Chief of Staff

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Austin, TX, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Information Technology • Productivity
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The Role
Serve as a strategic thought partner and force multiplier for the CEO. Lead cross-functional initiatives, product and vertical launches, strategic planning, executive communication, company updates, and leadership cadence. Translate product vision into actionable roadmaps, align teams, drive project execution, support investor relations, and temporarily own critical business functions. The role requires strong synthesis, communication, data fluency, and operational ownership in a remote, high-growth startup environment.
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About Workweek:

Workweek is revolutionizing how business leaders connect, learn, and operate by integrating distinct personalities, unparalleled expertise, and a vibrant community into a one-of-a-kind professional networking platform.

Our Approach:

Every social platform rewards the person with the most time to post. Expertise loses to volume, and the people actually running their companies get drowned out by people describing them from the outside.

Workweek is the opposite. We're the home for the practitioner creator, the operator who writes about the work while still doing it. That's why our readers trust what lands in their inbox. Today we have five networks covering healthcare, fintech, HR, marketing, and e-commerce, and more are coming.

That trust is what the rest of the business runs on. On the advertising side, a marketer hands us their target account list and we show them our coverage of it before they spend a dollar, then the engagement after. On the community side, we run professional memberships where leaders get peers worth knowing, a content library worth using, and tools that make their day-to-day easier.

We're five years in and just getting started.

About the role:

We are looking for a highly driven, organized, and strategic Chief of Staff to act as a true thought partner and force multiplier for our CEO. This is a senior, high-impact position where you will dive into messy, cross-functional problems. You will balance strategic planning with hands-on operational execution, drive special projects, and partner directly with the CEO to shape and communicate our product vision.

Core Objectives (Your Mandate)

If you join us, these will be your three primary goals for the first year:

  • Organize Key Initiatives: Bring structure to chaos. You will take our most critical company initiatives, organize them into actionable workstreams, assign clear ownership, and build the operational rhythm to ensure they cross the finish line.

  • Translate & Communicate Product Vision: Work closely with the CEO (who leads our product org) to distill complex product roadmaps and visions into clear, tangible communication for both internal teams and external stakeholders.

  • Drive Team Alignment & Updates: Act as the central nervous system for company information. You will own internal communications, executive updates, and All-Hands meetings to ensure the entire team knows exactly what we are building, why it matters, and how we are tracking against our goals.

Note: All Workweek employees may work remotely, all work must be done in English and availability to meet during the Central Time Zone workday is required.

What you'll do:

Special Projects & Growth

  • Launch & Incubation: Spearhead new vertical launches and new product launches from 0 to 1.

  • Key Project Management: Step in to lead high-priority, cross-functional projects when the business needs immediate execution and alignment.

  • External Representation: Drive the strategy and creation of Upfronts key external presentations, and support Investor Relations.

Executive Management

  • Leadership Team Member: Join our executive team meetings and ensure executive communication is carried through the company

  • Stakeholder Guidance: Work closely with key stakeholders across the business, providing strategic direction and input where needed to unblock teams and accelerate growth.

Roadmap & Planning

  • Strategic Planning & Execution: Translate high-level company goals into actionable milestones (e.g., OKRs, quarterly planning cycles).

  • Operational Rhythm: Run the leadership cadence. Set crisp agendas for executive meetings, capture decisions, assign DRIs (Directly Responsible Individuals), and drive follow-ups to completion.

  • Information Flow: Bridge the communication gap between the CEO and department heads to ensure top-down decisions cascade clearly and bottom-up feedback reaches the executive team.

  • Interim Leadership: Step in as a temporary owner for critical gaps (e.g., HR, Ops, Finance) until a dedicated leader is hired.

Qualifications:
  • Experience: 7+ years in management consulting, investment banking, venture capital, or a high-growth startup operations/strategy role.

  • Product Roadmap Partnership: Ability to work closely with the CEO to translate high-level vision into a tangible, executable product roadmap.

  • Internal Comms Mastery: You are an exceptional writer and speaker who can turn messy ideas into crisp, inspiring updates for the whole company.

  • Extreme Ownership: You have a "get shit done" mentality. You take low-ego ownership of both high-level strategy and unglamorous process-fixing.

  • Exceptional Synthesis: You can turn scattered Slack threads, conflicting opinions, and messy data into concise, one-page decision memos.

  • Data Fluency: Comfortable modeling, building lightweight dashboards, and reviewing KPIs to pressure-test business assumptions.

Benefits:
  • Competitive pay (we don't pay based on location, we assign value to the role)

  • Equity in Workweek

  • Remote operations with the ability to work in the time zone of your choice (or work IRL in our Austin, TX office)

  • Unlimited PTO with a minimum of 3 days/quarter used

  • 100% health insurance coverage, 75% coverage for dependents, and $150/month towards an HSA (or $150/month health stipend if insurance not used)

  • 120 days of parental leave to use within one year of childbirth (available 12 months after your start date and only available every 365 days)

  • 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match

  • $500 one-time stipend for any home office needs used after the first 90 days

  • 5-week sabbatical after 4 years on staff

  • 2 volunteering days per year

  • 1x/year in-person team retreat

  • $100/month book stipend

Note: At Workweek, we’re passionate about building a diverse team. We care deeply about diversity, equality, and inclusion and strive to build a culture where everyone, from any background, feels included, supported, and free to be themselves.

If your experience is this close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying. Experience comes in many forms – skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We know that diversity makes for the best problem-solving and creative thinking, which is why we’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage everyone to apply

*At this time we do not offer visa sponsorship or assistance.

Skills Required

  • 7+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, venture capital, or high-growth startup operations or strategy
  • Ability to partner with the CEO to translate high-level product vision into an executable roadmap
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills for company-wide updates and executive communications
  • Strong ownership and ability to manage both strategic initiatives and operational process improvements
  • Ability to synthesize scattered information, conflicting opinions, and data into concise decision memos
  • Data fluency, including financial or business modeling, lightweight dashboards, and KPI analysis
  • Availability to meet during the Central Time Zone workday
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The Company
HQ: Austin, Texas
80 Employees
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Workweek is building the next generation of professional networks. Imagine LinkedIn but built just for your profession. Everyone is verified, the conversations are actually helpful, and you’re surrounded by people who get it. It’s a place where you can learn from peers, speak the same language, and get better at your job — all while having fun. We’re making that a reality with some of the best creators in the game: Go-to-Millions with Ari Murray, Hospitalogy with Blake Madden, Safe Space with Hebba Youssef, Marketingland with Daniel Murray, Limited Supply with Nik Sharma, The Wolf of Franchises, and Fintech Takes with Alex Johnson.

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