Chief of Staff

Zola is seeking a strategic, analytical and motivated Chief of Staff to handle a wide array of business tasks alongside our CEOs and leadership team. This is a highly critical and visible role that will report to one of our Co-CEOs and use strong leadership and problem-solving skills to drive productivity and alignment across the organization. This is a great opportunity to join a fast-paced and growing company, drive meaningful projects, and operate within the leadership levels of the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as strategic advisor and right-hand person to senior leadership team
• Collaborate with leadership team members to determine and prioritize business strategies, ensuring time and energy are focused on the highest impact priorities
• Spearhead special projects or initiatives which bring together multiple stakeholders to help drive decisions
• Build decision-making frameworks to ensure cross collaboration and alignment
• Facilitate communication and information flow within the organization, acting as liaison between departments and stakeholders
• Identify and address operational inefficiencies, streamlining processes and improving team productivity
• Oversee CEOs calendar, help prepare materials for meetings and ensure meetings are well run and productive

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience (or MBA) in an analytical role in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment. Consulting and/or strategy experience strongly preferred
• Highly strategic thinker with unquestionable integrity and curiosity in solving complex problems
• Ability to lead efficient and productive strategic initiatives and special projects
• Excellent storytelling and presentation skills. You know the importance of “details” and have the highest standard of excellence in verbal, written, and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated ability to handle context switching, juggling multiple projects, and remain calm under pressure
• Excels at building trusted cross-functional relationships
• Highly adept at communicating and collaborating with executives and functional leaders
• Thrives in unstructured high growth environments

As part of your application, please submit 3-5 sentences on why you are the perfect candidate for this role and why this role appeals to you.

The salary range for this role is $175,000 - $200,000. This full-time role will be hybrid at our office in NYC (Tuesdays & Thursdays).

About Zola

We're Zola, the wedding company that will do anything for love. We're reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience to make the happiest moment in our couples’ lives even happier. From engagement to wedding and decorating your first home, Zola is there, combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology… all in the service of love. 

We built our entire platform from the ground-up in 2013, and quickly became the fastest-growing wedding company in the country. Our team has deep experience creating award-winning online and mobile products that are helpful, intuitive, and simply magical. We’re proud to have investor partners including Female Founders Fund, Comcast Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Canvas Ventures, Thrive Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, among others. 

We are passionate about supporting all forms of love, and we’re proud of our thriving community of over 2 million couples. We strive to hire a team that is as beautifully diverse as the couples getting married today, and we encourage individuals from every race, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, marital status, religion and perspective to apply. Zola will always be a place where every employee, couple, wedding guest, wedding vendor, and partner will be respected and accepted and valued. 

Our headquarters is in NYC. Come work with us!