Chief of Staff to the CEO

Role summary
You will translate the CEO’s priorities into execution across a startup, an agency, and board and advisory commitments. You will run the operating cadence, decision tracking, and cross-functional follow-through. This role is about ---------- ntum, clarity, and accountability.

Core responsibilities

Priorities and operating cadence
• Run weekly priorities, agenda, and tradeoff conversations with the CEO
• Maintain a rolling 2 to 4 week outlook (deadlines, board cycles, travel constraints)
• Produce a weekly exec briefing (what moved, what is stuck, decisions needed)

Action item ownership and follow-through
• Capture decisions and action items from key meetings, assign owners and dates
• Follow up with stakeholders, escalate risks, propose options and next steps
• Keep commitments moving without the CEO having to chase

Cross entity coordination
• Coordinate work across entities, agency operations, startup, boards, advisory
• Ensure key deliverables are prepared for board meetings, investors, clients
• Improve the system over time, lighter process, clearer ownership, fewer surprises

Communications support (as needed)
• Draft high-stakes internal notes, stakeholder updates
• Partner with EA so the CEO is prepared and briefed

What success looks like (first 60 to 90 days)
• CEO priorities become a visible plan with owners and dates
• Stakeholders deliver on time with fewer reminders from the CEO
• Risks are flagged early with recommended tradeoffs
• Board and client deliverables are consistently prepared and polished

Requirements
• Experience in founder support, chief of staff, program leadership, or strategy ops
• Strong executive writing and concise synthesis
• Comfort driving accountability with senior stakeholders
• Strong judgment and discretion
• Pacific Time overlap

Working model
• Must overlap meaningfully with Pacific Time
• Tools: Notion or Asana, Slack, Google Workspace