Hiring: Chief of Staff to the CEO Company: OpenGov Inc. Location: California, United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 14:22:06 Employment Type: Contract Target Skills & Keywords : Financial Planning, SaaS About the job Required Skills: •You think clearly under pressure, communicate with precision, and know how to move work forward with the best judgement. You understand how AI tools can accelerate serious work, and you use them that way. If you want a front row seat to how a CEO makes decisions and how a growth-stage company actually scales, this role delivers that. •Own the company-wide operating cadence: company all-hands meetings, Executive Leadership Team meetings, and quarterly offsites. This includes agenda-setting, logistics, notetaking, and follow through on decisions. •Own the company's goal-setting process end to end, from framework design and OKR cycle coordination to tracking progress and holding teams accountable to outcomes. •Drive alignment and accountability across the Executive Leadership Team, ensuring the organization stays focused on the highest-priority challenges and executes with urgency. •Triage and manage competing priorities for the CEO: synthesize complex inputs, frame decision options, and surface key insights to inform executive-level choices. •Conduct ad-hoc financial and operational analyses diagnosing business challenges and recommending tailored, scalable solutions. •Partner with Finance on review cycles and headcount analysis; synthesizing financial data into clear, actionable recommendations for the CEO. •Lead and project manage company-wide strategic initiatives; bring together cross-functional stakeholders and drive decisions and action. Qualifications: •Trusted confidant and advisor to the CEO. Helping think through complex strategic, financial, and personnel decisions, and ensuring they are executed upon. •Demonstrated capacity to disseminate information and communicate ideas on behalf of the CEO to the Executive Leadership Team and external stakeholders. •Track record of “clearing the path”. Taking ownership of day-to-day operations and cross-functional processes to create more leverage for the CEO. •Strong financial and operational judgment: able to read and synthesize P&L data, budget variances, and headcount plans to inform executive-level decision-making with clarity and speed. •Strategic thinker, excellent problem solver, and first-class communicator. •Natural curiosity, particularly around how AI is being adopted across industries and how it drives measurable ROI, and the ability to bring those insights back to inform how OpenGov operates and competes. •Demonstrated capacity to lead and drive timely execution of business critical and cross-functional strategic initiatives in a fast-paced environment. •Seamlessly break down large and complex concepts into actionable tasks and steps. •Demonstrated capacity to synthesize complex, competing information quickly and form an independent point of view — then move work forward decisively, even under pressure and without complete information. •Track record of effectively communicating, influencing, and driving alignment across executive leadership and beyond. Compensation: •$150,000 - $200,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!