Chief of Staff to the CEO

Summary

Join Fern, a company building crypto-powered products to revolutionize personal finance, as Chief of Staff to the CEO. This high-impact role offers significant autonomy and the chance to contribute across various functions, including product, operations, marketing, sales, and strategy. You will lead cross-functional projects, solve critical problems, and help shape the company's direction. The ideal candidate possesses a founder's mindset, strong technical understanding, exceptional communication skills, and a desire to eventually start their own company. This role provides invaluable experience in building a startup from the ground up and working closely with a founder. The position is remote-first, with optional in-person collaboration in NYC.

Requirements

• Graduated from a top-tier school
• Have a technical degree or can grok technical concepts quickly and confidently
• Have a founder’s mindset (proactive, resourceful, gritty, and extremely curious)
• Have an eye for good design, strong writing chops, and exceptional taste across UX and brand
• Want to eventually start your own company
• Are energized by variety, wear lots of hats, and never say “that’s not my job”
• Operate with obsessive attention to detail and a deep sense of ownership
• Work fast, think clearly, and care deeply

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic thought partner and execution machine for the CEO across all functions, including product, GTM, regulatory and legal strategy, ops, and everything in between
• Lead and own cross-functional projects end-to-end across product launches, internal systems, brand messaging, documentation, regulatory licensing, and hiring
• Do whatever is needed to move the business forward
• Work closely with engineering and design to help shape product direction and user experience
• Spin up functional areas from 0 to 1, learning what it takes to achieve excellence in those roles, and then hire to build out those teams who can own those functions on an ongoing basis
• Learn fast, take initiative, and thrive in ambiguity
• Be a cultural cornerstone: sharp, hungry, humble, and invested in excellence

Benefits

• Work side-by-side with a founder on everything that matters
• See every part of what it takes to build a startup from the ground up
• Join an ambitious, mission-driven team building a category-defining company
• Accelerate your trajectory as a future founder, operator, or executive