Chief of Staff to CEO — Strategy & End-to-End Execution

Big Wave Digital - United States; New York (NY); On-site; USD 189,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Big Wave Digital in New York City is seeking a Chief of Staff to work directly with the founder-CEO. You will be where strategy meets execution — tackling cross-cutting problems and driving decisions through to implementation. This is not a programme-management role or a slide factory.

You scope the question, do the work, decide with the CEO, and stay in the room as it gets built. Location: New York City, on-site, with roughly 50% travel.

Qualifications

• Two to six years at McKinsey, BCG or Bain, or in a comparable strategy firm.
• Experience structuring ambiguous problems, running workstreams, and engaging senior relationships.
• Exposure to industrials, operations, private equity or corporate finance is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Take the three or four problems genuinely holding the company back and own them end to end — market entry, pricing, make-versus-buy, and go-to-market model rebuilding.
• Turn the CEO’s priorities into actionable, sequenced work with clear owners and numbers.
• Build business cases and models behind major decisions and defend them with the board, investors and the executive team.
• Run diligence on partnerships, new facilities and acquisitions — commercial, operational and financial.
• Prepare board and investor materials that tell the truth about the business rather than a curated version.
• Sit in on hard conversations with customers, suppliers and engineers, translating what you hear into decisions.

Skills

Management Consulting

Corporate Strategy

Financial Modeling

Job description

Big Wave Digital in New York City is seeking a Chief of Staff to work directly with the founder-CEO. You will be where strategy meets execution — tackling cross-cutting problems and driving decisions through to implementation. This is not a programme-management role or a slide factory.

You scope the question, do the work, decide with the CEO, and stay in the room as it gets built. Location: New York City, on-site, with roughly 50% travel.