Chief Of Staff Jobs in Los Angeles, TX

About The Position

Requirements

• A track record of owning — not contributing to — a 7- or 8-figure engagement at a top-tier consulting firm (McKinsey, BCG, Bain) or equivalent, where you ran the team, owned the client relationship, and were on the hook for the outcome
• Commercial leadership. You've sold follow-on work to a CFO who told you no the first time. You know what it feels like to write an engagement letter that has to actually deliver
• Executive presence. You hold a room of C-suite stakeholders, push back on a COO without losing them, and make a CFO feel like you understand their P&L better than their own team does
• First-principles thinker. You don't reach for the framework or the template — you reason from the actual business problem and back into a recommendation that holds up under stress-testing
• People leadership. You've run a team of consultants or operators and made them better. Your reports have gone on to do bigger things because of how you ran your engagements
• Founder or operator instincts. You've built something, run a P&L, or owned an operating function — and you know what it feels like when the work actually has to ship, not just get presented
• AI-native. You use AI tools every day, you've followed the space closely, and you have a real point of view on where agents work, where they don't, and what's coming next. You can scope an AI implementation and communicate clearly with engineers about what to build
• Extreme ownership. You run your accounts with minimal oversight, and you're accountable for the outcome, not the output
• Based in SF or willing to relocate.
• Comfortable with 25-40% travel to client sites.

Nice To Haves

• Engagement Manager / Senior Engagement Manager / Associate Principal at MBB (McKinsey, BCG, Bain), especially with a digital, AI, finance, or operations focus
• Principal or VP at a top-tier strategy firm (Deloitte S&O, Accenture Strategy, Oliver Wyman) with real C-suite client ownership and a track record of follow-on sales
• Principal or VP at a top investment bank or PE firm with operating-side exposure to portfolio companies
• Former COO, VP Operations, or Chief of Staff at a high-growth company — you've sat on the buy side of a consulting engagement and know what makes one actually work
• Founder or early operator at a company that sold into the enterprise, particularly into the office of the CFO or COO
• Hands-on experience deploying AI tools in a real business context, even if you weren't the one writing the code

Responsibilities

• Lead the team on the ground — Forward Deployed Strategists and Engineers report to you during the engagement, and you're accountable for what they ship and how the client experiences it
• Sit across from CFOs, COOs, and CROs — run the executive cadence, present findings, defend recommendations under pressure, and negotiate scope without giving away the room
• Run the commercial motion end to end — first meeting, pre-meeting brief, post-meeting follow-up, custom demo, engagement letter, expansion — and tighten the playbook for everyone behind you
• Translate ambiguous business problems into engagements with clear outcomes, ROI targets, and exec sponsors — and hold the line on scope when clients try to drift
• Expand accounts post-deployment — map the org, find the next set of high-leverage workflows, and convert one engagement into three
• Feed every account back into Varick's playbooks, patterns, and platform so the next EM moves twice as fast

Benefits

• You own the full loop and the team running it: find the problem, frame it, scope the solution, lead delivery, see it ship, see it run, sell what comes next
• The work looks more like running your own boutique advisory practice — with an engineering team behind you and a platform compounding underneath you — than a typical consulting or operating job
• Small, early team. Your judgment shapes the product, the playbooks, the comp bands for everyone you hire next, and how Varick scales. You'll sit next to Daniel Kornum (Lead FDE, ex-COO of Citadel Securities EMEA, ex-McKinsey) and Vas (CEO), and you'll be in every important room
• Direct access to operators and executives (CFOs, COOs, ops leads), with none of the layers, decks-for-decks-sake, or process overhead of a traditional firm
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
• Employment is subject to a standard confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement.