About the role

  • Chief of Staff supporting CEO at Zanskar, a geothermal energy startup. Leading strategic operations to enhance organizational efficiency and achieve ambitious energy goals.

Responsibilities

  • Executive meetings: You will lead and improve executive preparation and communication from board meetings to weekly all-hands. You will ensure the CEO and stakeholders are ready for key meetings and may stand-in for the CEO if required.
  • Ops visibility & operating model: Scaling a growing company requires prioritization and clear communication up, down, and across the company. A major part of success will be increasing data availability and visibility to key stakeholders, especially the executive team. You will build clarity into the operating model to improve execution.
  • Company policy: Help CEO and co-founders create, revise, and refine company-wide policies or frameworks ranging from hiring to working norms to performance management.
  • Special projects: You may be asked to launch new initiatives necessary for the company when there is no clear functional leader.

Requirements

  • Quick learner: Rapidly ramps on new domains and demonstrates exceptionally strong first-principles reasoning. Independently produces accurate, well-structured work. Highly interested in applying new technologies to solve problems faster.
  • Strategic prioritizer: Takes nebulous direction and converts it into a clear plan. Ensures the team stays focused on the highest-leverage priorities.
  • Servant leadership: Brings a proven history of effective change management. Can align stakeholders, even when encountering resistance to change, and helps teams adopt new ways of working that enable everyone to achieve their goals.
  • Flexibility & self-starter: Comfortable with changing priorities, dynamics, and gray areas of responsibility. Acts with initiative and proactively fills gaps to keep work moving forward.
  • Extreme integrity: Operates with uncompromising ethics and respect for confidentiality when handling sensitive issues. Consistent track record of doing what you said you’d do, and approaching difficult subjects with the truth.

Benefits

  • Paid holidays, and 18 days PTO
  • Medical, dental, vision coverage
  • 401k
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • A direct impact in displacing carbon emissions, and growth opportunities in a growing startup environment

Job title

Chief of Staff

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

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