Chief of Staff the CEO

<strong>About Valiantys<br></strong>Valiantys is a global professional services firm dedicated to helping engineering and service organizations transform how they work, using AI-enabled software delivery, modern ITSM, and platform engineering.<br><br><strong>The opportunity<br></strong>We're hiring a Chief of Staff to support the CEO. This role exists to increase the CEO's leverage, strengthen executive alignment, and improve the quality and pace of key decisions. It is not a substitute for operating leadership and does not own day-to-day company operations. Instead, the Chief of Staff acts as an extension of the CEO to drive clarity, follow-through, and executive coherence across the leadership team.<br><br><strong>Location:</strong> This role can be located in the United States, (EST, New York City preferred). We offer flexible remote working policy.<br><br><strong>What You'll Own<br></strong><strong>Operating cadence<br></strong>Design and run the executive operating rhythm across a distributed leadership team. This includes C-suite meeting design, leadership team offsites, and the CEO's 1:1 cadence - ensuring each forum has a clear purpose, the right participants, the right pre-work, and concrete outputs.<br><br><strong>Decision governance<br></strong>Build and maintain the decision-making infrastructure for the exec team: RACI frameworks, decision logs, real-time commitment tracking. Make the implicit explicit. Document decisions as they're made, track what was decided, by whom, and what happens next.<br><br><strong>Strategic progress tracking<br></strong>Create the scorecards, dashboards, and executive reporting rhythms that give the CEO clear visibility into transformation priorities, business risks, and decisions requiring intervention. Partner closely with the COO and executive team to synthesize progress, surface slippage early, and sharpen the quality of discussion at the top. This role owns executive-level transparency and escalation.<br><br><strong>Executive forum quality<br></strong>Own the output quality of the company's most important executive forums. This means ensuring the right pre-reads exist, decisions are captured in real time, follow-through is tracked, and unresolved issues are escalated quickly. The standard is that every significant forum produces clarity, accountability, and momentum.<br><br><strong>Executive communications<br></strong>Craft the materials that shape the company's most important conversations: board updates, executive memos, decision briefs, CEO communications, investor-ready narratives, and sensitive internal messaging. Turn complex issues into crisp, well-structured communication tailored to senior audiences. Ensure the CEO enters key discussions with sharp materials, clear points of view, and decision-ready framing.<br><br><strong>Thought partnership<br></strong>Serve as a trusted sounding board to the CEO on strategic priorities, sensitive issues, and cross-functional tradeoffs. Translate complex di