Chief of Staff

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Take on high-priority questions and projects for the CEO, including research, analysis, recommendations, and execution.
• Own projects that span teams or don’t yet have a natural home, such as new markets, partnerships, pricing, or other strategic initiatives.
• Run Viam’s company planning and leadership rhythm, including planning cycles, leadership meetings, business reviews, and offsites.
• Keep a clear view of the company’s most important initiatives — who owns them, where they stand, and what’s getting in the way.
• Work across engineering, product, GTM, and finance to surface misalignment and help resolve issues that cut across functions.
• Support board and investor work, including company metrics, board materials, investor updates, and financing processes when they arise.
• Turn insights from customer, partner, and market conversations into useful input for the broader company.
• Write strategy memos, company communications, and other materials that help people understand important decisions and context.

Job requirements

• 6+ years of experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, management consulting, startup strategy/BizOps, or a similarly rigorous environment.
• Strong analytical and financial skills. You’re comfortable building a model, digging into company metrics, and figuring out what the numbers actually mean.
• Technical fluency. You don’t need to be an engineer, but you should be able to follow technical conversations, ask good questions, and work credibly with engineering and product teams.
• Excellent writing and the ability to make complicated ideas clear.
• Experience taking ambiguous projects from an open question to a concrete outcome.
• Strong judgment about what matters and where to spend time.
• High ownership and low ego.
• Comfort challenging senior leaders and forming your own perspective.