Chief of Staff to CEO

What You’ll Own

Strategic Prioritization & Focus

• Partner directly with the CEO to identify and sequence the company’s highest-leverage initiatives
• Continuously assess what matters most — and redirect attention when needed
• Surface risks, bottlenecks, and emerging opportunities early
• Ensure leadership conversations translate into clear execution plans
• Protect company focus by driving ruthless prioritization

High-Priority Project Leadership

• Independently lead mission-critical cross-functional initiatives
• Drive alignment across Product, Engineering, Sales, Ops, and Clinical
• Frame ambiguous problems into structured workstreams
• Model trade-offs and make data-informed recommendations
• Push projects to completion with speed and accountability

Operating in Ambiguity

• Bring structure where none exists
• Build lightweight systems that scale
• Clarify decision rights and accountability
• Operate effectively without full information
• Make forward progress while details are still forming

Cross-Team Collaboration & Alignment

• Act as connective tissue across departments
• Identify misalignment before it becomes friction
• Ensure handoffs are clean and execution velocity remains high
• Facilitate high-quality decision-making across teams
• Help leaders stay focused on outcomes over activity

Leadership Leverage

• Prepare internal, board, and investor materials
• Synthesize complex data into clear insights
• Ensure the right conversations happen at the right time
• Hold teams accountable to commitments
• Increase the output and effectiveness of the CEO and leadership team

Customer & Market Immersion

• Spend time in clinics, factories, hospitals, and warehouses
• Stay deeply connected to customer pain points
• Translate frontline insights into strategic initiatives
• Support high-stakes partnerships and enterprise relationships

What We’re Looking For

Core Experience

• 5–10 years in high-growth tech, venture, consulting, banking, product, operations, or similar high-performance environments
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Proven ability to operate in ambiguous environments
• Demonstrated success working with little direction and high autonomy
• Experience supporting senior leadership or founders is a plus
• Healthcare, hardware/software, or AI exposure is a plus

Strengths

• Elite prioritization skills
• Structured thinker who can decompose messy problems quickly
• High agency and extreme ownership mentality
• Calm under pressure
• Exceptional communicator (written and verbal)
• Able to zoom from 30,000-foot strategy to tactical execution seamlessly
• Strong cross-functional collaborator
• Biased toward action

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience at a venture-backed, high-growth startup
• Exposure to product development cycles
• Financial modeling or analytical background
• Experience working directly with executives or boards

Primary Responsibilities

• Serve as CEO’s right hand across strategic and operational initiatives
• Identify and prioritize the most pressing company issues
• Lead high-impact cross-functional projects from start to finish
• Bring clarity and structure to ambiguous initiatives
• Ensure leadership focus remains on highest-leverage opportunities
• Drive accountability across teams
• Strengthen cross-team communication and collaboration
• Increase organizational velocity and execution quality

What You’ll Get

• Competitive cash compensation + meaningful equity
• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Relocation bonus (if needed)
• Direct partnership with founders and leadership
• Exposure to Fortune 50 executives, investors, and healthcare leaders
• A front-row seat — and steering wheel — to scaling a category-creating company
• Free custom insoles (of course)