What is the role of a Chief of Staff?
The Chief of Staff (CoS) role is responsible for providing strategic support to an organization's leadership. This may sometimes be directly in support of one individual (i.e., Chief of Staff to the CEO), or a broader executive team.

The role of a Chief of Staff can vary depending on the organization, but some common responsibilities include:

1. Acting as liaison between the executive and other departments of the organization
2. Strategic planning
3. Project management
4. Communication and stakeholder management
5. Operations management

Hiring an ex-consultant or banker for your Chief of Staff role
Chief of Staff roles are another common role well suited for our candidate pool: Consultants and Bankers are often comfortable wearing multiple hats; They can ramp up on different initiatives quickly, and can provide a level of structure and organization to any task at hand. 

Someone with a professional services background also tends to an asset when it comes to managing across different groups of stakeholders.

We often work with later stage startups and tech companies to help them build and grow their corporate development and strategy teams. We have helped place anywhere from junior talent looking to break into the space, to seasoned corp dev and M&A leaders.

We help hire into Finance-related roles that typically are looking for former investment bankers and private equity associates.

Many of our candidates have worked on ops-related projects during their time in consulting, or have had hands-on experience in an operations function at a marketplace or consumer startup (i.e., Uber, Blue Apron, Amazon), making them ideal candidates for other operations-focused roles.

Our candidates often have backgrounds in professional services (banking, consulting), making them natural fits for client-facing roles that span Business Development, Customer Success, and Partnerships.

There are many flavors of revenue-generating roles; the ones best suited to our candidate pool are the ones that call for a strategic and more analytical element (i.e., Strategic Customer Success v.s. Customer Support; Business Development v.s. Sales-heavy).

While less common, we have helped hire into various product leadership and product strategy roles on behalf of our tech and startup clients.

Many of the product candidates within our network will generally lean heavier on the strategic-end (i.e., early careers in banking or consulting, with perhaps backgrounds in engineering or CS), v.s. skew overtly technical (i.e., early career in engineering).