Chief of Staff, Floodbase
$130-160k
Additionally, this individual will receive equity compensation and a competitive benefits package
AI & satellite flood tracking
Be an early applicant
AI & satellite flood tracking
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$130-160k
Additionally, this individual will receive equity compensation and a competitive benefits package
21-100 employees
Company mission
To enable all communities to prepare and respond to climate disasters by reducing the barriers to scientific information and capital.
Role
Who you are
- 2-4 years at a top consulting firm or equivalent; 1-2 years at a fast-paced startup
- Skilled in financial modeling
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail
- Excellent at translating data into insight, conducting research, and presenting scenarios in a compelling manner to decision-makers
- Excellent at communicating to and collaborating with a diversity of stakeholders including investors, board members, and all levels of an organization
- Action-oriented, take deep ownership, and effective in a fast-moving, but ambiguous environment
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Chief of Staff to partner closely with our CEO and executive team to help drive strategy and execution across our growing business
- This role reports to the CEO and requires a highly organized, analytical, independent, and impact-driven individual capable of taking on a broad set of responsibilities at the heart of a category-leading climatetech company
- You would play a central role for a broad set of responsibilities spanning strategic projects, investor relations, finance, team performance and more
- Strategic Projects
- Serve as the escalation point before the CEO and the executive team across various functions
- Coordinate company-wide quarterly and annual planning
- Lead many strategic initiatives such as: market assessments, new process development, team off sites, AI integration for systems, vendor selections, and more for the CEO and leadership team
- Investor Relations & Fundraising
- Help manage communication with the board of directors and investors, building coherent narratives about the progress, goals and needs of the company in slide decks and written memos; includes creating the first version of quarterly board decks
- Support fundraising by leading financial modeling, supporting narrative and strategy development, maintaining our data room, and more
- Finance & Compliance
- Facilitate our Finance Function including facilitating annual financial planning, budgeting, business model analysis, and our external accounting firms; done in conjunction with outside CFO support if needed
- Proactively develop and maintain strategies to ensure we’re meeting insurance regulatory compliance and partner standards
- Team Performance & Hiring
- Work with hiring managers to support recruiting efforts, improve candidate experience, and oversee a thoughtful onboarding experience
- Oversee the core operational systems of the company by supporting the Operations Function in decision-making and serving as the first point of escalation
- Ensure high levels of internal performance and job satisfaction by facilitating the company’s performance review, promotion, and compensation planning cycles
Our take
As natural disasters increase in occurrence due to climate change, Floodbase is addressing the uneven preemption times of insurers and government bodies by mapping and tracking potential floods through satellite imagery. Floobase uses the data collected to influence insurance claims and help communities prepare and respond to oncoming floods.
Founded by Masters students at Yale University, Floodbase’s prototype was supported by Google and quickly gained interest from investors due to its convergence of social and financial adaptation goals. Backed by several major low carbon investment firms, Floodbase’s photography has been featured on the front cover of major publications and its technology has been used by the United Nations to help improve disaster response times.
With plenty of capital behind it, Floodbase has little in the way of competition and is using its technical capabilities to develop new types of flood insurance for vulnerable communities.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2025
$5m
EARLY VC
Jan 2023
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $37.6m
Company HQ
Downtown Brooklyn, NY
Leadership
Beth Tellman
(Co-Founder & Chief Scientist)Currently Assistant Professor at University of Arizona. Previously Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia University and MA Environmental Science at Yale University.
Bessie Schwarz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Strategist at Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Research Affiliate at Data Pop Alliance and Field Doctor at Environment Colorado.
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