Executive Chief of Staff: Strategy, Execution & CEO Partner

VSCO®; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonuses

Flexible time off

401K

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life/AD&D

Short and long term disability

11 paid holidays

Paid sick time

Job summary

VSCO is seeking a Chief of Staff to work directly with the CEO in San Francisco, driving execution across the company. The role owns operating rhythms, cross-functional initiatives, and strategic communications to keep a fast-moving organization aligned.

You will partner with senior leaders, manage high-priority projects, and design processes that scale. The position offers mentorship, equity opportunities, and exposure to critical company decisions.

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: comfortable partnering with the CEO and other senior executives, driving accountability.
• Excellent written communicator: you write clearly and concisely, whether it's a decision memo or a company update.
• Strong synthesizer: you turn ambiguous information into clear recommendations that reduce complexity and help people drive outcomes quickly.
• High judgment and discretion: you know what to escalate, 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, elevating others in best-in-class ways

Responsibilities

• Own the operating cadence: weekly leadership syncs, monthly business reviews, quarterly and annual planning.
• Track priorities, decisions, and commitments across the leadership team; ensure nothing important falls through the cracks.
• Build lightweight systems that keep teams aligned and moving without adding bureaucracy.
• Be the CEO's day-to-day operational partner: anticipate needs, manage inbound priorities, protect focus on high-leverage work.
• 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 cross-functional initiatives: planning processes, org design, go-to-market launches, vendor relationships, internal tooling.
• Identify where cross-functional work stalls; surface ownership gaps, resolve friction, drive follow-through.
• Be the person dropped into any problem and trusted to figure it out.
• Support board meeting prep, investor communications, and company-wide all-hands.
• Partner with People on headcount planning and leadership offsites.
• Help design internal processes that reflect how VSCO works and what it stands for.

Skills

Operations experience

Cross-functional projects

Executive partnership

Strategic thinking

Written communication

AI tools fluency

Job description

VSCO is seeking a Chief of Staff to work directly with the CEO in San Francisco, driving execution across the company. The role owns operating rhythms, cross-functional initiatives, and strategic communications to keep a fast-moving organization aligned.

You will partner with senior leaders, manage high-priority projects, and design processes that scale. The position offers mentorship, equity opportunities, and exposure to critical company decisions.