Chief Of Staff

Summary

Join Instacart as a Director level Chief of Staff to support the CTO! This strategic role involves driving operational excellence, aligning priorities, and ensuring seamless execution of key initiatives. You will act as a trusted partner to the CTO, orchestrating collaboration across teams and facilitating innovation. The position requires a technical background, strong project management skills, and excellent communication abilities. You will manage internal meetings, provide strategic counsel, and manage internal technical operations. This role is remote with a competitive compensation and benefits package, including equity grants.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience working on/with technical teams
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience working as an engineer
• Excellent technical writing skills
• Experience working and influencing at all levels, including executive and C-suite

Responsibilities

• Work across teams to manage business rhythms for the CTO (team meetings, operating cadence, newsletters/org communications, etc.)
• Act as a strategic counsel to cross-functional partners
• Ensure progress on priority technical workstreams, help build technical decision-making frameworks, deliverables, etc
• Design and maintain tools and systems to coordinate and track VP’s engagements with internal and external stakeholders
• Work across teams to prepare technical briefings and coordinate research for meetings with partners and key leaders (e.g. identify goals and talking points, provide background on attendees, etc.)
• Writing technical drafts of internal comms including proofing and advising on technical content/communication
• Build technical documents and presentations as needed

Preferred Qualifications

Experience managing/leading a technical team

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
• Remote work
• New hire equity grant
• Annual refresh grants