Chief of Staff

Coca-Cola and Pepsi control a $1.5 trillion industry selling sugar water in plastic. We're replacing it. Starting from the workplace.

#2 fastest-growing tech company in the Netherlands (Deloitte Fast50, 2025). #30 in Europe (Sifted250).

We've mapped the milestones that define where this company needs to be in 18 months. Your job is to build the system that gets us there, and then adapt it for what comes next.

This is an operator role. You design the cadence, the boards, the KPIs, the accountability, and you keep the rhythm going.

You're a thought partner to the CEO. You ask the questions others skip. You spot the drift before it compounds. You challenge a senior leader's plan and the relationship comes out stronger, because the plan did.

1. Internal Operations

The COO owns how the company delivers to the outside world. You own how leadership runs the inside. Cycle after cycle.

• 5+ years in environments with serious operational rigor.

• Lean/Six Sigma background strongly preferred, Green Belt/Black Belt ideal. If you've used 5-whys, value stream mapping, or kaizen as practice and not vocabulary, say so concretely.

• You've been a CoS, founder's associate, or Strategic Ops lead at a scaling company. You've built management systems from zero or added meaningful improvements. Cadences, boards, KPI systems, RACIs. 

• Structured under pressure. When the plan breaks mid-quarter, you replan cleanly.

• High EQ in service of rigor. You deliver an uncomfortable truth to a C-level peer and they thank you for it. People loop you in because they trust the bar you hold, not because you're easy to work with. 

• You write clearly. You think in proofpoints and preconditions, not activities. You want to do this craft for years, not months. The role compounds. You should too.

A seat where the company is actually run, every cycle. Direct partnership with a CEO who values operational rigor as much as vision. Scope across product, GTM, ops, and people, growing as we do.

Why Aquablu?

🚆 Travel compensation >10km

📈 Equity through our Aquablu for All plan – because everyone shares in what we’re building

🌴 26 paid vacation days

👴 Pension Plan by Zwitserleven

☀️ Quarterly team events at our HQ in Amsterdam (Houthavens)

💧 Unlimited Aquablu (of course)

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