# Chief of Staff, Engineering

**Company:** [Rula](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rula)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Business Operations
**Salary:** $225k – $281k/yr
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** AI Tools, Organizational Design, Workforce Planning, Change Management, Strategic Planning, Operating Plans, Cross-Functional Execution, Engineering Operations, Software Engineering, Technical Program Management
**Posted:** 2026-08-19

> Serves as a strategic partner to the Head of Engineering and leadership team, shaping operating rhythms, organizational priorities, and execution across a rapidly scaling software organization. Requires 12+ years of experience, technical organization experience, executive partnership, strong communication, and practical AI fluency.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior organizational leader and strategic partner to the Head of Engineering and Engineering Leadership Team.
- Shape how Engineering operates, makes decisions, and executes against critical goals.
- Own key operational rhythms and diagnose organizational friction.
- Design actionable plans for cross-functional execution and hand execution to accountable owners while tracking progress to completion.
- Translate company and technology strategy into organizational priorities, operating plans, and measurable outcomes.
- Improve organizational processes using modern tools and AI to reduce toil.
- Influence senior leaders, facilitate complex decisions, challenge assumptions constructively, and create stakeholder alignment.
- Turn unstructured challenges into clear, repeatable practices.

## Requirements
- 12+ years of related professional experience.
- Direct experience as an engineer, engineering manager, or technical program leader inside a software organization.
- Experience serving as a strategic partner or Chief of Staff to a CTO, Head of Engineering, VP of Engineering, or other senior technical executive.
- Proven ability to diagnose organizational or operational problems, design plans, and track execution.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience operating in fast-moving environments with high adaptability and resourcefulness.
- Ability to move between strategic thinking and hands-on execution.
- Personal fluency with AI tools and experience applying AI to improve an organizational process.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience in a Chief of Staff, Engineering Operations, or similar role reporting to a senior technical executive.
- Experience in a high-growth or rapidly scaling technology company.
- Experience in healthcare technology or another highly regulated or complex industry.
- Experience with organizational design, workforce planning, or change management and transformation initiatives.
- Prior individual contributor engineering experience writing and shipping code.

## Compensation and Benefits
- ATS-listed salary range: $225000-$281000.
- 100% remote work environment for employees based in the United States; currently not hiring in Hawaii.
- Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and FSA/HSA benefits.
- 401(k) plan access.
- Generous time-off policies, including two company-wide shutdown weeks each year for most employees.
- Paid parental leave for birthing, non-birthing, adopting, and fostering parents.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Quarterly department stipend.
- Community and employee resource groups.
- New-hire home office stipend and $50 monthly internet or cell phone stipend.
- Wellness initiatives and a $50 monthly wellness stipend.

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