Chief of Staff

What you'll do:

The role will continuously evolve to partner with the CEO and leadership team on the most important priorities across the company. That will include work across several categories:
 
1. Drive Execution of Strategic Initiatives
2. Own the agenda, preparation, and follow-through for key initiative meetings, ensuring clear owners, decisions, timelines, follow-up action items, and accountability come out of every meeting
3. Drive cross-functional coordination across execution of the strategy; ensure involvement of the right stakeholders and surface and ensure resolution of dependencies and blockersTrack commitments made at the leadership level and proactively follow up and ensure accountability; flag what’s at risk early before it becomes a problem so we can exceed our goals
4. Run the Strategic Operating and Planning Cadence
5. Partner with the CEO and leadership team to design and drive quarterly, bi-annual, and annual planning processes
6. Own the execution of key cross-functional leadership meetings and updates — ensuring the right data, analysis, and pre-reads are in place and circulated in a timely manner to drive honest and open discussion and real decision-making, not just status reporting
7. Continuously improve the operating rhythm of the leadership team so meetings are disciplined, follow-through is consistent, and the team operates with both thoughtful planning and urgency in execution
8. Drive Company-wide Strategic Alignment
9. Partner with the CEO on all-hands presentations and company-wide updates, focusing on the articulation of strategic priorities and goals, from first draft through delivery
10. Review and refine leadership team communications regarding major strategic initiatives to ensure alignment with the company’s goals and strategy, and to drive clear and thoughtful prioritization.
11. Bridge information gaps between functions and levels of the organization specifically in regard to progress against goals, ensuring the right people understand the “why” behind strategic decisions
12. Support Board Engagement
13. Partner with the CEO to prepare for board meetings, coordinating across leadership for materials, ensuring narrative consistency, and managing the end-to-end board prep process
14. Own the logistics and communication cadence around board and investor interactions
15. Prepare briefing materials and pre-reads that reflect the CEO’s priorities and point of view accurately
16. Own Strategic Projects
17. Personally lead specific high-priority projects in support of the company’s strategy and objectives, from scoping through completion
18. Work directly with leadership team members to drive execution, resolve blockers, and deliver outcomes
19. Take on a rotating portfolio of work as the company’s priorities evolve
20. Provide CEO Leverage
21. Prepare the CEO for high-stakes meetings, board interactions, and external conversations
22. Attend meetings as the CEO’s proxy where appropriate; represent the CEO’s point of view accurately and credibly
23. Systematically identify and absorb work that doesn’t require CEO-level involvement — expanding the pace and scope of what the CEO can accomplish

What you'll bring:

1. Experience
2. 5 - 10 years experience, which must include management consulting and may also include  strategy, operations, or prior Chief of Staff roles
3. Has operated in a fast-paced environment and worked with and influenced senior stakeholders
4. Experience owning cross-functional programs or initiatives end-to-end
5. Hands-on experience with AI tools and strong interest in building deep AI expertise and applying it across every dimension of the role
6. Capabilities
7. Experience using AI and incorporating it into how you work, with real eagerness for continuously understanding best practices and how you can leverage it further
8. Exceptional written and verbal communication. Writes at a high level and consistently raises the quality of others’ communications
9. Strong operating instincts. Knows how to get things done across an organization without formal authority
10. Proven ability to build trusting relationships and operate with honesty and integrity
11. High judgment and discretion. Handles sensitive information and navigates political dynamics with maturity
12. Systems thinker. Sees the whole picture, identifies leverage points, builds processes that stick rather than one-off fixes
13. Highly organized without being rigid. Can hold many moving parts without losing sight of what actually matters
14. Comfortable operating from a customer-first perspective and working iteratively as the strategy evolves
15. Detail oriented. Gets the small things right and doesn’t let them fall through the cracks
16. Character
17. Willing to push back at any level of the organization. Focused on what’s right, not what’s easy
18. Low ego, high standards. Cares about outcomes more than credit or checking the box
19. Energized by ambiguity and a role that will evolve. Not looking for a prescribed job description