Chief of Staff
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
15 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About the Job:
LaunchDarkly is hiring a Chief of Staff to partner closely with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team (ELT) as the company continues to scale. This is a senior individual contributor role for a strategic operator and trusted advisor who thrives at the intersection of strategy execution communication and data.
As Chief of Staff youll help translate company strategy into action shape executive-level planning and decision-making and ensure leadership discussions are grounded in clear insights and high-quality materials. Youll operate with significant autonomy exercise wide latitude in how work gets done and act as a thought partner to senior leaders across the organization.
This role is ideal for someone with deep experience navigating complex cross-functional environments and a strong executive presence who is excited to have broad influence without people management responsibilities.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership & Cross-Functional Execution
- Partner with the CEO to drive company-wide strategic initiatives from conception through execution.
- Help align the Executive Leadership Team and broader organization around priorities tradeoffs and outcomes.
- Proactively identify risks dependencies and gaps across critical initiatives and surface insights to leadership.
- Act as connective tissue across executives and teams to ensure strategy translates into coordinated action.
Operating Cadence & Company Planning
- Shape and support LaunchDarklys operating rhythm including quarterly business reviews and leadership planning processes.
- Design and evolve planning frameworks that enable effective executive decision-making.
- Support annual and long-range planning cycles synthesizing inputs and highlighting strategic implications.
Executive & Company Communications
- Lead the preparation and refinement of executive-level materials including Board meeting materials ELT presentations and All-Company communications.
- Ensure executive content is clear concise decision-oriented and aligned with company strategy.
Data Insights & Analysis
- Partner on executive dashboards and reporting ensuring metrics are accurate consistent and actionable.
- Analyze and understand data to inform strategic decisions and evaluate proposed initiatives.
- Translate analysis into clear recommendations for senior leadership audiences.
Executive Meetings & Offsites
- Design agendas and content for executive meetings and off-sites with a focus on alignment and outcomes.
- Capture key decisions clarify next steps and support follow-through across the organization.
Qualifications:
- Typically requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience preferably in senior-level roles involving strategy operations consulting finance product operations or executive advisory work.
- Demonstrated success partnering closely with executive leaders and influencing at the highest levels of an organization.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to distill complexity into clear compelling narratives.
- Strong analytical capabilities and comfort working with SaaS metrics and executive-level data.
- Ability to manage multiple high-impact workstreams with sound judgment and prioritization.
- High degree of discretion integrity and emotional intelligence.
Pay:
Target pay ranges in the San Francisco/Bay Area for Level 6:
- $240000 - $330000**
- Inclusive of 10% Bonus Target
LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills experience and location.**Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) health vision and dental insurance and mental health benefits in addition to salary.
About LaunchDarkly:
Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow inefficient development cycles costly outages and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components they escape nightmare big-bang technology migrations.
The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by:
- Improving the velocity and stability of software releases without the fear of end customer outages
- Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts
- Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize
- Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types
- Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability
At LaunchDarkly we believe in the power of teams. Were building a team that is humble open collaborative respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan. To do so contact People Ops at .
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Compliance Management
- Customer Retention
- Quality Assurance
- Customer Service
- Extensive Knowledge
- Account Management
- Front Office
- Telephone Calls
- Needs Analysis
- Cold calls
- Business Relationships
- Customer Complaints
- Sales Goals
- Sales Process
- New Clients
About Company
Maximize the value of every software feature through automation and feature management.
