Chief of Staff to EVP

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Position Overview

We are seeking a highly strategic, consultative, analytical, organized, and motivated Chief of Staff for a unique high-level opportunity supporting the EVP of Corporate Affairs, Chief Legal Officer (CLO). This person will partner closely with the Legal and Government Affairs and Public Policy (LGAPP) leadership team, acting as the enabler for strategic initiatives, organization-wide operations, and ensuring the execution of key priorities. You will work directly with the CLO and the C-staff COS to ensure all corporate-level goals and programs are planned and executed.

As a critical partner in the LGAPP leadership team, you will define and manage the rhythm of this group and coordinate business objectives and key results. You will be a pivotal player requiring influence, initiative, creativity, and resolve to ensure the team is well-positioned to execute. We seek someone agile with a wide range of capabilities to influence our culture, define our investments and strategic initiatives, and help create clarity and define success for the team.

You will build alignment on strategic initiatives with the Global LGAPP leadership team and the broader CEO Staff Chief of Staff organization, including planning, communicating, and operationalizing strategic activities for LGAPP. This role will also be responsible for the strategic direction of LGAPP’s internal communications and intentional gathering strategies. You will handle program management responsibilities for special projects or events, driving both strategy and execution.

Responsibilities

• Manage Leadership Staff Meetings: Plan and facilitate executive meetings together with the Executive Assistant to the CLO, including formulating the topics to cover, building, and advising agendas, guiding the discussion, enabling clear and effective decision making, bringing together notes and action items, and following up as appropriate

• Manage the organization’s strategic intent and strategic initiatives process and roadmap by leading the discussions, tracking all initiatives, verifying execution, and updating dashboards as needed

• Manage a small team of one or two individuals that will be responsible for communications, intentional gathering strategies and creating content for the Leader and her leadership team, including presentations and slides decks

• Lead special projects and programs that span throughout LGAPP and, in many cases, require cross-company collaboration

• Distill and synthesize strategic discussions into discernible, executable plans: Enable discussion while providing the connection points between strategic ideas

• Establish efficient and powerful status reporting on the health and performance of key initiatives and priorities and help drive to completion.

• Act as a trusted advisor to the CLO and the leadership team and be a sounding board on matters of strategy, execution, and operations

• Attend meetings, provide direction, and address inquiries or issues on behalf of the CLO as proxy

• Champion the employee engagement for the team

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in a tech business environment

• 10-15 years of experience in program management, management consulting, business operations, strategic planning or a similar function

• Outstanding facilitation skills

• Strong business acumen, critical thinking, problem solving, and organizational skills

• Excellent relationship building, influencing, and communication skills

• Proven record of seamless execution of complex projects

• Resourceful, flexible, and adaptable

• Ability to steer staff and constituents towards decisions

• Proven track record of ensuring accountability and results

• Bachelor's degree or higher; JD not required but experience in policy, legal or related corporate functions is a plus.

• Direct or indirect People Management experience 

• Excellent analytical, quantitative reasoning and strategic skills

The Ideal Candidate

• Is skilled at building effective relationships at multiple levels within a dynamic environment

• Has demonstrated the ability to quickly build trust and credibility with people

• Has a natural inclination for developing strong relationships and networks and able to work well with different personality types. It is imperative that s/he is an excellent and persuasive communicator with exceptional written, oral, interpersonal and presentation skills, and be a PowerPoint ninja

• Has the ability to foster an atmosphere of collaboration and partnership across the organization

• Is able to manage conversations, synthesizing multiple points of view, and aligning on direction all in an impartial and professional way

• Is an energetic and detailed-oriented leader who can effectively manage and empower people to achieve results

• Has a strong work ethic, a commitment to clear goals and measurable outcomes, an ability to learn quickly and work well in teams

• Has direct or indirect people management experience 

• Has impeccable judgment and discretion

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