# Chief of Staff

**Company:** [Joyful Health](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/joyful-health)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Executive Leadership
**Salary:** $175k – $210k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Financial Modeling, Data Analysis, Project Management, Cross-Functional Coordination, Strategic Planning, Operations, Systems Building, Metrics & Dashboards, Board Communications, Hiring Support
**Posted:** 2026-02-05

> Acts as force multiplier for CEO, driving execution across priorities, cross-functional initiatives, and operations in fast-scaling healthcare fintech startup. Requires 7-10+ years experience, strong analytical and systems-building skills, high judgment.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Partner closely with the CEO as a thought partner on company-wide priorities, decision-making, and execution.
- Maintain full context on key initiatives, hires, deals, risks, and ensure nothing slips.
- Prepare for board meetings, leadership discussions, and high-stakes conversations.
- Draft internal and external communications on behalf of the CEO.
- Anticipate priorities, surface blockers, and help CEO stay focused.
- Own and drive cross-functional initiatives across product, engineering, RCM, GTM, and operations.
- Build systems to track, triage, and address important work.
- Coordinate projects, cut inefficiencies, translate strategy into plans with goals, timelines, owners.
- Unblock teams, resolve dependencies, maintain momentum.
- Step into ambiguous problems and drive solutions.
- Build and refine core operating rhythms (planning, goal-setting, meetings, retros).
- Stand up company-wide goals, metrics, scorecards, and dashboards.
- Identify needs for structure and design scalable systems.
- Bring analytical rigor to prioritization using data and financial insight.
- Jump into high-priority work, support senior hiring.

## Requirements

- 7–10+ years of experience, prior Chief of Staff preferred or similar roles (strategy & ops, consulting, investing, early-stage operator).
- Strong generalist with analytical depth, financial models, metrics, data-informed decisions.
- Thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
- Exceptional context switching between hiring, strategy, operations, execution.
- Strong judgment, discretion, high-trust.
- Exceptional communication in all mediums.
- Operations and systems builder.
- Ambitious, low-ego, highly proactive.
- High emotional intelligence and presence.
- Excellent judgment under ambiguity.

## Compensation

Base pay: $175,000 – $210,000 per year.

Full-time role, NYC-based, in office ~3 days per week.

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