Description
About the job
As Chief of Staff, you’ll work closely with our CEO, to help North Horizon to invest in a better future. You’ll bring clarity, focus, and momentum to high-impact initiatives and drive strategic execution across the organization. This role requires both strategic foresight and operational excellence. You'll help set priorities, structure key initiatives, and drive execution across leadership and teams. You’ll also help keep leadership aligned, clear roadblocks, and speed up decision-making, ensuring the company stays focused and delivers results.
Responsibilities:
- Drive Strategic Execution: Partner with the CEO to translate the big-picture strategy into actionable priorities and ensure follow-through across leadership and teams.
- Push Key Initiatives Forward: Own and unblock high-impact projects, keeping leadership focused on execution. Identify obstacles early and proactively problem-solve to maintain momentum.
- Make Decisions Faster & Smarter: Synthesize complex data into clear insights that help the CEO and leadership team move quickly with confidence. Prepare analysis, reports, and recommendations that cut through noise and drive action.
- Enable Leadership Effectiveness: Ensure leaders stay aligned and accountable and help maintain a culture of high focus and performance. Foster collaborative and positive working relationships within the executive team by facilitating open dialogue, identifying and addressing potential conflicts, and raising key issues for resolution.
- Drive Cross-Functional Alignment: Act as a bridge between teams, ensuring seamless coordination on strategic priorities. Reduce friction and enable leaders to operate at full capacity.
- Scale the CEO’s Impact: As the CEO's strategic right-hand, you will serve as a key advisor and confident, proxy in key meetings, help prioritize and escalate decisions, and act as a force multiplier to ensure the smooth execution of company-wide initiatives.
- Facilitate Key Meetings and Events: Organize and facilitate leadership meetings and/or events by establishing and maintaining agendas, managing discussion flow, capturing and synthesizing notes and ensuring action items are clearly defined with owners.
- Ensure High Impact Communications: Support the CEO in key meetings, external engagements, board and investor relations, and thought leadership initiatives, ensuring North Horizon’s vision is clearly articulated to customers, partners, and the industry. Facilitate clear communication between the CEO, other executives and different departments by channeling information, facilitating working sessions, summarizing key points and addressing communication gaps.
Skills And Qualifications
· Bachelor’s degree in management, finance, or related field. Master’s degree is preferred.
- 5+ years in a similar role working directly with or supporting C-Suite executives. Consulting, high-growth financial institutions, or family business preferred.
- Proven track record of driving cross-functional initiatives, ensuring alignment between teams and guiding projects from planning to execution.
- Strong analytical skills. You use data to inform decisions, bridge different perspectives, and drive action.
- Financial acumen demonstrated by understanding how financials and models impact strategy.
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills. You translate complex ideas into clear, actionable insights while fostering alignment across stakeholders.
- Adaptability & bias for action. You anticipate challenges, pivot when needed, and drive outcomes.
- Able to lead by influence.
- High emotional intelligence with the ability to navigate complex dynamics, resolve conflicts and foster a positive organizational culture.
- Experience with modern digital tools and an openness to integrating AI-powered solutions to enhance development efficiency, automation, and problem-solving.
- Strong problem-solving skills with an ability to critically evaluate AI-assisted decision-making, workflow automation, and its impact on software development processes.
- A mindset of continuous learning, with a demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and trends.