Chief of Staff to the CEO

⭐ About daydream

daydream builds growth marketing playbooks for the world’s fastest growing companies.

Note: This role requires candidates to be in-person, in-office 3 days per week in our Hayes Valley, San Francisco office.

More about daydream:

• We believe the future of growth marketing is one where companies pay for outcomes, rather than tools. Today, we leverage a combination of AI-enabled services + software to execute SEO growth playbooks for companies like Clay, Descript, and Beacons and dozens of others. In the future, we'll expand our capabilities across the entire growth marketing stack, encompassing all essential customer acquisition channels.

  We've raised $6.2M from leading investors like First Round Capital, Basis Set Ventures, WndrCo, SOMA Capital and current and former Heads of Growth at companies like Notion, Airtable, Webflow and Dropbox as well as notable angels like Lenny Rachitsky and Eli Schwartz, Author of Product-Led SEO.
  

  🔧 The problem we’re trying to solve

  Every company needs to do two things:

  1. Build a product.

  2. Acquire customers.

  There are three ways to acquire customers — sales, product-led growth, and growth marketing. Of these three, growth marketing is particularly hard to staff for because great internal talent is find (ex. in SEO, there are probably < 20 people who we would consider world-class), and time-consuming to ramp.

  Then there’s the agencies, but agencies are often slow, lack strong technical talent, and in general are associated with poor quality of outcomes.

  🧑‍💻 How we’re solving this problem

  daydream is different — we’ve built a vertically integrated software + services stack with a singular goal in mind — deliver outstanding outcomes for every customer we service, repeatedly and consistently in a fraction of the time they expect. While we’ve started with SEO, we expect to expand to all other major growth marketing channels over the near future.

🧔🏽‍♂️ Who you’ll be working with

Hi there! 👋🏽 I’m Thenuka, the co-founder and CEO at daydream. This is a JD to be my Chief of Staff! Here’s a bit about me:

• Before founding daydream, I served as CEO of Flixed, where we drove 100K+ sign-ups to streaming brands like Disney, Hulu, HBO, and others purely using programmatic SEO. In many ways, this was a precursor to daydream. Hear the story about how my experience runni

• Previously, I was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Hustle Fund and Chief of Staff to the COO at Pango, an Accel-backed cybersecurity company generating $100M+ in annual revenue.

• My work philosophy centers on quality. I find my deepest satisfaction in creating products and experiences that redefine expectations, rather than engaging in busywork, checking things off for the sake of it, or maintaining appearances of "being productive."

• While daydream's rapid scaling and high performance standards remain priorities, I'm committed to fostering a culture built on respect, trust, and curiosity rather than fear.

• This approach requires dedicating time to deep, focused work on select high-impact areas—a key reason I'm hiring a Chief of Staff.

• From a communication standpoint, I prefer direct feedback, batched async communication, and in-person meetings for more strategic discussions.

• Some personal tidbits: I lived in a Zen temple for 2 years and studied Mandarin Chinese for over 5 years (ask me about competing in a Chinese singing contest!).

• Beyond work, I enjoy reading, walking, and exploring San Francisco's diverse restaurant scene.

👷🏻‍♀️ What you’ll be doing

As Chief of Staff to the CEO, your time will be spent across three key areas:

• Lead all special projects (70%): You will be the designated lead on a broad class of initiatives described as “special projects” — these will typically be company-inflecting initiatives that you’ll tackle hand-in-hand with me, the co-founder and CEO. You’ll need to be skilled at the 0 → 1 phase, after which you’ll hand off each project to a dedicated owner. Examples of special projects include:

  • Running point on our in-person GTM efforts, and create a dinner series for CMOs.

  • Build a network of other AI x GTM founders that we can co-promote events with.

• Network management (20%): You’ll be responsible for leveraging our investor network to accelerate projects throughout daydream and satisfy key asks, as well as handling investor updates + communications.

• Keep me unblocked (20%): You’ll be in my inbox, an