💼 Mid-Level / Senior 🌎 New York 📃 Chief of Staff 💵 140k-180k package

About Drift Labs

Drift Labs is the core contributor to Drift Protocol, the largest perpetual swaps DEX on Solana. Founded in 2021, Drift is the largest perpetuals DEX on Solana and has processed over $20 billion in trading volume.

Drift’s vision is to create a centralised user experience built on decentralised rails. We’ve raised a total of ~$45 USD million in funding from top investors in the space, including Multicoin Capital, Polychain, Ethereal and many more.

The team is made up of experienced traders and builders from DeFi and traditional finance who have been in this space since 2017.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for an incredibly talented generalist to level up our executive team. As Chief of Staff to the CEO & COO, you’ll build the system of decision making and prioritisation that will allow our execs to reach a new stage of professionalism, maturity and effectiveness.

You’ll support the CEO & COO to align the company around our strategy by building system of information flows, collaboration, decision making and accountability in the executive team and then the whole company. You’ll craft messaging to our team and external stakeholders, to build alignment and motivation around our goals.

You’ll also dive deep, leading or supporting heads of functions to execute on the toughest problems. You’ll receive mentorship from the CEO & COO, get exposure to executive decision making and work one-on-one with senior leaders.

Drift Labs pays a competitive salary with upside potential.

Your Role

Your main job will be to build a system to ensure our leaders are focused on the most important challenges, ingesting the right information, making high quality decisions, and aligning our teams around a concise vision. You’ll own the executive team’s agenda and guide our ways of working so that we can perform at the highest level.

• You’ll need to move between strategy, systems building and execution across all functions in our org. The learning curve will be steep, but you’ll develop a unique perspective on the challenges in the business and play an integral role in solving them.
• You’ll also build a system of communication and reporting to ensure teams are accountable to goals. You’ll own how information flows into and out of the executive team and will craft communications to leaders, team members and external stakeholders.
• You’ll keep tabs on team member wellbeing and be a platform for them to share feedback with. You’ll check in with heads of each department to ensure that they are getting the support they need.