Associate Chief of Staff

Zus Health•Portland, ME

2d•$120,000 - $160,000•Onsite

About The Position

Zus Health is seeking a highly organized, intellectually curious, and ambitious Associate Chief of Staff to work directly with its CEO, Jonathan Bush, and support the Senior Leadership Team in operating at its best. This role offers a unique opportunity for an individual earlier in their career to gain front-row experience in building and scaling a healthcare technology company. The Associate Chief of Staff will collaborate with the CEO and executive team to maintain focus, facilitate decision-making, ensure clear communication, and drive organizational follow-through on key priorities. The ideal candidate is passionate about healthcare transformation through technology, eager to make an impact in a fast-paced startup environment, and comfortable with a range of tasks from strategic business analysis to detailed operational execution.

Requirements

Strong business skills, including presentation crafting, content building, process management, and analytical capabilities.
Ability to quickly learn and address unfamiliar problems.
Exceptional organization and attention to detail, with the ability to manage a nuanced leadership agenda, capture fast-moving conversations, identify decisions and next steps, and ensure follow-through.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex discussions into clear takeaways and create polished materials for various stakeholders.
Sound judgment and discretion, with an understanding of how to handle sensitive company, employee, customer, and strategic information with maturity and confidentiality.
Enthusiastic willingness to handle administrative and tactical tasks alongside strategic work, approaching note-taking, agenda-setting, scheduling, and follow-up with energy.
A self-starter attitude and comfort with the fast, sometimes unstructured nature of an early-stage company.
Intellectual curiosity and a desire to learn, asking good questions and absorbing information quickly.
Passion for healthcare and technology, with a belief in Zus's mission and excitement to learn about healthcare dynamics, interoperability, and the challenges faced by technology companies.
A collaborative, low-ego approach, comfortable working behind the scenes to make others more effective.
Ability to be based in Portland, Maine.
Flexibility to travel regularly with the CEO as business needs require.

Nice To Haves

Experience as an Analyst or Associate in consulting, banking, PE/VC, strategy, business operations, or a similar environment.
Desire to gain hands-on experience that could lead to business school.

Responsibilities

Organize and manage Senior Leadership Team (SLT) meetings, develop agendas, take notes, document decisions and action items, and ensure consistent follow-through across leaders to focus the team on the most important issues.
Support the CEO by prioritizing his focus, providing leverage in day-to-day operations, anticipating needs, keeping priorities moving, preparing him for meetings, and contributing to overall effectiveness.
Drive organizational follow-through by translating leadership discussions into clear owners, next steps, and timelines, and proactively ensuring commitments are met.
Develop crisp, thoughtful, and compelling presentations, memos, analyses, and other materials to ensure clear communication with the Board, investors, leadership team, customers, and the broader market.
Analyze business data, synthesize complex topics, conduct research, and provide insights to help the leadership team make better and faster decisions.
Undertake special projects alongside the CEO and leadership team.