We are very specifically looking for a candidate who has spent 4-5 years in a strategy consulting firm, and is looking to take their toolkit and experience into a PE backed portfolio company.
About the Company
Our client is a fast growing PE backed marketing and fundraising agency serving mission-driven organizations across North America. We partner with leading nonprofits to drive sustainable revenue growth, deepen donor engagement, and build modern, resilient organizations. Our model brings together strategy, data, creative, media, and technology to help clients move beyond campaign-based thinking toward always-on, system-driven growth.
We are entering our next phase of evolution — transforming how we operate, how we go to market, and how we deliver for clients. This includes investing in talent, modernizing our commercial engine, embedding AI-enabled capabilities, and building a more disciplined, execution-focused operating model.
About the Role
To support this next chapter, we are hiring a Chief of Staff to the CEO. This is a high-impact, highly operational role. The Chief of Staff will act as a true extension of the CEO — driving strategic initiatives, establishing operating discipline, and ensuring execution happens at pace across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Drive Strategic Initiatives: Own and drive execution of highest-priority growth initiatives across the business.
- Stay Three Steps Ahead: Operate as a forward-looking partner to the CEO — anticipating needs, identifying gaps, and ensuring the organization is prepared for what’s coming next.
- Build the Operational Rhythm: Design and implement the operating backbone of the company, including ways of working, KPI frameworks, dashboards, and execution cadences that drive accountability and results.
Qualifications
A. Strategic Initiative Leadership
- Work alongside CEO and senior leaders to support in driving execution across 5 core priorities:
Talent Transformation
- Redesign and support the rollout of talent management and performance frameworks
- Build and scale a new recruiting capability
- Develop an approach to learning and development capabilities
- Shape and implement a differentiated onboarding experience
- Ensure goals are clearly defined and cascaded across the organization
Marketing as a Demand Engine
- Shift marketing from a top-of-funnel support function to a demand generation engine
- Develop and rollout an approach to account-based marketing
- Build structured lead generation capabilities across channels
- Standup a content creation factory to be used when targeting prospects
- Partner closely with sales to drive pipeline creation and conversion
Value Proposition and Go-to-Market Enablement
- Refresh and sharpen the value proposition across Marketing within different brands
- Arm sales and client account teams with clarity on capabilities and offerings
- Create practical sales enablement tools and sales assets
- Enable teams to consistently and effectively communicate our value
AI and Agentic Capability Build
- Drive adoption of AI to improve internal efficiency and service delivery
- Shape AI-enabled client offerings across strategy, piloting, and implementation
- Build capability to serve as an AI advisory partner to clients
Client Delivery and Experience Transformation
- Support the transformation of delivery capabilities to improve quality and speed
- Evolve delivery to feel more like a high-touch, boutique experience at scale
- Transform client service from reactive to proactive through new ways of working
- Support in shaping initiatives to drive improvement in client retention and satisfaction
Required Skills
- Establish and run the company’s operating cadence
- Build KPI frameworks and dashboards that provide clear visibility into performance
- Drive accountability across the leadership team for strategic priorities
- Ensure initiatives move from idea to plan to execution to measurable outcomes
Preferred Skills
- 4-5 years in a strategy consulting firm OR similar in a PE backed portfolio company
- Act as an extension of the CEO in key meetings, initiatives, and follow-ups
- Prepare materials, synthesize insights, translate decisions into action
- Proactively identify risks and opportunities
- Improve leadership team effectiveness through structure, clarity, and follow-through
Pay range and compensation package
We are looking for a high-agency, high-capability operator who thrives in fast-paced, transformation environments.
Equal Opportunity Statement
We are committed to diversity and inclusivity.
