Chief of Staff to CEO
3/2/2026
The Chief of Staff will serve as a strategic thought partner and operational leader to the CEO, ensuring alignment across critical company priorities and acting as the executive team's operating system to streamline communication and optimize decision-making. Key duties include supporting the CEO with strategy communication, managing executive team alignment, tracking strategic initiatives, and leading high-priority special projects on behalf of leadership.
Working Hours
40 hours/week
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Language
English
Visa Sponsorship
No
Key Responsibilities:
- Operate as a trusted thought partner and sounding board to the CEO.
- Act as a proxy in key meetings, making decisions and communicating feedback on behalf of the CEO.
- Manage and optimize the CEO’s time by evaluating priorities and absorbing or delegating initiatives as needed.
- Support the CEO with communication around company strategy and leadership decisions.
- Serve as a central coordination point for the executive team, ensuring alignment on top priorities, company goals, and strategic focus areas.
- Foster healthy cross-functional collaboration by surfacing friction points, facilitating issue resolution, and driving forward accountability.
- Monitor and track progress on strategic initiatives across the leadership team – identifying risks, flagging bottlenecks, and supporting timely course corrections.
- Lead the preparation and facilitation of executive team meetings and weekly standups to ensure structured discussion and effective outcomes.
- Lead or incubate high-priority initiatives on behalf of the CEO and executive team, often operating as a project manager or interim owner until the function is scaled or staffed.
- Serve as a strategic partner in executive planning offsites, leadership summits, and company-wide goal-setting efforts.
- 7-8 years of professional experience at top-performing organizations, broken down as follows
- 4 - 6 years in a top-tier management consulting or investment banking program with proven exposure to executive-level problem solving, cross-functional projects, and strategic planning
- 4 - 6 years in strategic or operational leadership roles at a top-tier, high-growth startup.
- Executive presence and sound judgment—trusted to represent the CEO and leadership team with integrity and maturity.
- Exceptional communication skills—can synthesize, simplify, and influence across audiences and formats.
- Systems thinker – skilled at structuring ambiguity, bringing order to chaos, and creating scalable frameworks that enable clarity and execution.
- Bias for action – proactively drives initiatives forward with urgency, accountability, and a focus on tangible outcomes.
- Operationally rigorous and detail-oriented – thrives on clarity, follow-through, and continuous improvement.
- Analytical thinker with a very high degree of acumen working with data and numbers.
- Emotionally intelligent and highly collaborative—builds trust across teams and adapts communication to different working styles.
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