Chief of Staff, Office of the CEO

What you'll be doing

As we grow, our CEO needs a true partner to drive and facilitate business priorities forward. The Chief of Staff will serve as the CEO's right hand owning executive support and cross-functional execution, supporting internal and external communications, and keep the office running smoothly behind the scenes. This is a hands-on, high-trust role for someone who can run a leadership project in the morning, manage a CEO's calendar at midday, and draft a product announcement in the afternoon.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted partner and advisor to the CEO by keeping a running view of company priorities and surface blockers, dependencies, and trade-offs to the CEO early and often
• Coordinate across engineering, manufacturing, and business operations teams to keep the company's key initiatives and cross-functional projects, tracking scope, owners, timelines, risks, and driving them to completion
• Track action items and decisions across leadership and follow up until they're closed
• Prepare briefing materials, agendas, and follow-ups for key meetings, and represent the CEO in meetings when needed
• Manage the CEO's calendar, travel, and expenses
• Draft and edit executive communications, including emails, blog posts, talking points, and presentation support
• Support office operations with Technical and Business Operation teams

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a chief-of-staff, program/project management, operations, executive assistance, marketing, or communications role
• Demonstrated track record running projects with multiple contributors to a hard external deadline, including work you did not personally control
• Excellent writing and editing skills, with a portfolio or samples to show
• Strong organization and the ability to juggle competing priorities with a strong bias towards action and high ownership mindset
• Sound judgment and discretion with sensitive information
• Comfort operating with ambiguity, incomplete data and operate independently with minimal structure in a fast paced environment
• Proficiency with Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, Slack, and standard productivity tools

Preferred Skills

• Experience at a startup or rapidly growing company
• Previous experience with project management tools

Compensation, Benefits, & Perks

As a pre-revenue startup, Endurance Energy offers competitive base salaries and generous equity packages for full-time employees. Final base salary will be determined by an array of factors including internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and work experience.

• A key aspect of our compensation philosophy is that value creation should be aligned with rewards.
• Right now this means equity is a significant portion of every full-time employee's compensation.
• As the company matures, there will be continued evolution and changes to the total rewards and total compensation package.
• What will always be true is that if we win, we win together.
• Equity is granted to every full-time employee as a meaningful piece of ownership.
• We believe the people building the company should share directly in the value they create.

In addition to a competitive base salary and equity, employees will receive all of our other great benefits and perks, including:

• Benefits: Health, Dental, and Vision insurance coverage
• Time Away: Flexible PTO including 12 paid company holidays
• Global Fieldwork: Travel to fascinating deployment sites along oceanic ridges in locations like the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, and the Azores
• Hands-on Experience: Participate in sea trials and deployment operations in partnership with leading oceanographic institutions
• Cutting-edge Development: Work with technology that spans high-power electronics, marine systems, and clean energy
• Impactful Work: Help solve one of the world's most pressing challenges
• Dive Certification: Company-sponsored recreational dive certification
• Other Perks: Access to the company boat, free meals and snacks, and the list goes on!

If you’re selected for consideration, a recruiter will be able to discuss in greater detail.