Chief of Staff, LaunchDarkly
$240-330k
OTE
OTE is inclusive of 10% Bonus Target
Feature management for software teams
Open for applications
Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$240-330k
OTE
OTE is inclusive of 10% Bonus Target
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for someone with deep experience navigating complex, cross-functional environments and a strong executive presence who is excited to have broad influence without people management responsibilities
- Typically requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience, preferably in senior-level roles involving strategy, operations, consulting, finance, product operations, or executive advisory work
- Demonstrated success partnering closely with executive leaders and influencing at the highest levels of an organization
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complexity into clear, compelling narratives
- Strong analytical capabilities and comfort working with SaaS metrics and executive-level data
- Ability to manage multiple, high-impact workstreams with sound judgment and prioritization
- High degree of discretion, integrity, and emotional intelligence
What the job involves
- LaunchDarkly is hiring a Chief of Staff to partner closely with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team (ELT) as the company continues to scale
- This is a senior, individual contributor role for a strategic operator and trusted advisor who thrives at the intersection of strategy, execution, communication, and data
- As Chief of Staff, you’ll help translate company strategy into action, shape executive-level planning and decision-making, and ensure leadership discussions are grounded in clear insights and high-quality materials
- You’ll operate with significant autonomy, exercise wide latitude in how work gets done, and act as a thought partner to senior leaders across the organization
- Strategic Leadership & Cross-Functional Execution
- Partner with the CEO to drive company-wide strategic initiatives from conception through execution
- Help align the Executive Leadership Team and broader organization around priorities, tradeoffs, and outcomes
- Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and gaps across critical initiatives and surface insights to leadership
- Act as connective tissue across executives and teams to ensure strategy translates into coordinated action
- Operating Cadence & Company Planning
- Shape and support LaunchDarkly’s operating rhythm, including quarterly business reviews and leadership planning processes
- Design and evolve planning frameworks that enable effective executive decision-making
- Support annual and long-range planning cycles, synthesizing inputs and highlighting strategic implications
- Executive & Company Communications
- Lead the preparation and refinement of executive-level materials, including Board meeting materials, ELT presentations, and All-Company communications
- Ensure executive content is clear, concise, decision-oriented, and aligned with company strategy
- Data, Insights & Analysis
- Partner on executive dashboards and reporting, ensuring metrics are accurate, consistent, and actionable
- Analyze and understand data to inform strategic decisions and evaluate proposed initiatives
- Translate analysis into clear recommendations for senior leadership audiences
- Executive Meetings & Offsites
- Design agendas and content for executive meetings and off-sites with a focus on alignment and outcomes
- Capture key decisions, clarify next steps, and support follow-through across the organization
Our take
Feature flags are a powerful software development tool, allowing teams to modify system behavior without changing code, therefore minimizing risk. If a business has a new feature they want to test, they can then roll it out to a small set of users before letting it go live. These companies can, for example, get quick feedback on the new feature and fix any bugs, or roll back any changes.
LaunchDarkly allows companies to run tests like this by activating the new code for only a small set of users prior to launch. Typically running these tests requires lots of developer time - a daunting and expensive prospect for most rapidly growing businesses - and can risk disruption to the user experience if testing takes place on the live product.
Demonstrating its value to businesses, the platform is used by the likes of IBM, Intuit and Atlassian. Recently it has seemed to focus on further scaling its growth as it develops towards being a leading business in the feature management space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Jan 2020
$54m
LATE VC
Total funding: $330.3m
Company benefits
- Full Vision
- Full Dental
- Full Medical
- Flexible Schedule
- Healthy Lunches & Snacks
- Conference & Meetup Access
- Education Stipend
- Personalized Work Station
- Close to Public Transportation
- Bike Parking
- Team Activities
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Lakeside, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Edith Harbaugh
(Co-founder, Executive Chair & CEO)Worked as a Product Manager at Vignette, Monster Worldwide, and PlantSense. Previously Product Director at TripIt.
John Kodumal
(Co-founder & CTO)Prior to co-founding LaunchDarkly was Software Development Manager at Atlassian and Bytecode Anaylsis Architect for Coverity.
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