Cfgi
Chief of Staff to the COO
United States · Exec
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 69 days ago
Performance ManagementCadenceLeadership
About the role
- CFGI is a PE-backed professional services firm with 30+ offices, strong year-over-year growth, and an expanding international footprint.
- This role sits at the center of that buildout.
- Serve as the COO's proxy in working sessions, executive meetings, and cross-functional forums.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the COO's intelligence layer across the firm. Attend key meetings, synthesize what is being heard from Partners, practice leaders, and office staff, and surface patterns and sentiment the COO needs to know.
- Drive accountability across initiative owners and Partners without direct line authority, triaging risks, blockers, and decisions that require COO attention or delegation, and influencing Partners and senior leaders to keep work moving.
- Structure problems, build the analytical backbone for decisions, and develop the materials needed to take recommendations to the co-CEOs and Board.
- Design and run the COO's operating cadence: priorities, meeting rhythms, decision cycles, and stakeholder communications.
- Manage the COO's bandwidth: triage incoming demands, filter noise, and know when the COO needs to be in the room versus when decisions can move without them.
- Partner with functional leads (CHRO, CCO, practice leaders, Office Managing Partners) to ensure operational alignment.
- Support the design and rollout of the firm's office operating model, Partner performance systems, and pricing governance.
- Identify systemic operational gaps before they become risks and build the case for structural fixes.
- Translate AI strategy into practice-level adoption. Work with practice leaders and Office Managing Partners to identify the highest-value use cases, sequence implementation, and build the internal capability to sustain it.
Requirements
- Experience working in or with professional services, financial services, or PE-backed firms is a strong advantage.
- Track record of managing multiple high-priority workstreams simultaneously without losing quality or momentum.
- Proven ability to operate at both the strategic and execution level, from shaping a recommendation for the Board to following through on the operational detail.
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