Chief of Staff

Hi, my name is Egwin. I’m the founding CEO of Panenco and I’m looking for an outstanding Chief of Staff to help me out in preparing Panenco for the next phase of its growth journey. Initially, ChatGPT drafted this vacancy, but I decided to give it a more personal spin.

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Job title: Chief of Staff

Company: Panenco

Website: www.panenco.com

Location: hybrid work policy (office in Leuven, Belgium + flexible remote work)

Employment type: full-time

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About Panenco:

For the past 10 years -ever since I graduated university at KU Leuven in Belgium-, my colleagues and I have been pouring our hearts and souls into the buildout of our digital product studio, Panenco. We’re a team of 35 good-natured and entrepreneurial product managers, software engineers and designers, working shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients on product innovations and technical refactoring trajectories. We do the heavy lifting behind the scenes.

Where we are & where we’re headed:

• Diverse client and product portfolio
• High-performing team of 35 people (PM/EM, software engineers and designers)
• Flat and effective organizational structure
• Deep expertise and proven track record in public cloud, IoT and SaaS
• Refined delivery model that is aligned with our clients in a spirit of true co-creation
• Stable financial and operational basis, incl ISO27001 certification

We’re well positioned for the next frontier in our industry: moving from a SaaS product paradigm towards embedded AI assistants and eventually autonomous AI agents. We have everything in place to assist ambitious clients in their (AI) productization trajectories, touching the entire product development stack including UI/UX, full-stack development, cloud architecture, and security. Delivering significant product value in short, iterative cycles.

Your role:

In your role as Chief of Staff you’ll be the right-hand person to our CEO to jointly define and operationalise the next drivers of growth on overall company level as well as for the products in our portfolio. Your responsibilities will include a.o.:

• Company and product strategy
• Refining and safeguarding our product development methodology
• Customer relations and new business development
• Knowledge management and internal knowledge distribution
• Thought leadership, communication and external representation
• Facilitating advisory board meetings & topical roundtable conversations

You will be given a great deal of autonomy and an always-open line to myself and our operations manager, Koen Verschooten as well as our product- and engineering managers. In return we expect you to come with fresh ideas, energy and inspiration every day, always representing the firm faithfully and knowledgeably. 

About you:

You have a proven track record in (digital) strategy consulting or an equivalent role and you’re ready for a new phase in your career where you can focus more on creativity and action. Key character traits we’re looking for:

• Entrepreneurial
• Intellectually curious
• Genuine and humble

We offer:‍

• Fair compensation with performance-based upside
• Challenging and diverse work assignments
• Rational remote work habits (offices in Leuven and Antwerpen)
• Wide variety of responsibilities & great autonomy
• Room to experiment and make mistakes
• Rapid learning curve in new technological domains
• A prominent seat at the table

Apply:

Our whole team is ready to work hard and build products to be truly proud of. If you’re up for the challenge, we’re ready to give you a prominent position to play a key role in the next phases of our growth. Let’s build! 🚀

If you have any further questions about this vacancy or our way of working, please never hesitate to reach out to egwin.avau@panenco.com (no recruiters please).