Chief of Staff, Portex
Offers equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Logistics procurement and management
Open for applications
Logistics procurement and management
1-20 employees
Open for applications
Offers equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
1-20 employees
Company mission
To make freight procurement and payment simple, standardized and transparent for all.
Role
Who you are
- Has 3+ years of consulting, strategy, and/or financial services experience
- Has 1-3 years in an operating role at an early-stage B2B SaaS startup (Seed or Series A)
- Can operate at the same strategic level and rate-of-change as the CEO, who possesses the independence of thought critical to building a high-growth, constantly-evolving business
- Can get into the weeds and execute at a high level even when given relatively little direction
- Is able to quickly identify signals from noise and the highest-efficiency tactics to solve any problem
- Is highly efficient at getting things done and can right-size the quality of their work to what is needed for the specific task or project
- Is very detail-oriented, especially when it comes to content that is going out to investors or customers
- Is not only organized themselves but excellent at organizing and aligning the team against the work that needs to be done to accomplish our goals
- Is able to build a disciplined operating rhythm for the business yet flexible enough to respond to high-value opportunities in real-time
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Chief of Staff to partner with the CEO on a daily basis and build Portex from the ground up
- This person must have prior B2B SaaS experience at an early-stage startup (Seed or Series A)
- In this role, you will be a mini CEO/COO where you must not only be comfortable, but you can thrive while balancing 5+ projects at once across various workstreams
- No task is too big or too small, you are a generalist who is down to roll up your sleeves and do the work
- You must be comfortable putting in 60+ hours a week as we push to hit our next crucial milestones
- The role is an incredible opportunity to have a massive impact and help define the strategy of an early-stage startup disrupting an insanely large and critical industry
- If you are scrappy, analytical, entrepreneurial, and love to move fast, we want to hear from you
- The main functions you will be helping to drive are:
- Operations (Finance/Legal/HR/IT/Admin)
- Sales Ops, Customer Success, and GTM Operations
- Analytics
- Investor Relations
- Work directly with the CEO (former leading salesperson at both Flexport and Uber) as a thought partner to develop our strategy and planning
- Build runway models, and revenue forecasts, analyze current business performance, and assess market opportunities
- Oversee the daily operations, tracking, and assessment of the business across company strategy/goals, growth/usage metrics, and finance/expenses
- Build out early business functions and prepare a process and playbook to scale them (ideally, you’ll eventually hire to hand over these functions)
- Manage sales ops, GTM ops, and customer success to ensure we hit our customer growth goals
- Support CEO with sales materials, investor updates, fundraising and go-to-market efforts
- Operationalize and manage manual tests of potential revenue-generating opportunities
- Manage all the day to day operational tasks that keep the business running (e.g. vendor management, employee onboarding, compliance, expense management, IT, etc)
- Drive special projects and constantly think of new ways to add value to the business (e.g. through partnerships, growth/product ideas, experiments, etc)
Application process
- The screener questions help us to understand your experience a little deeper before jumping on a call
- If there are any you would like to skip for now just include NA
Our take
Small and mid-sized companies often lose out on freight bids due to fragmented communication and time-consuming manual tasks. Portex’s target customer base is SMEs, for whom it has built a cloud-based platform to centralize communication with all stops in the freight and logistics pipeline. Its platform helps the underserved SME market to manage freight bids, quotes, shipment status, and carrier performance.
Portex’s software is not just designed for SME efficiency but empowers the shippers too. Its broker-agnostic system means that freight shipping companies can balance their pricing and service needs with the requirements of the SMEs bidding for their space. Portex’s smart analytics system ensures that customers spend 80% less time on freight tasks and slashes costs by 30%.
Portex has enjoyed steady growth since its founding in 2020. It’s on track to reach an important milestone of $100 million in annualized freight booking, coinciding with a seed raise of $6.3 million in 2024. These funds will be used to accelerate its AI product development.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2024
$6.3m
SEED
Total funding: $6.3m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brittany Ennix
(Founder & CEO)Previously a Global Account Executive at Flexport. They also worked in Business Development at Uber and Sidecar Technologies and worked in Strategic Partnerships and Growth for Soldsie.
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