Chief of Staff to the CTO

Role Title: Chief of Staff to the Chief Technology Officer

LOCATION: We are focused on identifying local candidates who can work a hybrid office-based position (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) in the team’s Boston, Massachusetts location. This role is not eligible for remote work.About the Role ==================

Validity is seeking an experienced Chief of Staff (COS) to amplify the contributions of our CTO as he leads 100+ engineers, product managers, and specialists during one of the most exciting times in our company's history. This is not an executive assistant, project manager, or operational administrator role. The COS is someone who thinks and makes decisions like a CTO/CPO, communicates with board-level fluency, and earns credibility with senior leaders through insights, preparation, follow-through, and speed to quality results. The COS understands the cost and missed opportunity resulting from misallocating the CTO's time and extends the CTO’s presence strategically across multiple competing priorities, ensuring none lose momentum. The COS will be incredibly strategically positioned within the company as a result of their proximity to the decisions and relationships that matter most.Position Duties and Responsibilities ========================================

• Amplify the CTO’s contributions by representing him in cross-functional executive conversations, steering committees, and strategic working sessions - not as a note-taker, but as a proxy who can make judgment calls, commit resources, and hold peers accountable.
• Invest time developing deep synchronization with the CTO. Learn how he makes decisions, observe what factors and dependencies he considers, and develop an understanding of how he makes trade-offs to achieve overall goals.
• Own the operating rhythm of the CTO’s organization: leadership reviews, planning cycles, key performance conversations, and strategic offsites - ensuring these are high-quality and lead to...