Clare is seeking a highly driven, self-motivated and process-oriented Chief of Staff to support our CEO in building the world's best paint brand. In this role, you'll work as a right hand to our CEO in areas ranging from strategy and business operations to investor relations, business intelligence, special projects and more. You'll also work closely with leadership and the larger team to improve organizational operations and ensure alignment and accountability around company goals and critical business priorities. This is a wear many hats position where you'll have responsibility and influence throughout the organization and play an important role in solving a variety of challenging problems while driving strategic business initiatives forward.
If you're a forward-thinking problem solver with exceptional project management skills who is excited to join a fast-paced startup and own high-impact work that will fuel our company's growth, we'd love to hear from you!
What you'll do
As Chief of Staff, you'll work closely with our CEO on 3 key business areas:
CEO Support
- Serve as a right hand and thought partner to our CEO, helping her work more efficiently and maximize bandwidth to enable more time to focus on what she's best at.
- Support investor relations including board presentations, investor updates and future fundraising activity.
- Work with the CEO to define company goals and strategic priorities.
- Serve as a proxy for the CEO, as necessary, in meetings and dialogue with internal and external partners, helping to drive key strategic and operational initiatives forward.
- Support with finance, forecasting and administrative business needs including tax filings and insurance managemen.
Business Strategy
- Work with the CEO on strategy and special projects to support channel expansion, partnerships, business development and forward-looking go-to-market initiatives.
- You'll operate as an internal consultant at Clare, providing analysis and recommendations to evaluate opportunities.
- You'll own some of these projects from end-to-end, working cross-functionally to drive execution and bring plans to life.
Business operations
- Support day-to-day company operations and help drive organizational execution.
- Help the Clare team work together more effectively, and design and implement processes that will enable our business to scale effectively,
- Manage the agendas and run key internal internal meetings, tracking next steps and ensuring accountability for deliverables.
- Own and manage the Clare weekly, monthly and quarterly business review process and reporting.
- Guide our OKR process, ensuring alignment and accountability across the organization.
- Own business intelligence, working to centralize data from multiple teams into robust dashboards and translate data into actionable insights to drive decision-making and inform growth and efficiency strategies across our organization.
Who you are
- A passionate problem solver — You're motivated by challenges both large and unfamiliar and can confidently tackle any problem thrown your way with a 'roll-up-your-sleeves', 'no task is too small' attitude. You love putting your critical thinking skills to work and developing creative solutions to make the impossible possible!
- A data-driven decision maker — You're highly analytical and skilled and leveraging data to tell a cohesive story, delivering actionable insights to optimize business performance and enable better, faster decision-making.
- An agile thinker — You're equally comfortable with big picture strategic planning and the small details of tactical execution and have no trouble switching between macro and micro views.
- Highly organized — You're organized, detail-oriented and can effectively juggle multiple projects and competing priorities like a boss. You love creating order from chaos, and are adept at improving processes to enable workflow efficiency.
- Highly entrepreneurial — You're a self-starter who isn't afraid to challenge the status quo, is undeterred by ambiguity and thrives in a fast-paced environment. You operate with speed, agility, have a bias for action and know how to get sh*t done.
- An excellent project manager — You're methodical and process-oriented, capable of turning ideas into action plans and owning projects from end-to end. Your strong communication and interpersonal skills enable you to seamlessly manage up, down and laterally in moving projects forward.
- Results-driven — You measure success by quantifiable impact and outcomes, rather than output, are highly accountable and feel ownership over the company's success.
- Highly curious — You're intellectually curious with the ability to learn and get up to speed on new areas quickly. You're unintimidated when operating outside of your comfort zone and champion continual learning and improvement both personally and professionally.
About our CEO
- Read a few highlights about Nicole here.
Requirements
- 5+ years of demonstrated success in a founder, management consulting, investment banking, Chief of Staff or business strategy-focused role at a high-growth company.
- Outstanding organization, planning, project management, and prioritization skills
- Strong leadership skills
- Strong data analysis, financial modeling and presentation skills
- Strong written and interpersonal communication skills
- Experience managing people and teams
- Commitment to our mission and strong desire to be a part of a high-growth, industry-transforming company
- MBA preferred
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation commensurate with experience plus equity in the company
- Comprehensive health benefits and access to a 401K savings plan
- A fun, dynamic working environment with a small, energetic and diverse team
- Flexible remote working
- Unlimited PTO
- A diverse and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome
We're proud to be a woman and minority-led, Equal Opportunity Employer. We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and can bring their whole selves to work. We believe a team that reflects a variety of backgrounds and perspectives helps us better serve the needs of our customers and we celebrate diversity in all forms. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we're committed living out these values in all aspects of hiring, employee engagement and retention.
Company:ClareLocation:New York - USJob Types:Full TimePost Date:February 21, 2022Valid Through:March 21, 2022