Chief of Staff to CEO - Strategy, Execution & Ops

BBG Ventures, LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

401K retirement plan

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Short/long-term disability

Paid holidays

Job summary

VSCO is seeking a Chief of Staff to work directly with the CEO in San Francisco, driving execution across the company and owning high‑stakes projects. You’ll build operating rhythms, prioritize decisions, and ensure initiatives move from plan to action while partnering with leadership.

You’ll touch planning, hiring, product, go‑to‑market, finance, and culture, receiving direct mentorship and a front‑row seat to shaping a growing creative‑tech company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in operations, consulting, strategy, business development, or a cross‑functional startup role.
• Demonstrated ability to run complex, multi‑stakeholder projects from kickoff to completion.
• Strong systems thinker: you build processes that scale, not workarounds that hold.
• Executive partnership: you are comfortable partnering with the CEO and other senior executives, asking difficult questions, challenging assumptions respectfully, and driving accountability across leadership teams.
• Excellent written communicator: you write clearly and concisely, whether it's a decision memo or a company update.
• Strong synthesizer: you take ambiguous information and turn it into clear recommendations that reduce complexity and help people drive outcomes quickly.
• High judgment and discretion: you know what to elevate, what to handle, and what to let go.
• Genuinely curious about business: how companies grow, how teams operate, how decisions get made.
• Fluent using AI tools: you use them to work faster and think better, not as a substitute for judgment, are able to elevate others to use them in a best‑in‑class way

Responsibilities

• Own the company's operating cadence: weekly leadership syncs, monthly business reviews, quarterly and annual planning
• Track priorities, decisions, and commitments across the leadership team; make sure nothing important falls through the cracks
• Build lightweight systems that keep teams aligned and moving without adding bureaucracy
• Be the CEO's closest day‑to‑day operational partner: anticipate needs, manage inbound priorities, and protect focus on the highest‑leverage work
• Serve as a strategic sparring partner to the CEO: pressure‑test ideas, challenge assumptions, and help sharpen thinking before it goes anywhere important
• Prepare the CEO for high‑stakes conversations with crisp briefing materials, clear decision framing, and the right context
• Draft memos, strategic updates, and communications on behalf of the CEO; act as a trusted proxy when the CEO can't be in the room
• Lead initiatives that don't fit neatly inside one function: planning processes, org design, go‑to‑market launches, vendor relationships, internal tooling
• Identify where cross‑functional work is stalling; surface ownership gaps, resolve friction, and drive follow‑through
• Be the person who can be dropped into any problem and trusted to figure it out
• Support board meeting prep, investor communications, and company‑wide all‑hands
• Partner with our People team on headcount planning, new hire onboarding, and leadership team offsites
• Help design and communicate internal processes that reflect how VSCO works and what it stands for

Skills

Operations experience

Project management

Executive partnership

Written communication

Strategic thinking

Decision making

AI tooling fluency

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

VSCO is seeking a Chief of Staff to work directly with the CEO in San Francisco, driving execution across the company and owning high‑stakes projects. You’ll build operating rhythms, prioritize decisions, and ensure initiatives move from plan to action while partnering with leadership.

You’ll touch planning, hiring, product, go‑to‑market, finance, and culture, receiving direct mentorship and a front‑row seat to shaping a growing creative‑tech company.