Chief of Staff

CurbWaste

Chief of Staff optimizing internal strategy and operational execution for a growing waste management company. Collaborating with leadership to establish metrics, processes, and AI integration.

Posted 7/7/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $190,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with the CEO on company-wide strategy, translating a broad vision into quarterly priorities, operating plans, and the decisions that actually get made.
Design and roll out our performance management framework from the ground up - goal-setting, review cycles, calibration, and career frameworks - so expectations are clear and talent is developed as we scale.
Establish the metrics that matter for each function, build the dashboards and reporting cadence behind them, and create a data-driven operating rhythm that surfaces problems early instead of late.
Lead how CurbWaste uses AI internally - identifying where AI creates real leverage across functions, deploying tooling and workflows, and building an operation that runs leaner and faster because AI is in the fabric of how we work, not bolted on.
Drive the strategic initiatives that don't have an obvious owner. Push execution across the org without formal authority, and make the CEO's job smaller.
Partner with finance on modeling, metrics, and board-level reporting; help prepare for future fundraises.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5–8+ years in high-performing environments — top-tier startup operations, Chief of Staff / BizOps / Strategy & Ops, management consulting (MBB or similar), or investment banking with a track record of building and running these systems inside a company that was scaling fast, not just advising from the outside.
You've deployed AI in real operational settings and have strong instincts for where it creates leverage and where it doesn't.
You've rolled out performance management before. You've stood up review cycles, goal frameworks, and KPI systems from scratch and driven adoption across teams.
You're gritty. You have a bias toward action, comfort making decisions with incomplete information, and a singular focus on winning.
You build, you don't maintain. You've created processes and systems from zero, not inherited and preserved them.
You influence without authority. Exceptional communication and the ability to get cross-functional teams moving in the same direction.
You're analytical. You love diving into data to find insights and turning them into decisions.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary: $190K–$200K + meaningful equity
Flexible time off, with ample learning and development support
Company-paid medical, dental, and vision
401(k)
A direct line to the CEO and leadership team
The chance to shape the company's foundation and culture

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Hard Skills & Tools

Performance ManagementKPI SystemsGoal FrameworksData AnalysisOperational Modeling

Soft Skills

Exceptional CommunicationBias Toward ActionGritInfluence Without Authority