Senior Director, Chief of Staff to the CEO

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• Justworks is seeking a senior, AI-forward Chief of Staff to the CEO. You will partner with the CEO and executive team as we accelerate how the company grows, operates, and serves customers. As AI changes how work gets done, you will be a key contributor to our ongoing cross-company transformation.
• This role combines strategic judgment with hands-on execution. You will help the CEO focus on the highest-impact work, turn company priorities into coordinated action, and translate AI opportunities into practical changes to ways of working and organizational capabilities. The right person is a trusted advisor, a strong cross-functional operator, and a robust thinker who can move from enterprise-level considerations to the tactical details required to make progress.
• The intention is that you would be in this role for at least 2 years and, through this experience, become ready to take on a more senior role within the company.
• Your Success Profile
• What You Will Work On
• CEO partnership: Become a trusted advisor to the CEO. Contribute to making the CEO more effective for the executive team, and the executive team more effective for the CEO. Evolve the CoS role as necessary to provide maximum leverage to the CEO & enable the CEO to focus on the highest impact activities.
• Enterprise priorities: Enable teams to translate strategy into clear execution plans and outcomes. Bring leaders together to resolve issues that are stuck between functional boundaries.
• AI-enabled operating transformation: Partner with the CEO, Chief People Officer, & functional leaders to identify where AI can materially improve how work gets done. Take selected cross-functional opportunities from problem definition and workflow redesign through development, adoption, and measurement.
• Strategic planning and alignment: Partner with the CEO, CFO, Head of Strategy, and functional leaders to connect longer-term objectives with annual planning, resource choices, and near-term execution.
• Executive operating rhythm: Drive the operating cadence of the business. Manage the operational rhythm of our leadership team with the goal of building shared consciousness, making timely decisions, and driving accountability.
• Board and executive communications: Reimagine how we synthesize, capture, and report on company strategy, learning, & execution for the Board. Distill complex information into clear thinking and messages tailored to that audience.
• Special initiatives: Own complex, high-impact work on behalf of the CEO and executive team, including urgent issues or opportunities that do not fit neatly within one function.