About this role
You can operate at both strategic and tactical levels — acting as a trusted partner, gatekeeper, and confidant. With a proven COO already in place, this role is focused on optimizing the CEO’s time, priorities, and confidential initiatives, and SLT operations management.
You're also tech savvy, innovative, and in ChatGTP/AI, every day at a medium to advanced super user level.
Core Responsibilities
Strategic Alignment: Translate CEO/Board vision into clear company priorities, OKRs, and execution plans.
Operational Excellence: Drive cross-functional initiatives, process improvements, and systems that support growth.
Leadership Enablement: Prepare CEO for board, investor, and client engagements; manage executive meetings and follow-ups.
Decision Support: Provide research, data, and analysis to inform strategic decisions.
Communication Hub: Act as liaison between CEO, leadership team, and wider organization.
Special Projects: Lead high-impact initiatives (new market entry, acquisitions, organizational scaling).
Day-to-Day Duties
Running and facilitating executive leadership meetings, ensuring follow-through.
Tracking key metrics, projects, and accountability against company goals.
Drafting CEO communications (internal and external).
Coordinating investor and board materials.
Identifying bottlenecks and resolving cross-departmental issues.
Driving “CEO-only” projects to completion without constant oversight.
Serving as an early warning system for risks or gaps in execution
7–12+ years’ experience supporting CEOs/Founders in entrepreneurial, fast-scaling small and medium size, award winning companies
Worked for a 100-300 staff company during their growth curve ideally twice, for 3-5+ years (candidates)
Comfortable managing and facilitating executive director board-level meetings, notes, materials, investors, VVIPs, and confidential projects, while also handling calendar, travel
Deep business understanding of D2C/eCommerce/digital marketing/digital marketplace models/online training courses/digital coaching apps
Passionate about one or more sports, health, wellness, fitness, supplements, at an advanced level like a biohacker
Based in remote USA
Jonathan Pearson at BluZinc will be in touch soon with the best qualified applications.
Other facts
About BluZinc
BluZinc is a Consultancy with expertise in People Strategy, EVP, Executive Recruitment, Senior Appointments, Interim Management & Advisory Consultancy with a focus on talent acquisition and selection and retention to create resilient, sustainable teams for growth in D2C digital marketplaces and eCommerce in with client full time and fractional job openings in:
HEALTH : NUTRITION : WELL-BEING : SUSTAINABLE ENERGY : BUSINESS EDUCATION : TRAINING : DIGITAL : ECOMMERCE : TECHNOLOGY : MARKETING : FINTECH : RETAIL : FASHION : ORGANICS : FOOD : BEVERAGES
USA number & whatsapp: +13322870745
Most of our customers are in remote USA teams in Austin, San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles Area, Denver, Atlanta, New York, Seattle, Miami, Vancouver, Toronto and London, UK.
If you are a Manager, Director / VP or Chief Officer within digital, technology, creative, marketing, eCommerce, finance, operations or HR our Consultants can provide:
- Co-branded media and hiring campaigns
- Confidential Search and Selection for Employees / W2 Hires :
- Executive Recruitment & Management Job Opportunities
- Strategy & Target Operating Models, (ToM) : Business & Enterprise Architecture
- Interim Managers : Contractors : Project/Programme Teams : 1099
- Train, coach, mentor your HR or Recruiter team in the BluZinc Method
You will find many of our client Success on our website and social digital channels. Year on year, >85% of clients we have worked with have been by referral only and are long term repeat business relationships.
What you'll do
- The Chief of Staff will translate the CEO's vision into clear company priorities and drive operational excellence through cross-functional initiatives. They will also prepare the CEO for engagements and manage executive meetings.
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