Chief of Staff

Summary

Join Placemakr, a company combining apartment living, vacation rentals, and hotel stays, as their Chief of Staff. Reporting to the President and Co-Founder, you will collaborate with senior leadership, drive strategic alignment, and improve cross-functional accountability. This role involves supporting the President in leading cross-functional strategic initiatives and serving as operational support for the Platform Senior Leadership Team. The position offers a launchpad for executive leadership with close collaboration with executives and exposure to all levels of the organization. This is a remote-first, DC-based role with regular travel. You will be a force multiplier for the leadership team, orchestrating strategic projects, and ensuring major initiatives move forward.

Requirements

• Sharp, Organized, and Accountable Generalist: Ideally a recent MBA or someone with equivalent experience in consulting, business operations, or strategic execution. You bring both breadth and depth, adapting quickly to whatever the business needs
• Proactive Problem Solving, Opportunity Identification and Action: You anticipate needs, spot gaps before they become problems, and take decisive action, often without being explicitly asked. You’re comfortable rolling up your sleeves to ensure success, no matter how menial a task may seem
• Strategic Thinker with an Operator’s Discipline: You can prioritize competing goals to effectively manage time, then dive into the details to execute with precision, independently and without handholding
• Clear and Emotionally Intelligent Communicator: You tailor your message to any audience, from C-suite executives to frontline operators, and know how to influence outcomes while building trust. You have the ability to synthesize complex concepts and analyze data into easily understandable, actionable insights
• Adaptable and Ownership-Oriented: You thrive in ambiguity, take full responsibility for results, and hold yourself and others to a high bar without sacrificing relationships or trust
• Grounded in Dare to Lead Principles: Courageous in tackling hard truths, curious in seeking new perspectives, and committed to clarity and care in how you work with others
• Values-Driven Leader by Example: You embody Placemakr’s core values of You Own It. You Make It Better. You Treat People Right

Responsibilities

• Be a Force Multiplier: Extend the impact of the Platform leadership team by anticipating needs and proactively supporting business priorities
• Orchestrate Strategic Projects: Drive execution on multi-functional initiatives that require strong alignment and precise coordination
• Own Project Timelines and Accountability: Ensure major initiatives move forward without losing momentum or clarity
• Support the Platform Senior Leadership Team: Align priorities and execution across the President, COO, and CFO’s portfolios
• Influence without Authority: Manage cross-functional relationships, competing priorities, and time and resources proactively in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
• Manage Up and Down the Org: Prepare execs for key decisions, synthesize information, and help ensure clarity of direction
• Evolve Into a Strategic Operator: Grow into ownership of strategic relationships and initiatives that drive value, efficiency, and scale
• Additional duties and responsibilities, as assigned

Benefits

• Competitive Pay and Generous Stock Options
• Medical, Vision & Dental Insurance with options for Flexible Spending Accounts
• Generous Paid Time-Off Program
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Life Insurance
• 401k + 4% employer matching program
• Monthly cell phone reimbursement, health & wellness stipend and a generous onboarding stipend for remote employees
• Plus, discounts to stay at select Placemakr properties all over the US