Chief of Staff
Full-time, remote only, USA. $80-115K salary. Equity with 4-year vesting.
Do you enjoy creating processes that enable others to flourish? Does it excite you to experience first-hand what it‘s like to run an early-stage, high-growth tech startup?
Boost My School is looking for a Chief of Staff to join our team
passionate about helping schools set all their students up for success.
Why work at Boost My School?
1. Be proud of your impact helping schools and students
- Boost is trusted by hundreds of K-12 and higher ed customers to raise $50M a year from 60,000 families and donors
- Every Boost team member has clear accountability over results that directly impact the success of our company and customers
- Our business model is designed so that we succeed only when our customers succeed
2. Work with thoughtful teammates building a champion company together
- Openly view all company communication outside of personal matters - we mostly communicate over Slack public channels and Notion public wikis
- Openly view company, team, and individual performance metrics
- Use our weekly No Meetings Day to get uninterrupted work done (or to do your laundry while you work)
- Take on tasks in which you have the final say over your manager or the CEO
- Receive regular professional development through weekly 1-on-1s and quarterly career check-ins
- Get to know your remote teammates at our annual week-long in-person retreats and our optional coworking weeks
3. Join a culture that wants you to be your best self at work and outside of work
- Internal meetings are scheduled during our core working hours (12pm to 4pm ET) so you have more flexibility over your time
- Take care of errands or pick up your kids as long as you communicate accountability over the things you’re responsible for
- Our company calendar is aligned with the school year - we have 15 company days off across major holidays and Summer Fridays
- Outside of the 15 company days off, we suggest taking an additional 10 to 15 days off, and require taking 1 week of continuous time off per calendar year
- Company covers medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums and out-of-pocket expenses through QSEHRA ($487/mo for individuals, up to $983/mo for those with families)
- Use your remote working stipend ($200/mo) for your internet bill, to buy lunch, or for professional development
Responsibilities
- Take on any type of internal, non-technical responsibilities to allow our Founder/CEO to be more strategic
- Run weekly all-hands meetings, monthly team check-ins, quarterly coworking weeks, and our annual retreat
- Create processes to manage OKRs, 1:1s, hiring, and performance reviews
- Lead remote culture efforts like social events and virtual celebrations
- Manage our internal wiki (Notion) and docs (Google Drive)
- Support HR, finance, and legal responsibilities (Gusto, Quickbooks, Clerky)
- Step in to support go-to-market operations (e.g. set up Hubspot CRM & automations)
- Assist with financial models and monthly investor updates
- Opportunity to grow with the company into our operations leader, if you consistently achieve goals and exhibit the habits needed to succeed in the larger role
About you
- You build champion habits: You set yourself up to be a champion by continuously improving what you do day-to-day
- You communicate accountability: You proactively share updates about your responsibilities so your teammates know you’re holding yourself accountable
- You use radical candor: You proactively use radical candor so that your teammates trust you to deliver critical feedback
- You move fast with purpose: You make decisions and execute quickly so that you both succeed and learn faster
- 3+ years of experience in a strategic or operations role. Ideally at a B2B SaaS company
- Comfort and confidence to be an operations jack-of-all-trades – your responsibilities will range from creating processes to analyzing financials to building culture
- Bonus: You’re a past or future startup founder
- Bonus: You’re familiar with the school fundraising industry - e.g. you helped raise money for your school or you know what “advancement” means
If you want to apply for this position
Please email [email protected] with:
- your LinkedIn or resume
- why you would excel in this position at Boost My School
- explanation of a process that you created for others that you’re proud of