Chief of Staff, Seso
$135-175k
Workforce platform focusing on the agricultural industry
Open for applications
Workforce platform focusing on the agricultural industry
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$135-175k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build the premier platform for agribusiness to hire and manage their workforce and improve the lives of agricultural workers.
Role
Who you are
- MBA or Bachelors with at least 3 years of equivalent practical experience
- Experience in sales strategy and business operations or management consulting highly desirable
- Low ego with high degree of ownership; extremely resourceful and scrappy
- Possess a sophisticated mix of emotional intelligence and people-centered acumen
- Executive-level written and verbal communication skills in order to interact with senior leadership and board members with confidence and poise
- Extremely process oriented with the ability to build structure and programs from scratch
- Confidence and professionalism in challenging leaders when appropriate
- Ability to structure a compelling storyline and build presentation decks and briefing documents
What the job involves
- Seso is looking for an accomplished and highly skilled Chief of Staff to join the team, reporting directly to the CEO and working closely with our executive team
- As Chief of Staff, you'll help drive organizational accountability in a variety of key business metrics
- You will be responsible for crafting and setting business priorities, shaping team engagement and communications strategy by strengthening the link between the leadership team and broader organization
- You will inevitably gain the visibility and experience into what it takes to lead a complex organization and assist in running business operations
- This role is highly collaborative, working with a broad range of colleagues across numerous functions and locations to help Seso remain on track to achieve business goals
- Drive organizational accountability across a variety of key business metrics
- Set business priorities, shape team engagement and company communications strategy by strengthening the link between the leadership team and the broader organization
- Work with our CEO, COO, and People team to design our short and long term org structures
- Identify opportunities across the org to drive process improvements, produce data-driven recommendations, and help program-manage high impact projects
- Work with Finance and RevOps in managing team budgets and projections, as well as building and supporting internal compensation framework for future roles
- Act as a filter for the executive team to ensure CXO time is spent on highest priority work
- Analyze business opportunities, new projects and verticals by researching market trends and opportunities
- Collaborate with the marketing team in developing internal communication collateral and and necessary tools to create clarity and and understanding of business initiatives across the company
- Support investor relations, including but not limited to monthly updates, reporting dashboards and board meetings
- Prepare meeting decks for the board, all hands, and exec strategy sessions
- Create additional leverage for the CEO by offloading ~30% of internal communications onto your plate
- Successfully drive 3 special projects to completion (e.g., pricing, ESG strategy, non-executive hiring, marketing content creation, etc.) and minimize CXO involvement in early stages of special projects
- Engage the executive team at the appropriate times for ongoing special projects
- Drive accountability and next steps across CEO’s highest priorities
- Proactively leverage the company’s investors/advisor network and the executive teams’ personal networks to create more leverage for the company across sales, hiring, PR, and product development
Our take
Sweeping changes to migration policy have created a dramatic labor shortage in the US agriculture industry. This has had significant knock-on effects on farmers, the communities they support, and the economy as a whole. Seso is setting out to help solve this problem with its innovative agricultural workforce platform.
Seso was founded by two former analysts who turned their expertise towards the underserved agricultural industry. Working to address labor shortages, Seso is streamlining the H-2A visa process for workers, giving farms access to a large network of legal migrant workers. The company is looking to develop and deploy more services for the workers themselves, as well as for their employers. This will create an impressively wide range of revenue lines for Seso moving forward.
With pressures on producers continuing to mount, demand for solutions like Seso's is likely to grow in the next decade. The company is well-positioned to take advantage of this trend, but it faces significant competition from larger H-2A worker program providers. As such, diversification will be key to Seso's continued survival.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2024
$26m
SERIES B
Apr 2022
$25m
SERIES A
Total funding: $55.5m
Company HQ
Central Waterfront, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Michael Guirguis
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Senior Associate at McKinsey, and was VP of Operations at Yup.com. Is currently a Fellow at Stanford Law School CodeX.
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