Chief of Staff

About Sweav

Sweav is a fast-growing tech platform and community, connecting A-player freelance strategy and M&A professionals with clients and projects.

Our purpose is to empower these A-players to take ownership of their time and career. So they can work where they make the biggest impact — and be a more productive member of society.

At the same time, we make it accessible for clients to work with these A-players. With a more flexible, human, pragmatic and cost-effective model than the traditional professional services firms.

Since launching in 2022, we’ve grown to a community of 350 freelancers and over 400 clients across private equity, corporates and scale-ups. Sweav is currently with a team of 18.

About the job

Sweav has been growing like crazy, with 100% YoY since its inception four years ago. In 2026, we expect to grow with another 60-70%. However, this growth won't last forever as the addressable market of our niche will reach its limit at some point.

To continue Sweav's growth pace in the future, we want to start expanding our addressable market. That's where you come in.

As Chief of Staff, you work directly with the founders to drive Sweav’s growth beyond its current business. Think geographic expansion (UK, Nordics), new categories (Legal, Finance) and new propositions.

It’s an exciting role – but not an easy one. You’ll be building new markets from the ground up, experimenting with different go-to-market approaches, testing product-market fit and channel-market fit, and figuring out what works (and what doesn’t) before scaling.

That means reaching out to new clients and freelancers who don’t know us yet, running experiments, iterating on our proposition, and creating traction without big budgets or existing brand awareness.

If you enjoy that kind of challenge, you’ll love it here.

What you’ll be doing

Drive international and category expansion

• Identify product-market fit and scalable routes-to-market for new countries and categories

• Design and run growth experiments (channels, partnerships, positioning, pricing)

• Develop and execute go-to-market strategies for new markets

• Localize the Sweav proposition, positioning, and technology

• Work closely with sales, marketing, and tech to iterate and scale what works

• Become the main point of contact for these new markets

Build new propositions

• Help design and refine new Sweav offerings

• Test new propositions in the market and validate product-market fit

• Lead the implementation and rollout of new propositions once validated

What we're looking for

The ideal Chief of Staff has the analytical brainpower of a strategy consultant, feels comfortable with (lots of) ambiguity and embraces the start-up grind of getting things done.

Must-haves

• 3-4+ years’ experience in top-tier strategy consulting (e.g. McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Roland Berger, Strategy&, OC&C, or comparable firms)

• Strong appetite for dirty hands

• Strong commercial instinct

• Highly self-starting and grinding mentality

• Comfortable operating with a lot of freedom and ambiguity

• Willingness to travel occasionally (Belgium/UK/Nordics)

• Fluent in English

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in a start-up or scale-up environment

• An entrepreneurial background (side projects, own company, unconventional experiences)

• Previous exposure to growth or business development

• Experience working internationally

What we offer

• The chance to truly build something meaningful in a fast growing, yet profitable, stable scale-up

• A stepping stone toward a future commercial leadership or MT role

• Direct exposure to founders and strategic decision-making

• High autonomy and responsibility from day one

• A young, informal, and entrepreneurial culture - no politics

• Opportunity to build a strong network of high profile clients and freelancers

Practicalities

• Full-time position

• Based in Amsterdam

• Maximum 1 day per week working from home

• Possibility to work remote for maximum 5 weeks per year

• 25 vacation days (+ opportunity to buy 5 additional days)

• Cool office in the center of Amsterdam

• Free healthy lunch

Compensation

• Competitive salary: approximately €7.500 – €9.000 gross per month (incl. holiday allowance), depending on experience

• After one year: equity package (Stock Appreciation Rights, SARs) with substantial upside potential down the line

• Pension contribution

The process

• Apply below before May 1st.

• Short introduction call with Marleen Verweij (People Experience Lead) - week of 27 April - May 1st.

• Interview with Thijmen Kaster and Joeri Schouten (Founders) - week of May 4th.

• Offer.

• Start: June - July