Chief of Staff to CEO
Employer Direct Healthcare
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dallas • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Own the CEO’s operating system: priorities, calendar architecture, decision forums, and information flow.
- Prepare the CEO for key meetings - develop agendas, synthesize materials, and ensure crisp decision-making.
- Ruthlessly protect focus: filter noise, triage inbound requests, and align time to top priorities.
- Design and run the rhythm of the business (weekly/monthly/quarterly): leadership meetings, reviews, offsites.
- Create repeatable structures for planning, execution, and accountability across teams.
- Facilitate high-impact meetings – agenda, pre-work, outcomes, and downstream follow-through.
- Lead time-bound, cross-functional initiatives that require early momentum, clarity, and structured execution.
- Stand up new efforts and smoothly transition ownership to functional leaders once stabilized.
- Ensure all departments are aligned with company-wide priorities, proactively removing roadblocks and driving accountability for execution across the organization.
- Build and maintain dashboards and briefings that distill complex data into actionable insights.
- Run OKR/goal setting cycles; track progress and drive accountability to outcomes.
- Proactively surface and analyze risks, tradeoffs, and scenario analyses to inform CEO decisions.
- Ensure the CEO’s priorities and context are clearly understood across the organization & executive leaders.
- Draft internal updates, executive communications, board materials, and strategic narratives.
- Foster transparency and shared context across teams to avoid ambiguity.
- Implement processes and lightweight systems that enhance speed, quality, and consistency.
- Identify operational bottlenecks; propose and lead improvement efforts to streamline workflows.
- Partner with Finance/People/IT on resource planning, annual cycles, and key initiatives.
- Be a driver of effective change management, including fostering innovation and experimentation and working through organizational blockers
- Keep a pulse on team engagement, morale, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Model high standards of preparation, clarity, and follow-through; raise the bar on meeting hygiene.
- Help onboard leaders to the CEO’s operating style; coach teams on effective upward communication.
Requirements
- 5+ years of strategy consulting, investment banking and / or private investment experience (venture/growth/PE), with demonstrated high performance required
- 3+ years of executive-oriented experience preferred (CoS to C-level, other senior level roles with high executive engagement)
- 3+ years of experience working in US healthcare a plus (digital health, tech-enabled healthcare services, employer benefits)
- Be a strong communicator: both verbally and written; sharp, concise, persuasive
- Be a strategic thinker: comfortable both thinking through how to address challenges, solve problems all while consistently prioritizing where to focus
- Lead with influence: building consensus while navigating complexity
- Be comfortable in a fast-paced environment that can be challenging but highly rewarding
- Highly structured and organized – demonstrated ability to bring order and process to dynamic situations
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Short & Long Term Disability
- Life Insurance
- 401k with company match
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
strategic planningdata analysisgoal settingrisk analysisproject managementchange managementprocess improvementexecutive communicationmeeting facilitationdashboard creation
Soft skills
strong communicationstrategic thinkinginfluenceorganizationproblem-solvingteam engagementclarityaccountabilitycollaborationadaptability