← Back to job listings
VI
Chief of Staff to the CEO
vialytics · Stuttgart, Germany
About The Role
Join our team as the Chief of Staff to the CEO, a high-leverage role focused on turning strategy into execution. You will work directly with the CEO on the company's most important priorities, bringing structure to complexity, alignment to competing priorities, and accountability to execution. This role offers a unique opportunity to grow into broader leadership responsibility and shape the future of the company.
- Strategic Clarity: Translate company strategy into clear priorities, ownership and measurable outcomes.
- Decision Velocity: Build and run an operating system that enables fast, high-quality decisions and execution across the company.
- C-Level Alignment & Accountability: Align the leadership team around shared priorities, drive accountability and resolve cross-functional conflicts before they become bottlenecks.
- You can challenge priorities, assumptions and decisions across all functions
- You can define ownership, timelines and follow-up mechanisms for company-critical initiatives
- You can escalate unresolved issues directly to the CEO when necessary
- You can bring the right stakeholders together and drive decisions to closure
- You can hold leaders accountable for commitments and agreed outcomes
- Thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments with ambiguity, change and ambitious goals
- Have successfully led complex cross-functional initiatives with measurable business impact
- Have built or scaled company-wide operating systems, such as OKRs, planning processes, executive reviews or management cadences
- Combine strategic thinking with exceptional execution and a strong bias for action
- Speak and write English and German fluently
- Have worked closely with founders, CEOs or executive teams in roles such as Chief of Staff, Founder’s Associate, Strategy & Operations, Business Operations or top-tier consulting
- Communicate clearly, directly and credibly with stakeholders at all levels
- Are able to create alignment, drive accountability and influence senior stakeholders without relying on formal authority
- Have owned and operated a function or key business area end-to-end, including full responsibility for outcomes, resources and people
- Bring a minimum of 10–15 years of professional experience after completing your academic degree, with a proven track record in high-growth SaaS, technology or scale-up environments, ideally in Series B+ companies
This is an external listing. JobSpring does not represent or verify the employer. Report this listing
JobSpring