Chief of Staff to the CEO

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Palo Alto, CA, USA
In-Office
Cloud • Natural Language Processing • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
Nightfall enables organizations to protect their sensitive data with an easy to use, effective cloud platform.
The Role

About Nightfall:

Nightfall is the AI-native, unified data loss prevention and insider risk management platform that protects sensitive data across SaaS apps, GenAI tools, email, endpoint devices, and more. Hundreds of customers, spanning AI innovators to top 10 banks, trust Nightfall to detect and stop data exfiltration at scale. Nightfall enables organizations to innovate freely without the risks of losing intellectual property or exposing customer data. Our agentic platform helps security teams regain their time by putting data loss prevention on autopilot. With automatic remediation, security violations can be resolved automatically before they become incidents, and end-users can be automatically trained and coached in the moment to self-heal violations that they introduce.

Nightfall is backed by leading VC firms including Bain Capital Ventures (Enrique Salem - former CEO of Symantec), Venrock (early investors in Cloudflare), WestBridge Capital, Pear VC (early investors in Dropbox and Doordash), and a cadre of cybersecurity leaders including Frederic Kerrest (founder of Okta), Maynard Webb (former COO of eBay), Ryan Carlson (President of Chainguard), Kevin Mandia (founder of Mandiant), and many others.

About the role:

Nightfall AI is seeking a motivated and hungry individual to join our team in a high-impact Chief of Staff role. In this position, you will work directly with the founders and report to the CEO, playing a pivotal part in supporting the company's most critical initiatives. This is a cross-functional role spanning go-to-market, operations, and product/engineering. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, crave exposure to a variety of business functions, and are eager to drive real impact, we want to hear from you.

As Chief of Staff, you'll innovate new programs from the ground up, collaborate across departments, and find ways to leverage as much AI as possible across the organization

Responsibilities
  • Understand all departments and their respective people, goals, and projects; Jump in and fill to move key priorities forward; Streamline processes and identify opportunities for improvement

  • Drive strategic revenue operations by partnering with GTM leadership to optimize sales strategy, renewals, planning, forecasting, compensation, enablement, and efficiency, while identifying growth opportunities and streamlining processes to maximize revenue impact

  • Drive operational excellence and culture by managing key people initiatives and cross-functional collaboration to enhance employee experience and organizational effectiveness

  • Take ownership of preparing and delivering board materials and all-hands meetings

  • Execute ad hoc projects as directed by the founders

  • Innovate new tools, processes, campaigns, and growth strategies from the ground up especially leveraging AI; Scope and deliver proof of concepts and bring new ideas to fruition from start to finish

  • Ensure information moves fluidly across the organization; Prepare briefings for all meetings; Transfer knowledge from meetings to appropriate team members; Help build systems to share information and to institutionalize knowledge gained

  • Refine and communicate founder priorities or company positioning to others in the company and in the market

  • Help structure deals and diligence potential partnership and investment opportunities

Qualifications
  • Experience in revenue operations, management consulting, private equity, venture capital, or in a previous Chief of Staff or General Manager role.

  • Technical background or comfort with technical content.

  • Strong multitasking skills and comfort with ambiguity.

  • Proficiency with modern productivity and collaboration tools.

  • Intellectual curiosity about data security and AI.

  • Willingness to make recommendations and decisions in the face of incomplete information.

  • Ability to bring structure and deliver results on open-ended projects with limited guidance.

  • Comfortable with contracts and negotiations.

  • Effective, precise, and concise communication skills.

  • High attention to detail, precision, and a data-driven mindset.

Bonus Points

  • Previous experience working at a cybersecurity SaaS startup

  • You're excited to have tons of autonomy and responsibility right out the gate

Environment

Nightfall AI takes pride in being an equal-opportunity employer. We value a diverse and global talent pool and the collaboration that results from having a diverse and inclusive team. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. Our hiring decisions are based exclusively on merit, qualifications, and business needs.

Compensation

Employee compensation will be determined based on interview performance, level of experience, specialization of skills, and market rate. During the offer discussion, your recruiter will review the finalized base salary, bonus (for applicable roles), benefits & perks, and stock options as they’ll be reflected in the offer letter.

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Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

Nightfall is a cybersecurity startup dedicated to helping organizations secure and manage their sensitive data. As a leading enterprise technology company, our product affects the personal data that people entrust businesses to store & process with care every day. Critical data in modern organizations is often sprayed across a broad set of cloud data silos, and it’s a herculean task for security & compliance teams to monitor, manage, and protect this highly sensitive data. Via machine learning, our product makes it easy for organizations to discover, classify, and protect this sensitive data across their cloud footprint - such as their corporate SaaS, data infrastructure, and even their own apps. In doing so, we prevent data leakage, provide unprecedented data visibility & protection across the cloud, and enable compliance. We're a technology startup founded in San Francisco, well-funded by leading institutional investors like Bain and Venrock, and a cadre of security & IT leaders from Okta, Salesforce, Atlassian, Splunk, FireEye, and more. Learn more on our website www.nightfall.ai or by reaching out via email at [email protected].

Why Work With Us

Our team operates with flexibility, inclusivity, and empathy. We work together from across multiple time zones and regions. We value and encourage diversity and unique perspectives. We care and support each other as we work together towards our shared vision.

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