Chief of Staff (CTO)
About The Position
Help reinvent how housing gets designed, permitted, and built in America. Cedar is building the operating system for urban housing delivery. We combine architectural expertise with software, automation, and data systems to dramatically accelerate how projects move from land acquisition to approved designs and construction. The result: faster timelines, higher quality, lower risk, and more housing in the cities that need it most. Our team blends architects, engineers, and product builders. We design beautiful, responsive housing—and we build the software systems that make great architecture scalable.
Requirements
- Early in your career. Roughly 0–6 years, or an MBA looking for an operating role at a small company
- Cheerfully persistent: you'll ask a senior engineer the same question a third time without flinching
- Observant. You notice when something's off before it becomes a problem, and you say so rather than assuming someone else has it
- Organized by instinct, and you default to writing things down
- Comfortable holding senior people to commitments
- Someone who enjoys working in a fast-moving startup environment
Responsibilities
- Running sprint planning, monthly planning, and retros. Setting agendas, capturing decisions, publishing them
- Making sure every week is properly planned and everyone has high-value work loaded—flagging when someone's idle or pointed at the wrong thing
- Keeping the board honest and chasing every open commitment until it's closed or explicitly dropped
- Interrogating what didn't get finished and why, so the same slip doesn't repeat
- Watching for early signs of trouble (a stalled project, an engineer who's gone quiet, a decision nobody made) and raising them to the CTO while they're still small
- Scheduling and prepping meetings, then making sure the follow-ups actually happen
- Keeping our management rhythm on the rails. 1:1s, check-ins, and performance reviews happen on schedule, with prep done and notes captured
- Coordinating feedback cycles: setting up the conversations, chasing the inputs, making sure nothing stalls halfway
- Serving as engineering's interface to the rest of Cedar. Fielding requests, coordinating updates outward, and carrying issues from the team back in
- Cataloging and organizing incoming requests so nothing lands in a DM and disappears
- Building the lightweight process that keeps work legible. Definitions of done, written decisions, clear owners
- Coordinating interview loops and keeping the hiring pipeline moving (~10%)
- Onboarding, HR logistics, vendors, supplies, space, and team events (~10%)
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Meaningful equity ownership
- Healthcare, dental, and vision
- Early-stage ownership and impact
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
