Chief of Staff

Mesh Connect; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Mesh Connect seeks a Chief of Staff to partner with the CEO as a strategic thinker and executor across the organization. You will own the operating rhythm, drive top-priority initiatives, oversee the Business Operations function, and build M&A/corporate development from the ground up.

This executive seat requires sourcing, negotiating, and closing impactful strategic deals that extend Mesh’s reach in crypto and payments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in strategy and operations leadership at a high-growth company.
• Built and led a function from scratch, hiring and managing a team.

Responsibilities

• Act as the CEO’s strategic thinking partner on priorities, decisions, and tradeoffs; represent the CEO with execs, board, partners, and investors.
• Own operating rhythm: planning, OKRs, leadership reviews, exec meetings, town halls; ensure priorities are clear and progress visible.
• Lead board/investor readiness with quarterly updates, exec summaries, and KPI reporting from a single source of truth.
• Oversee Business Operations; set priorities, remove blockers, and lift cross-functional execution.
• Drive CEO special projects end-to-end: new markets, partnerships, pricing, and unit economics.
• Hold execs accountable to goals, surface risks early, resolve cross-functional blockers.
• Partner with People for org design, executive hiring, internal comms, and culture.
• Build systems, dashboards, and AI-powered workflows to scale Mesh efficiently.

Skills

Strategy & Operations leadership

Executive collaboration

Corporate development

Board prep & reporting

Data-driven decision making

Crypto/payments ecosystem

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Job description

Overview

Mesh is building the financial operating system that connects exchanges, wallets, and payment flows across the digital asset ecosystem. As we scale, we’re looking for a Chief of Staff to be the CEO’s closest strategic partner and the executive who makes the company run.

Reporting directly to our Founder and CEO, you’ll own how Mesh operates. You’ll set the operating rhythm, drive the company’s highest-priority initiatives, oversee the Business Operations function, and build Mesh’s M&A and Corporate Development function from the ground up. You’ll extend the CEO’s reach across the company, turning strategy into plans, plans into accountable owners, and owners into results. This is an executive seat on the leadership team: you’ll own outcomes, not just coordinate them, and you’ll be the person who sources, negotiates, and closes the deals that expand Mesh’s reach across crypto and payments.

What You’ll Do

• Act as the CEO’s strategic thinking partner on company priorities, key decisions, and tradeoffs, and represent the CEO with the exec team, board, partners, and investors




• Own Mesh’s operating rhythm: annual and quarterly planning, OKRs, weekly leadership reviews, exec meetings, and town halls, so priorities are clear, progress is visible, and decisions don’t stall




• Lead board and investor readiness, including quarterly board updates, exec summaries, and company performance reporting built on a single source of truth for key metrics




• Oversee the Business Operations function, partnering with the Biz Ops lead to set priorities, remove blockers, and raise the bar for how cross-functional work is scoped, run, and measured




• Drive CEO special projects end to end, from new markets and strategic partnerships (exchanges, wallets, on/off-ramp partners) to pricing and unit economics




• Hold the executive team accountable to company goals, surface risks early, and resolve the cross-functional issues that sit between teams




• Partner with People on org design, executive hiring, internal communications, and culture




• Build the systems, dashboards, and AI-powered workflows that make company performance easy to see and let Mesh scale efficiently

Who You Are

• 10+ years of experience, including senior leadership in strategy and operations, business operations, corporate development, or as a Chief of Staff to a CEO at a high-growth company




• A proven leader who has built a function from scratch, including hiring and managing the team




• Has owned (not just supported) a company operating cadence: planning, OKRs, exec reviews, and board preparation at a scaling startup




• Executive presence and sound judgment; trusted by the CEO, board, and exec team, and comfortable giving direct feedback upward




• Exceptional written and verbal communicator who can turn complexity into clear narratives for the board, leadership, and the whole company




• Data-driven and commercially minded; comfortable building models and owning company metrics




• Deep experience in crypto and/or payments processing (stablecoins, exchanges, wallets, on/off-ramps, card and payment networks, regulatory licensing), with a network across the ecosystem




• Experience in high-growth startup environments (Series B and beyond preferred) and able to travel, including internationally




• Able to be in the office 3 days a week