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Salary: USD 161,532 - 242,298 / annual
Re:Build Manufacturing is seeking a Chief of Staff, Digital & Product to serve as a trusted strategic partner to the Chief Digital and Product Officer. This is a high-impact role combining strategic thinking, operational execution, and organizational leadership.
Key Responsibilities:
Executive Leverage & Strategic Leadership: Act as an extension of the CDPO, owning high-priority initiatives from definition through execution. Translate strategic direction into clear priorities, decisions, and milestones. Provide independent analysis to strengthen executive decision-making and represent the CDPO on delegated cross-functional efforts.
Digital, Product & Strategic Initiatives: Partner with Digital & Product leaders to evaluate emerging technologies, product opportunities, partnerships, and strategic priorities. Conduct deep-dive analysis, develop business cases and investment theses, and create implementation roadmaps. Pressure-test assumptions, challenge conventional thinking, and step into complex or stalled initiatives to create structure and momentum. Remain engaged through implementation to ensure recommendations translate into measurable outcomes.
Cross-Functional Execution & Organizational Effectiveness: Work across Re:Build's businesses and enterprise functions to advance priorities requiring broad participation. Convene stakeholders, establish alignment, clarify decision rights, and resolve obstacles. Influence senior leaders and build coalitions without formal authority. Identify dependencies, risks, and organizational barriers. Help strengthen coordination, operating discipline, and organizational effectiveness. Create transparency around progress, risks, decisions, and accountability.
About Re:Build: Re:Build operates an advanced, end-to-end manufacturing platform partnering with industrial companies and innovators to take products from concept to full-scale production in critical verticals including aerospace and defense, electrification, medical, energy and environment, and robotics and automation. The mission is to revitalize America's manufacturing base and create meaningful jobs across the country, including in historically deindustrialized regions.
Requirements:
Required:
- 10+ years of progressively responsible experience across strategy, technology, product, engineering, operations, consulting, business development, or similarly complex environments with increasing scope and complexity
- Experience working closely with senior executives such as CTO, Chief Digital Officer, Chief Product Officer, CEO, or business unit president, ideally within technology, engineering, manufacturing, or industrial businesses
- Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept through execution
- Strong ability to structure ambiguous problems, rapidly develop command of unfamiliar subjects, and translate complexity into clear recommendations and decisions
- Strong business judgment, analytical capability, and ability to influence senior leaders and drive outcomes without direct authority
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Intellectual curiosity, resourcefulness, comfort operating with limited direction, and strong bias toward action, ownership, and measurable outcomes
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, business, economics, or related field, or equivalent relevant experience
Preferred:
- Experience launching new products, businesses, technologies, or organizational capabilities
- Experience evaluating emerging technologies and translating them into practical business applications
- Experience supporting or leading strategic partnerships, investment decisions, M&A, or technology diligence
- Experience operating within decentralized or matrixed organizations
- Technical or engineering background combined with strong commercial and strategic judgment
- Advanced degree such as MBA, M.S. in engineering or computer science, or another relevant technical or business discipline
