Chief of Staff Director, Product
$255,000–$335,000 year
RemoteCalifornia, United States or New York, United States
Job Summary
Design and run the product leadership team's rhythms, including staff meetings, product reviews, and offsites with agenda architecture and decision capture. Co-own people processes with HRBP across hiring, calibrations, performance reviews, and talent management while surfacing structural risks with proactive solutions. Partner with Technology Operations to define roadmap planning processes, drive prioritization decisions, and track annual OKRs. Own headcount planning and budget management alongside Finance and HR Business Partners, managing annual planning and quarterly reforecasts. Drive AI retooling and enablement by running internal masterclasses and embedding AI-enabled processes across the function. Curate the external product narrative through all-hands, written updates, and major talks as a speechwriter partnering with PR and brand teams. Prepare executive briefings and leadership communications to reduce decision latency across the Product leadership team.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years in roles that built product credibility and strategic-narrative chops
- strategy with deep product partnership
- a prior CoS role to a senior product or engineering executive at a high-growth tech company
- A track record of running people processes at scale (hiring, calibrations, leveling, talent reviews) in a fast-growing organization
- Exceptional written communication
- you can ghostwrite
- synthesize narrative from raw inputs
- draft a board page that holds up under scrutiny
- Pattern-matching for organizational dysfunction
- the muscle to spot a broken hiring funnel
- a single point of failure
- or a leadership gap before anyone names it
- Comfort operating with influence and without authority across senior leaders in Product, Engineering, Design, Revenue, Finance, and HR
- Strong analytical foundation and business acumen
- fluent enough in product metrics
- financials
- and growth analytics to reason about tradeoffs without delegating every quantitative question
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