Chief of Staff, VSCO

• We're hiring a Chief of Staff who gets genuine energy from making things run well, and who wants to learn how a real company grows by doing the actual work, not studying it
• If you're 5+ years into your career, are wired to execute, and want to compress a decade of business education into a few years of real work, this is that opportunity
• 5+ years of experience in operations, consulting, strategy, business development, or a cross-functional startup role
• Demonstrated ability to run complex, multi-stakeholder projects from kickoff to completion
• Strong systems thinker: you build processes that scale, not workarounds that hold
• Executive partnership: you are comfortable partnering with the CEO and other senior executives, asking difficult questions, challenging assumptions respectfully, and driving accountability across leadership teams
• Excellent written communicator: you write clearly and concisely, whether it's a decision memo or a company update
• Strong synthesizer: you take ambiguous information and turn it into clear recommendations that reduce complexity and help people drive outcomes quickly
• High judgment and discretion: you know what to escalate, what to handle, and what to let go
• Genuinely curious about business: how companies grow, how teams operate, how decisions get made
• Fluent using AI tools: you use them to work faster and think better, not as a substitute for judgment, are able to elevate others to use them in a best-in-class way

Desirable

• You'll work directly with VSCO's CEO to drive execution across the full company: owning high-stakes projects, building the operating rhythms that keep a fast-moving team aligned, and making sure what matters on Monday actually happens by Friday
• You'll touch everything: planning, hiring, product, go-to-market, finance, and culture. You'll be trusted to figure things out without waiting to be asked. In return, you'll get something genuinely rare: direct mentorship from a deeply experienced CEO, unfiltered access to how strategic decisions get made, and a front-row seat to building a company that helps photographers turn their passion into a profession
• This role reports directly to the CEO
• Own the company's operating cadence: weekly leadership syncs, monthly business reviews, quarterly and annual planning
• Track priorities, decisions, and commitments across the leadership team; make sure nothing important falls through the cracks
• Build lightweight systems that keep teams aligned and moving without adding bureaucracy
• Be the CEO's closest day-to-day operational partner: anticipate needs, manage inbound priorities, and protect focus on the highest-leverage work
• Serve as a strategic sparring partner to the CEO: pressure-test ideas, challenge assumptions, and help sharpen thinking before it goes anywhere important
• Prepare the CEO for high-stakes conversations with crisp briefing materials, clear decision framing, and the right context
• Draft memos, strategic updates, and communications on behalf of the CEO; act as a trusted proxy when the CEO can't be in the room
• Lead initiatives that don't fit neatly inside one function: planning processes, org design, go-to-market launches, vendor relationships, internal tooling
• Identify where cross-functional work is stalling; surface ownership gaps, resolve friction, and drive follow-through
• Be the person who can be dropped into any problem and trusted to figure it out
• Support board meeting prep, investor communications, and company-wide all-hands
• Partner with our People team on headcount planning, new hire onboarding, and leadership team offsites
• Help design and communicate internal processes that reflect how VSCO works and what it stands for

• The application window for this role will be open until at least August 28th. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date