Chief of Staff – Chairman
Location
United States
Posted
6 days ago
Salary
Not specified
Bachelor Degree7 yrs expEnglish
Job Description
• Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner to the Chairman, helping shape priorities, evaluate opportunities, and support informed decision-making across businesses and projects.
• Translate high-level vision into clear plans, timelines, structures, and next steps that drive measurable progress.
• Anticipate needs, identify blind spots, and proactively surface insights or recommendations to keep initiatives on track.
• Lead AI-enabled initiatives from concept to live deployment, ensuring measurable business impact.
• Design, prototype, and implement AI workflows, automation systems, and operational tools that increase leverage and speed across ventures.
• Implement systems, processes, and tools that improve workflow, eliminate inefficiencies, and optimize the Chairman’s time.
• Oversee information flow to and from the Chairman, ensuring the right inputs reach the right people at the right moment.
• Establish operating rhythms, including dashboards, reviews, reporting structures, and communication cadences across ventures.
• Establish aggressive execution timelines and hold teams accountable to them.
• Drive a high-urgency operating cadence with tight feedback loops, clear ownership, and minimal bureaucracy.
• Escalate risks immediately and directly when deliverables or response times fall short.
• Lead high-impact projects from concept through execution, coordinating across teams, partners, and external vendors.
• Manage special initiatives related to new business development, investment diligence, strategic partnerships, and corporate innovation.
• Track progress, risks, deliverables, and KPIs, ensuring alignment with the Chairman’s goals and expectations.
• Act as an extension of the Chairman in select meetings, communications, and negotiations, ensuring seamless representation and continuity.
• Prepare briefs, talking points, memos, and follow-ups for internal and external engagements.
• Help maintain and strengthen relationships with senior executives, partners, investors, boards, founders, and strategic collaborators.
• Produce executive-level summaries, recommendations, presentations, and research that support strategic choices.
• Synthesize information across businesses, markets, and teams into concise, actionable insights.
• Drive follow-through to ensure decisions become outcomes.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Communications, Public Policy, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
- 7 to 12 years of experience supporting a senior executive, founder, principal, or chairman across multiple ventures or a complex operating environment.
- Demonstrated experience building or implementing real AI workflows, automation systems, or AI-enabled operational tools—not just experimentation or prompt usage.
- Proven record operating as a strategic generalist and project leader with exceptional judgment.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment with shifting priorities.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with a polished, executive presence.
- Highly organized, detail-intensive, and able to manage complex workflows across many concurrent initiatives.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize complexity quickly.
- High integrity, emotional intelligence, and discretion in all interactions.
- Advanced proficiency in productivity platforms, project management tools, and modern tech solutions that enhance executive efficiency.
- Resourceful, proactive, and unflappable under pressure.