Chief of Staff to the CEO

Urrly•Los Angeles, CA

16h•Onsite

About The Position

This role serves as the CEO's right hand in a fast-moving consumer-products business, focusing on driving high-priority initiatives to completion. The Chief of Staff will create clarity, push decisions forward, hold senior owners accountable, and ensure important work gets finished without constant CEO oversight. The company is building the leadership cadence, operating systems, and execution discipline needed for its next stage of growth, aiming to scale a major business unit from approximately $10M toward $100M over five years. This position is designed for someone who wants to grow into broader strategic and executive responsibility by becoming an indispensable partner to the CEO.

Requirements

Experience in a Chief of Staff, strategy and operations, business operations, consulting, general management, strategic initiatives, or similarly cross-functional role.
Worked directly with a founder, CEO, business-unit leader, or senior executive and can show how you increased that person's effectiveness.
Independently owned ambiguous, commercially meaningful initiatives from idea through result.
Can prioritize across competing demands and explain the business reasoning behind your recommendations.
Comfortable pushing senior stakeholders, asking difficult questions, and respectfully challenging an executive.
Communicate clearly in writing and can turn complexity into concise decisions and next steps.
Move quickly without becoming careless and bring structure without adding unnecessary process.
Fluent with collaborative documents, spreadsheets, dashboards, project-management platforms, and modern AI-enabled workflows.
Want a long-term opportunity to grow into broader strategic and executive leadership.

Nice To Haves

Experience in consumer products, retail, ecommerce, marketplaces, brand management, product launches, or operations.
Experience in a founder-led or entrepreneurial company going through rapid growth or organizational change.
Comfort working with retailers, agencies, factories, attorneys, accountants, recruiters, finance partners, and other external stakeholders.
Evidence that you have grown quickly in prior roles and taken on responsibilities beyond your original job description.

Responsibilities

Translate the CEO's ideas, conversations, emails, and open loops into clear priorities, decisions, owners, deadlines, and expected results.
Help the CEO distinguish what is urgent, what is important, what should move now, and what should be stopped or deferred.
Prepare concise, decision-ready summaries that separate facts, assumptions, risks, options, and recommendations.
Track decisions and make sure the right people understand what was decided and execute accordingly.
Protect the CEO's attention by resolving issues independently when possible and escalating only what truly requires executive involvement.
Independently lead two or three high-priority initiatives at a time from ambiguity through measurable result.
Build the plan, identify dependencies, make practical recommendations, and drive the work without waiting for detailed instructions.
Evaluate priorities through a commercial lens, including revenue opportunity, customer impact, cost, speed, risk, and organizational capacity.
Coordinate initiatives across retail, ecommerce, marketing, product development, design, shipping, warehouse, operations, finance, legal, recruiting, agencies, and external partners.
Identify stalled work early and drive resolution before delays become lost momentum or revenue.
Create clear ownership and follow-through across senior leaders and functional teams.
Push stakeholders for commitments, decisions, and completed work with professionalism and appropriate urgency.
Challenge unclear thinking, weak ownership, or misaligned priorities, including respectfully challenging the CEO when necessary.
Escalate missed commitments, unresolved dependencies, and meaningful business risks early.
Influence without formal authority while maintaining trust, discretion, and strong working relationships.
Build and maintain a clear operating view of company priorities, major projects, decisions, risks, and next actions.
Establish a disciplined weekly cadence for the CEO and leadership team without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
Create lightweight dashboards, decision logs, meeting structures, workflows, and SOPs that reduce dependence on memory and founder intervention.
Use modern AI tools and automation to reduce manual follow-up, improve visibility, and accelerate execution.
Identify recurring bottlenecks, unclear ownership, or unnecessary CEO involvement, then recommend and implement practical fixes.