Chief of Staff to CEO, Compass
$135-176.9k
5 days a week in office
Real estate technology platform
Be an early applicant
Real estate technology platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$135-176.9k
5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone find their place in the world.
Role
Who you are
- 10 years of work experience preferred, and ideally experience working in a fast paced environment or one with a high level of rigor (eg. management consulting)
- Someone who can build trust and create consensus among leaders in different functions in order to move things forward with alignment
- Being able to take something at this vision & concept level and bring it forward so it’s sustainably operating
- Someone skilled at navigating through ambiguity, change, and uncertainty while seeing around corners and highlighting risks and solutions to consider
- Someone who presentable, professional and comfortable in any meeting or setting and can make those they are engaging with feel heard
- This person should be excited to learn more about the company and how our business works with an eye towards a leadership role in the future
- Ideally this person worked in an agent facing role and can speak the language of agents
What the job involves
- The Chief of Staff to the CEO will play a critical role in helping the company achieve its mission
- As the Chief of Staff to the CEO, you are a strategic thinker and project manager who is passionate about solving the most important business and organizational problems
- In this role, you must work collaboratively alongside the CEO and the entire senior leadership team to drive business initiatives forward
- You will be required to move fast, dream big and be highly organized to juggle competing priorities while maintaining an extremely high quality output
- This role spans strategic planning, execution, analysis, communications, change management, operational excellence, senior level influence, stakeholder management, cross-functional collaboration, and special project management of top company initiatives
- Work alongside the CEO to help him achieve a highly efficient operating cadence, creating a process/system of accountability and follow up
- Work cross functionally to lead projects and initiatives forward as the key person driving them. These will include initiatives across all areas of the business at Compass
- Drive multiple complex decisions and workstreams forward on a regular basis
- Handle meetings with agents and employees to determine needs, asks and guidance
- Be present in meetings on the CEOs behalf to capture key insights
- Organize all key projects and items and work alongside the CEO to determine best uses of his time and where to prioritize
- Spending time within the organization to determine the pulse of things and identify net new opportunities for him to create impact
Our take
Compass uses an AI-driven platform to smooth out and speed up the process of buying, selling, or renting property. It functions much like a traditional broker, but employs tech to reduce the time, uncertainty, cost and friction of transactions for buyers, sellers & agents.
It's disrupting a sector so far largely averse to tech innovation, allowing users to close deals in less time than the industry average of 30-45 days. Compass is now the largest independent real estate brokerage in the USA, with over 29,000 agents nationwide.
Despite being a leading residential brokerage and competing well, Compass has remained unprofitable. While the company is replanning its cost structure to be profitable over the next year, it announced its third round of payoffs in early January 2023. Its profit-generating plans include expanding into mortgages, escrow & title services.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jul 2019
$370m
SERIES G
Sep 2018
$400m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company benefits
- Flexible Working
- Work From Home Opportunities
- Paid Vacation, Holidays, Sick Time
- Paid Parental, Marriage, and Recharge Leave
- Medical, Tele-Health, Dental and Vision Benefits
- 401(k) Plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Commuter Program
- Life and disability insurance
- Maven (a support system for new parents)
- Carrot (fertility benefits)
- UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Pet Insurance
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Robert Reffkin
(CEO)After 2 years at McKinsey, Robert worked as a Lazard Associate and White House Fellow. They joined Goldman Sachs in 2006, where they worked as VP of Principal Investment before leaving in 2012 to found Compass. Alongside this, Robert ran 50 marathons in 50 states to raise $1 million dollars for for youth education and enrichment programs.
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