Chief of Staff

New York, New York, United StatesHybridFull TimeChief / Executive$160,000–$200,000 /yrPosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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The Chief of Staff is a high-visibility leadership role responsible for the operational success of the VP, General Manager’s organization. This role acts as a strategic partner, driving key initiatives, improving organizational effectiveness, and aligning teams around strategic priorities. The Chief of Staff translates high-level goals into clear execution plans, providing clarity in a fast-paced, complex environment. This role requires a seasoned operator who excels at driving accountability among senior leaders and building systems to scale a SaaS business. Responsibilities include identifying operational gaps, mitigating risks, and acting as an extension of leadership to prioritize, execute, and communicate critical projects. The role is based in New York, NY, with a hybrid work model requiring 4 days in the office per week.

The Chief of Staff is a high-visibility leadership role responsible for the operational success of the VP, General Manager’s organization. Acting as a strategic partner, you will ensure the business operates at peak velocity by driving key initiatives, improving organizational effectiveness, and aligning teams around strategic priorities. You will translate high-level goals into clear execution plans across the business, providing clarity in a fast-paced, complex environment.

This role is designed for a seasoned operator who excels at driving accountability among senior leaders and building the systems necessary to scale a SaaS business. You will identify operational gaps, mitigate risks before they impact the bottom line, and act as an extension of leadership—prioritizing, executing, and communicating critical projects to enable the executive team to operate at maximum efficiency.

** Please note that this opportunity is located in New York, NY, and requires this hire to work from our office 4 days a week. **

As a Chief of Staff You Can Expect:
Drive the Operating Cadence: Design and manage the GM’s leadership meetings, QBRs, and planning cycles to ensure the team is aligned and hitting KPIs.

Force Execution: Partner with Product, Sales, CS, and Engineering leaders to unblock projects and hold senior stakeholders accountable for deliverables.

Prioritize Ruthlessly: Act as a surrogate for the GM in high-level meetings, surfacing critical risks early and filtering out noise to focus the organization on top priorities.

Build Systems & Visibility: Develop dashboards and reporting structures that provide real-time clarity on business health and cross-functional performance.

Lead Special Projects: Own high-impact, ambiguous initiatives that don’t have a natural home (e.g., market expansion research, internal restructuring, or post-launch retrospectives).

Facilitate High-Stakes Decisions: Prepare briefing materials, research, and frameworks that enable the GM to make fast, informed decisions.

Strategic Execution & Cross-Functional Leadership
Partner with executive leadership to define, prioritize, and drive the company’s most critical initiatives

Help formulate and drive longer term business strategy as well as short term strategic planning and alignment with FP&A processes

Lead cross-functional execution across Product, Sales, Customer Success, and Engineering to ensure alignment and delivery

Proactively identify risks, surface issues early, and drive timely decision-making

Operational Excellence & Systems Thinking
Build and implement operating cadences, dashboards, and tracking mechanisms to measure progress against key priorities

Establish structure and clarity in ambiguous or evolving environments

Continuously identify opportunities to improve organizational effectiveness and execution

Executive Partnership & Accountability
Act as a trusted advisor and thought partner to senior leadership

Help prioritize competing demands and ensure focus on the highest-impact work

Hold executive leaders accountable for commitments, deliverables, and outcomes

Communication & Alignment
Drive alignment across the leadership team through clear communication, structured updates, and effective meeting cadences

Prepare executive-level materials, including presentations, briefings, and business reviews

Facilitate leadership meetings, ensuring clear agendas, decisions, and follow-ups

Special Projects
Lead high-impact, often ambiguous initiatives from concept through execution

Conduct analysis and develop recommendations to support strategic decisions

To Thrive in This Role, You’ll Need:

5+ years experience in high-growth SaaS operator roles (e.g., Biz Ops, Product Ops, RevOps, or a prior CoS/Founder role) OR deep domain expertise in SaaS business models and operations gained from consulting and private/growth equity backgrounds.

Executive Presence: The confidence to challenge senior leaders and the diplomacy to drive consensus across competing departments.

Clarity from Chaos: A proven ability to walk into an ambiguous environment and build the structure, processes, and documentation needed to scale.

Deep SaaS Literacy: You understand the operational levers of a SaaS P&L—churn, NRR, CAC, and product velocity as well as financial levers - bookings/sales targets achivement, financial analysis, unit economics, financial performance ratios

Strong Judgment: You know when to handle a situation yourself and when to escalate to the GM.

What VTS Values & How We Show It

Strive for Excellence - We know your potential is unlimited. Take advantage of our executive coaches and our training and career development programs available to all employees!

Be Customer Obsessed - We’re employee obsessed too! VTS offers competitive compensation, comprehensive health benefits (including dental and vision), pre-tax commuter benefits, and a 401(k) plan. Not to mention the fun stuff - quarterly happy hours, wellness events, clubs, and team lunches!

Be Curious - Benefit from a culture that promotes new learning. VTS offers an education stipend to all employees!

Move as One - We work in an open floor plan to promote cross-functional collaboration.

Take Ownership - Be an owner of the company you’re building with our equity packages.

Appreciate the Difference - VTS embraces and celebrates diversity. We understand the importance of a strong work-life balance. We offer a flexible PTO policy, generous family leave program, and more!

ABOUT VTS

VTS is the only AI-driven technology platform enabling intelligent real estate by unifying industry professionals, investors, and their customers at scale. In 2013, VTS revolutionized commercial real estate leasing operations with what is now VTS Lease. Today, VTS AI is the largest first-party insights and collaboration engine in the industry, transforming how strategic decisions are made and executed by the real estate industry globally.With the VTS Platform, consisting of VTS Lease, VTS Market, VTS Activate, and VTS Data, every stakeholder in real estate is given real-time market information and workflow tools to do their job with unparalleled speed and intelligence. VTS is the global leader, with more than 60% of Class A office space in the U.S., and 13 billion square feet of office, residential, retail, and industrial space is managed through the platform worldwide. VTS is utilized by over 45,000 professionals and over 1.2 million total users each day, including industry-leading customers such as Blackstone, Brookfield Properties, LaSalle Investment Management, Hines, BXP, Oxford Properties, JLL, and CBRE.VTS maintains offices in New York City, London, Toronto, Chicago.

To learn more about VTS and view our open roles, visit us at vts.com or follow us on Instagram (@WeAreVTS) or LinkedIn. Pay Transparency

At VTS, we pride ourselves on articulating a clear and transparent philosophy around equitable, impartial compensation that will allow us to recruit and retain an exceptional team. The base salary is market-driven at the time of offer and is based on tier 1 market data. The salary for this role will range between $160,000 and $200,000 and is determined by several factors, including your skills, prior relevant experience, quality of interviews, leveling, and geography.

EEO Guidelines

VTS embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. For more information about what we collect and how we use it, please refer to the Candidate Privacy Statement.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please let us know at ta@vts.com

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