Chief of Staff

CREW Carbon, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

CREW Carbon, Inc. is seeking a Chief of Staff to support the CEO and translate strategy into structured plans, coordinating execution frameworks and dashboards to ensure accountability across teams.

The role is full‑time and onsite at our Brooklyn office, with travel 10–20%. You will drive prioritization, reduce cross‑functional friction, and help the organization scale with rigor as we deploy climate infrastructure initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years in Chief of Staff, consulting, operations, PMO, or legal/contract-heavy roles.
• Demonstrated success implementing systems and improving execution discipline.
• Strong fluency in structured planning tools (Gantt, critical path, project dashboards).
• Experience supporting teams in adopting tools and ways of working.
• Comfortable reading and redlining contracts.
• Exceptional organization and written communication skills.
• Highly process-oriented and structured.
• Calm, rigorous, and detail-driven.
• Comfortable enforcing accountability without creating bureaucracy.
• Low ego, high ownership.
• Mission-driven and excited about climate infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Support the CEO to drive execution discipline across priority initiatives and help translate strategy into organized action.
• Act as a trusted force-multiplier for the CEO, helping drive organizational alignment to ensure priorities are met with speed and precision.
• Coordinate planning frameworks (annual planning, quarterly OKRs, execution tracking, dependency tracking) across the CEO’s priority initiatives and at the team level.
• Support adoption of agile or hybrid execution methodologies, ensuring tools are maintained and teams have what they need to operate effectively.
• Identify bottlenecks and resolve cross-functional friction, enabling the team to operate at their best.
• Tackle high-priority “messy” problems that don’t have a natural home — from vetting a new market opportunity to supporting a critical vendor negotiation.
• Synthesize quantitative and qualitative information to support CEO decision-making.
• Support active hiring efforts — coordinating searches, managing candidate pipelines, and helping onboard new team members as the company scales.
• Support review of NDAs, MSAs, partnership and vendor agreements before counsel review.

Skills

Chief of Staff experience

Structured planning

Contract review

Cross-functional coordination

Organization & communication

Process improvement

Tools

Gantt charts

Critical path method

Project dashboards

Job description

About the role

As the Chief of Staff, you will support the CEO and help drive disciplined execution across the company. You will focus on supporting the CEO’s office in translating strategy into structured plans and action, coordinating execution frameworks, strengthening project tracking and dashboards, and ensuring accountability across teams.

The Chief of Staff will serve as a force multiplier for the CEO: clarifying priorities, reducing cross-functional friction, and helping the organization scale with rigor as we deploy.

This position is a full-time role onsite at our office in Brooklyn office with travel 10–20% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Support the CEO to drive execution discipline across priority initiatives and help translate strategy into organized action.
• Act as a trusted force-multiplier for the CEO, helping drive organizational alignment to ensure priorities are met with speed and precision.
• Coordinate planning frameworks (annual planning, quarterly OKRs, execution tracking, dependency tracking) across the CEO’s priority initiatives and at the team level.
• Support adoption of agile or hybrid execution methodologies, ensuring tools are maintained and teams have what they need to operate effectively.
• Identify bottlenecks and resolve cross-functional friction, enabling the team to operate at their best.
• Tackle high-priority “messy” problems that don’t have a natural home — from vetting a new market opportunity to supporting a critical vendor negotiation.
• Synthesize quantitative and qualitative information to support CEO decision-making.
• Support active hiring efforts — coordinating searches, managing candidate pipelines, and helping onboard new team members as the company scales.
• Support review of NDAs, MSAs, partnership and vendor agreements before counsel review.

Experience & Qualifications

• 5–10 years in Chief of Staff, consulting, operations, PMO, or legal/contract-heavy roles.
• Demonstrated success implementing systems and improving execution discipline.
• Strong fluency in structured planning tools (Gantt, critical path, project dashboards).
• Experience supporting teams in adopting tools and ways of working.
• Comfortable reading and redlining contracts.
• Exceptional organization and written communication skills.
• Highly process-oriented and structured.
• Calm, rigorous, and detail-driven.
• Comfortable enforcing accountability without creating bureaucracy.
• Low ego, high ownership.
• Mission-driven and excited about climate infrastructure.

Compensation

The annual salary range for this position is $120,000–170,000 commensurate with experience and location. We offer a competitive benefits package with multiple health insurance options (Cigna) including 100% covered plan, vacation, retirement, and equity options.

About the Company

CREW’s technology and services make wastewater treatment cheaper and more efficient, while permanently sequestering CO₂.

Leveraging advanced chemistry, natural minerals, and AI, we’ve developed and are deploying a category-defining process intensification technology, with decarbonization at its core. We are currently deploying this technology across the US and Europe. In addition, we’ve signed $40M+ in carbon removal offtake agreements with leading corporations looking to meet their climate goals, supercharging geographical CREW’s expansion.

CREW has offices and labs in New Haven, CT and offices in Brooklyn, NY.

CREW Insights

• CREW raises $25M of funding to scale wastewater treatment optimization technology as climate solution
• A climate fix that could cut your water bill (The Wall Street Journal)
• Leading U.S. water utility HRSD partners with CREW to deploy process intensification technology (Wastewater Digest)
• The Colorado Energy Office awards $2.35M to CREW’s wastewater treatment CDR tech (Carbon Herald)
• CREW signed a carbon credit offtake agreement with the Frontier Climate Fund (Reuters)
• CREW delivers pioneering wastewater alkalinity enhancement credits (Carbon Herald)
• CREW recognized as one of the most promising climate tech startups (Business Insider)

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.