Chief of Staff @ Fintech Startup

Job Title: Chief of Staff

Location: Mill Valley, CA

Salary: Competitive Salary with Equity and Token upside

Our client is enabling global social and economic mobility across global credit markets. Enabling the efficient origination, distribution, and servicing of debt across the globe ensures the next billion people can have access to capital to improve their quality of life. They utilize blockchain infrastructure to manage end-to-end credit transactions in and across emerging markets, and they need a Chief of Staff to support operations.

The right person for this job is fanatical about the mission of economic empowerment and thrives on dynamic problem solving.

Given the hands-on nature of supporting global operations, this role requires in-person presence and flexibility to work alongside their founder across the world and at all times of day. In exchange for this commitment, your career and impact will accelerate faster than you can imagine.

Position Overview:

The Chief of Staff (CoS) supports the CEO across all aspects of the business—there is no goal too big and no task too small. In short, the key responsibility is ensuring that corporate priorities are informing team progress and that information is flowing efficiently across the business, as well as ensuring that as priorities shift, everyone is in the loop and working together.

In addition to compensation, whoever is in this role will receive mentorship from top executives, exposure to the inner workings of global fintech, and the chance to own and drive business results. The CoS will be surrounded by brilliant and collegial people, ensuring there is never a dull moment.

Additionally, the CoS will be focused on time management and comparative advantage of the CEO and other executives at our client. Ensuring the CEO and other leaders can operate in their zone of excellence as often as possible, you will be the key to allocation of resources and attention.

Key Responsibilities:

• Communicate both to the CEO and on behalf of the CEO to all key stakeholders on priorities, actions, and insights daily.

• Perform triage on issues and tasks, prioritizing and solving problems quickly and effectively, including looping in the right teammates across the organization to help.

• Assist in the development and execution of strategic initiatives from start to finish, ensuring alignment with the company’s goals and objectives.

• Oversee special projects and initiatives, providing leadership and guidance to cross-functional teams.

• Prepare and review reports, presentations, and other documents for the CEO.

• Manage the CEO’s schedule, ensuring efficient use of time and prioritizing critical tasks and meetings.

• Foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, acting as a liaison between the CEO and other parties.

• Manage every day as a new opportunity to grow both the business and your own skills and expertise.

Qualifications:

• A growth mindset

• Ability to get things done fast

• Comfortable executing in an environment of ambiguity

• Extreme work ethic

• Detail oriented and diligent with to-do lists across the organization

• Demonstrated ability to work independently and to work well with teammates

• Flexibility and strong comfort with a lack of routine

• High level of emotional intelligence and situational awareness

• Excellent written communication across text, Slack, Telegram, email, and memos, and ability to strike the right voice and tone to different audiences

Preferred Qualifications:

• Fluent in French, both written and verbal

• Experience working closely with C-suite executives

• Background in financial services and/or blockchain a plus

• World-class at written, internal communications

• Experience with Notion

• You’ve worked in a high intensity environment and excelled. You may have been in law, business, finance, crypto, or another field for several years, and the expectations of you were high and you excelled against them.