ElevenX — Holding Company

Chief of Staff — Strategy, Technology
& Operations

Draft role brief v1 — prepared for Ajit Singh, COO  ·  August 9, 2026

Role Snapshot

Executive Summary

ElevenX's mandate — found and exit 1,000 companies in a decade —
only works if the operating and technology backbone underneath each company is
standardized, not reinvented per venture. This Chief of Staff role is built for
that job: it is a strategy–technology–operations hybrid, not an EA-track chief
of staff. The mandate is to give you (and, through you, Anjli) leverage across
a multiplying portfolio by owning three things simultaneously — the holdco's
strategic operating cadence (planning, board prep, portfolio-wide reporting),
the shared technology and security backbone every new company inherits on day
one, and the governance playbooks that make carve-outs, integrations, and
new-co formation repeatable rather than bespoke. In effect, the role
systematizes the carve-out/TSA/governance discipline you built at OculusIT and
Cioniq into infrastructure embedded in ElevenX itself.

Core Responsibilities

1.
Strategy & Portfolio Operations

•      Own the holdco's strategic
planning cadence — quarterly OKRs, annual planning, and board-package
preparation across all portfolio companies.

•      Build and maintain a
standardized, portfolio-wide KPI/reporting rollup (one system of record across
QuickLaunch, Unifyed, BlackBeltHelp, and future entities), rather than each
portco reporting in its own format.

•      Support diligence and stand-up
playbooks for new company formation or acquisition — Day-1/Day-100 plans,
carve-out and TSA-style transition templates drawn from proven playbooks.

•      Prepare board materials,
investor updates, and COO/GP briefings; run the follow-through loop on
commitments made in those forums.

2.
Technology & Systems

•      Define and govern the shared
technology stack every portfolio company inherits — identity/SSO, data
infrastructure, security baseline, core finance/HR/ops tooling.

•      Own AI and automation adoption
across the holdco — identify where AI compresses operating overhead across
portfolio companies (this is a direct lever on the AI-moat dimension of
ElevenX's own investment thesis).

•      Partner with portfolio-company
technical leads on architecture standards and security posture
(SOC2/GDPR/GLBA-grade readiness) so new companies aren't each solving
compliance from scratch.

3.
Operations & Governance

•      Design and run a
cross-portfolio governance framework — decision rights, reporting lines,
escalation paths — modeled on the governance discipline already proven in your
Cioniq practice.

•      Standardize operating playbooks
for hiring, finance ops, vendor management, and M&A carve-out/integration
so they're reusable across ventures rather than rebuilt each time.

•      Run cross-portfolio vendor
consolidation and cost-optimization initiatives.

•      Own special projects and
rapid-response initiatives on your behalf and Anjli's.

4.
Chief of Staff Core

•      Run the COO's operating rhythm
— prioritization, meeting cadence, and follow-through on commitments.

•      Act as a trusted proxy for the
COO in cross-functional and portfolio-company-facing settings.

•      Handle confidential and
sensitive initiatives — including support for the concurrent COO/CFO/CVCO
executive search.

Success Metrics

Ideal Candidate Profile

•      8–15 years combining strategy/portfolio
company experience with genuine technology and systems fluency — this is not a
pure EA-track chief of staff.

•      Prior experience inside a
multi-entity environment: PE portfolio operations, venture studio, multi-brand
holdco, or an M&A-heavy operating role.

•      Technically literate enough to
hold their own on identity/security/data architecture decisions without needing
to be a hands-on engineer.

•      Demonstrated ability to build
governance and reporting systems from scratch, not just administer existing
ones.

•      High agency, low ego —
comfortable operating as connective tissue across GP, COO, CFO, CVCO, and
portfolio-company leadership.

•      Discretion with confidential,
board-level, and executive-search-sensitive material.