Newlab is scaling our venture platform globally across geographies that have strategic advantages in our core sectors of focus: Mobility, Energy, and Materials. The Strategy team is recruiting a Chief of Staff to help drive the business in this accelerated phase of growth. The Chief of Staff will serve as a force multiplier for the team, leveraging a mix of strategy, project management, communications, and administrative skills to advance key strategic growth initiatives.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Oversee a portfolio of strategic initiatives and deals
- Work across the portfolio to advance strategy development and stand-up of Newlab in new markets around the world
- Drive coordination and accountability across internal teams to maintain pace of execution
- Manage key activities across the portfolio to ensure time is being allocated effectively against strategic priorities
- Continuously identify opportunities to streamline processes and implement new frameworks for collaboration, decision-making, and performance tracking
- Serve as a critical liaison with internal and external stakeholders, managing information flows and ensuring consistent strategic alignment
- Organize and support the execution of high-level meetings including setting agendas, preparing briefings, and ensuring follow-through on action items
- Prepare and disseminate internal and external communications, reports, and presentations
ATTRIBUTES + SKILLS
- Ability to manage multiple complex projects and initiatives simultaneously
- Natural ability to foresee potential risks and devise strategies to mitigate them
- High emotional intelligence and ability to detect and translate subtext to drive decision making
- Strong personal commitment to excellence
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Comfort operating in a dynamic and high-velocity work environment
- Strong bias for action and desire to take ownership of work while being team-oriented
- Low ego, high-integrity, and strong desire to win
EXPERIENCE
- 5-7 years of experience in strategy and operations within consulting, advisory, investment banking, venture capital or high-growth startup environments
$150,000-185,000 USD
Comprehensive benefits
Equity
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What We Do
Newlab advances technologies that support the health of our planet.
We act as a facilitator, connector, and translator for our community of experts and innovators, helping to build, test, and scale world-changing ideas through investment, venture building, and structured collaboration with industry and government partners.
Inspired by its rich history, we envisioned a way to return
the building to relevance by championing entrepreneurship, innovation, and frontier technologies that transform infrastructure and build a more resilient, sustainable world.
We are now home to over 155 companies, solving the world’s biggest challenges with leaders and experts across industries and cities
