Chief of Staff

2 weeks ago


Sydney, Australia Hatch Full time

** This role is at Blackbird (not for Hatch)**

Hatch is supporting Blackbird to find a great Chief of Staff to join their business operations team. Hatch exists to level the playing field for people as they discover a career that’s right for them. We model this in our hiring process for our partners like Blackbird.

**About the role at Blackbird**

This is a special time at Blackbird. We've grown from 10 to 70+ people in the last three years, and have just raised a billion-dollar fund. We’re looking for a Chief of Staff to be a strategic partner to Blackbird’s founders, Niki and Rick, as well as our Leadership Team. You will become a force multiplier through:

- Creating leverage on Niki and Rick’s time. In any scaling organisation, the attention and focus of a leader is the most valuable asset, and your job will be to ensure Niki and Rick maximise the time they spend on the work that matters most.
- Driving Strategic Planning. You’ll ensure our vision of Generational Ownership becomes a reality at Blackbird. We drive this vision forward by setting annual OKRs.
- Owning Internal Comms. You’ll become the connective tissue between Niki and Rick and the broader team, ensuring key info is shared across all levels of Blackbird.
- Steering the Leadership Team. You’ll run the Leadership Team day to day, developing productive relationships of trust with each member.
- Owning Various Special Projects. You’ll complete special projects on behalf of the founders and Leadership Team.

**Details**:

- Salary: $180k + Super + Carry
- Team: Reporting to our Blackbird Founders

**Seniority**

Mid Level - A role for someone with some well-developed knowledge and skills they can bring to the role and team. Typically after 2-5 years of experience.

**Core Responsibilities**
- Execution and Project Management - Plan and deliver project plans by managing people, resources, budget, and timelines, to support the organization’s goals
- Stakeholder Engagement - Partner with stakeholders to understand specifications, business requirements, and communicate insights.
- Business Planning and Reporting - Set and review objectives and key metrics to ensure the business vision is realised

**Strengths**
- Collaboration - Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals
- Prioritization - Compares and ranks the relative importance &/or urgency of different tasks to identify the best order of actions
- Critical thinking - Identifies and synthesizes patterns and trends amongst various sources of information to reach a meaningful conclusion, perspective or insight

Hatch exists to level the playing field for people as they discover a career that’s right for them. We model this in our hiring process for our partners like Blackbird.

We do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, cultural identity, disability, age, or any other non-merit factors. To put it simply, Hatch is for everyone.

**Salary**: $60,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Day shift


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