Chief of Staff

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Chief of Staff based in United States. This is a high-impact strategic leadership role supporting the CEO and COO within a fast-growing healthcare organization. The Chief of Staff will serve as a trusted thought partner, executive connector, and force multiplier across the organization. The role combines executive support, investor and board relations, strategic planning, organizational effectiveness, and fundraising execution. You will help establish the operating cadence of senior leadership while ensuring priorities, decisions, and initiatives move forward with accountability. The position also plays a central role in developing capital strategies across venture, philanthropic, foundation, and government funding sources. Success requires exceptional judgment, communication, emotional intelligence, discretion, and the ability to navigate ambiguity in a startup environment. This is an opportunity to influence organization-wide strategy while contributing to the transformation of healthcare delivery for high-risk families. Act as a strategic thought partner and force multiplier for the CEO and COO, providing context, recommendations, and support for high-priority decisions. Orchestrate executive calendars, strategic time allocation, meeting agendas, briefing materials, and follow-up activities to ensure leadership priorities remain focused and aligned. Plan and execute strategic conferences, executive meetings, company-wide events, and other high-level engagements. Lead and structure executive and senior leadership team meetings, including agendas, decision logs, action items, ownership, and follow-through. Own the operating cadence of executive leadership, ensuring priorities, deadlines, decisions, and accountability remain visible and actively managed. Serve as a strategic connector across organizational initiatives, facilitating collaboration between functions and ensuring critical information reaches the right stakeholders. Own investor relations strategy and execution, including investor updates, board and investor materials, reporting commitments, relationship management, and day-to-day coordination with venture investors. Manage relationships and communications with foundations, philanthropic funders, family offices, impact investors, and other external funding partners. Support board and investor meetings by developing agendas and presentations, documenting discussions, and coordinating follow-up actions. Facilitate engagement between executive leadership and key external stakeholders, including investors, health plans, government partners, foundations, and other strategic organizations. Lead the development, alignment, and ongoing tracking of organizational OKRs and strategic planning initiatives. Conduct research and analysis to support executive decision-making and translate complex information into actionable recommendations. Drive enterprise-wide strategic initiatives by coordinating stakeholders, defining requirements, tracking progress, and ensuring execution across functional areas. Manage special projects spanning multiple departments, from initial requirements gathering through implementation and follow-up. Monitor and report on KPIs and organizational performance indicators for executive leadership. Identify opportunities to improve organizational effectiveness, cross-functional collaboration, operating processes, and team alignment. Partner with People leadership to ensure strategic initiatives support organizational culture, mission, and values. Partner with executive leadership and finance to develop and execute fundraising strategies across venture capital, foundations, philanthropic organizations, and government grants. Build and manage the funding pipeline, including prospect research, targeting, outreach, diligence, data-room management, and close tracking. Lead grant strat