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Quindar is seeking a Chief of Staff to amplify CEO effectiveness as the company scales. This is a 12–24 month role with a clear path to becoming a key leader; founders are encouraged to apply.
You will drive the CEO's highest-priority initiatives, prepare for critical internal and external engagements, run the CEO-facing leadership cadence, and own high-priority special projects. You'll coordinate across executives and functions to translate CEO priorities into action and prevent important work from stalling.
Key Responsibilities:
Drive CEO Priorities: Translate CEO priorities into clear actions, owners, deadlines, and decisions. Keep critical initiatives moving when the CEO is focused on customers, fundraising, or other priorities. Surface blockers and determine where CEO involvement is required. Serve as a thought partner on strategic and organizational issues.
Executive Communications & Preparation: Prepare presentations, briefing materials, talking points, and decision memos for Board, investor, commercial/government customer, and partner engagements. Support company-wide and executive communications. Turn complex topics into concise narratives, recommendations, and decisions. Coordinate inputs and preparation for high-stakes meetings, typically related to U.S. National Security.
Leadership Cadence & Follow-Through: Prepare agendas for leadership meetings around priorities, week-over-week changes, risks, and decisions required. Pre-wire important topics with appropriate executives. Track decisions, actions, owners, and deadlines and ensure follow-through. Partner with Business Operations on company metrics, planning, and underlying operating processes.
Own Special Projects: Take ownership of urgent or strategic initiatives that lack a natural owner or require CEO-level attention. Create structure around ambiguous problems and drive them through resolution. Coordinate cross-functional initiatives spanning Growth, Product, Engineering, Programs, and Operations. Support major captures, partnerships, executive hiring, AI adoption, fundraising, or critical customer situations.
Quindar operates in the space/aerospace sector and works on cutting-edge programs. The company emphasizes work-life balance with 15 mandatory days off plus unlimited PTO, comprehensive health insurance with 100% employee coverage, 4% 401(k) matching, and quarterly wellness benefits. Annual 4-day company offsites rotate across US locations.
Requirements:
- Understanding of National Security programs and initiatives
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Strong operator who can take ambiguous problems from idea through execution
- High ownership, urgency, and bias toward closing loops
- Excellent judgment and ability to work independently with senior executives
- Strong analytical skills and comfort with business, financial, and operating metrics
- Ability to move fluidly between strategy and detailed execution
- Low ego and comfortable influencing without formal authority
- U.S. citizenship or national status, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card), Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State (ITAR compliance required)
