Vsco39
Chief of Staff
San Francisco, California · Exec
Sponsorship not specified$150k-$175kDetected 1 day ago
Business DevelopmentOnboardingCadencePhotographyLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- Not as a side feature, not as an afterthought, but as the whole point.
- About You Most business education happens from a distance.
Responsibilities
- anticipate needs, manage inbound priorities, and protect focus on the highest-leverage work
- For years, we've helped photographers create their work.
- Now we're building what comes next.
- you build processes that scale, not workarounds that hold
- you take ambiguous information and turn it into clear recommendations that reduce complexity and help people drive outcomes quickly
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in operations, consulting, strategy, business development, or a cross-functional startup role
- Demonstrated ability to run complex, multi-stakeholder projects from kickoff to completion
- Executive partnership: you are comfortable partnering with the CEO and other senior executives, asking difficult questions, challenging assumptions respectfully, and driving accountability across leadership teams
- High judgment and discretion: you know what to escalate, what to handle, and what to let go
- We also provide paid sick time as required by state and local law.
Skills
- You've consistently taken on more than your title suggested, and delivered
- You've operated as the "glue" on a team before, making everyone around you more effective
- You turn messy information into clear recommendations that people can act on
- When you don't know the answer, you find it instead of letting yourself get blocked
- You write a good memo. Not verbose. Concise
- You want to become a better business leader, and you understand that the fastest path is doing real work alongside someone great
- from creating and editing your work, to delivering it to clients, to running your business.
- All of it built thoughtfully, with photographers leading the way.
Compensation
- The base salary range for this role is $150,000 - $175,000.
- Salary is one component of our total compensation package.
Benefits
- This position also qualifies for bonuses and equity (i.e. stock options).
- The benefits available for this position include flexible time off, a 401K retirement plan, insurance (medical, dental, vision, life/AD&D, short and long term disability), and 11 paid holidays.
- Additional benefits and perks are also offered for this position.
Company info
- owning high-stakes projects, building the operating rhythms that keep a fast-moving team aligned, and making sure what matters on Monday actually happens by Friday.
- Track priorities, decisions, and commitments across the leadership team; make sure nothing important falls through the cracks
- Build lightweight systems that keep teams aligned and moving without adding bureaucracy
- You'll touch everything: planning, hiring, product, go-to-market, finance, and culture.
- You'll be trusted to figure things out without waiting to be asked.
- In return, you'll get something genuinely rare: direct mentorship from a deeply experienced CEO, unfiltered access to how strategic decisions get made, and a front-row seat to building a company that helps photographers turn their passion into a profession.
- If you're 5+ years into your career, are wired to execute, and want to compress a decade of business education into a few years of real work, this is that opportunity.
- This role reports directly to the CEO and is based out of our San Francisco, CA office (minimum 3 days/week in office).
- The Day-to-Day
- Operating Rhythm & Execution
- Own the company's operating cadence: weekly leadership syncs, monthly business reviews, quarterly and annual planning
- CEO Partnership
- Be the CEO's closest day-to-day operational partner: anticipate needs, manage inbound priorities, and protect focus on the highest-leverage work
- Serve as a strategic sparring partner to the CEO: pressure-test ideas, challenge assumptions, and help sharpen thinking before it goes anywhere important
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