Chief of Staff
Clipbook
People & HR, Operations
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Jan 17, 2025
Clipbook is looking for a Chief of Staff for the Founder & CEO.
This is the first Chief of Staff hire at Clipbook, with the opportunity to have a significant impact on organizational strategy, operations, and cross-functional execution. You will act as a trusted partner to the CEO and leadership team.
In this role, you will be responsible for streamlining operations, driving strategic initiatives, and ensuring alignment across teams, with a focus on enabling the company to scale effectively.
This position is ideal for someone with a passion for early-stage businesses & operational excellence who can bring a mastery of the core business skillset to a diverse, complex, and fast-moving range of business challenges.
What You'll Do
- Partner closely with the CEO on all aspects of running the business.
- Strategic Planning & Execution: Help drive strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment across teams and priorities
- Executive Support: Prepare materials and agendas for leadership meetings and investor communications; represent the CEO in internal and external meetings as needed.
- Operational Efficiency: Identify and solve bottlenecks in processes to improve team productivity and effectiveness; implement scalable systems to support rapid growth.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Engage across functionals, ensuring seamless communication and collaboration between engineering, operations, product, growth/sales, and customer success teams.
- Special Projects: Drive high-impact projects and initiatives that are critical to the company’s growth and success; tackle ad hoc challenges with creativity and efficiency.
Examples projects/areas of ownership:
- Quarterback Clipbook ‘all-team’ meetings & ‘executive team’ meetings.
- Work with CEO to finalize our 2025 budget & investment plan.
- Draft & manage cadence of communications with our investors.
- Support CEO-driven enterprise sales to big-ticket customers (content generation, meeting prep, joining calls directly).
- Support CEO on fundraising process (where relevant).
Required Skills & Experience
- Minimum ~3 years working experience, ideally 3-5 years.
- Experience in a top consulting firm, private equity, or investment bank (over 2 years).
- Strong mastery of the general business fundamentals, e.g. : quantitative analysis (e.g. core Excel skills), strong written communication, exceptional problem-solving, communication, project management skills, and managerial exposure & experience.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Instinct for early-stage scrappiness & hustle.
- Rocket-fuel driven work ethic & execution velocity.
Preferred Skills
- Background in, or passion for, SaaS, AI, or technology companies - and/or a direct experience with (or passion for) our customers.
- Hands-on experience with scaling operations and implementing organizational processes.
Why Clipbook?
- Clipbook will be a category-defining company with very strong product-market fit. We’ve signed some of the top customers in the world in this segment. Our core offering is used by several thousand users every day across 200+ organizations - having a consistent & daily impact on the most prominent leaders in the country.
- We have a world-class team that is smart, hard-working, and resourceful team - and most of all, who is passionate about our success and excited for the future. Our team has come from leading companies & orgs, including BCG, the White House, and U.S House & Senate. Team members have previously held leadership positions backed by top VCs including Sequoia, Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Coatue, and NFX.
- The opportunity to work as the day-to-day, hour-to-hour right hand to the CEO of a venture-backed & rapidly-growing company.
- We are a profitable- and rapidly-growing startup with commercial rigor at our core.
- As the company’s first CoS, you will have the opportunity to make a high-leverage impact in an early-stage, venture-backed company at a critical stage of execution.
- A fun, jet-fuel driven culture of nimble execution and innovation.
- Competitive salary (cash + equity) commensurate with experience.
- Full benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and unlimited & flexible PTO & sick days.
- Unlimited book/reading budget for professional development.