Chief of Staff
About Veza
Veza is the identity security company. Identity and security teams use Veza to secure access across cloud infrastructure, data systems, SaaS apps, and on-prem apps. Veza overcomes the blind spots of traditional identity tools with its unique ability to visualize and control access permissions. Global enterprises like Wynn Resorts, Expedia and CrowdStrike trust Veza to monitor privilege, prevent policy violations, speed access reviews, and manage access at scale. Founded in 2020, Veza is headquartered in the Bay Area, California, and is funded by Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, GV, Norwest Venture Partners, and True Ventures. Visit us at veza.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
About the Opportunity:
We are seeking a highly skilled and adaptable Chief of Staff to partner with our CEO and leadership team in driving both strategic and tactical initiatives across the organization. As Chief of Staff, you will be responsible for streamlining operations, aligning company-wide priorities, and acting as the primary liaison between the CEO and the executive team. This role is vital to ensuring the effective execution of the CEO’s vision, and it requires someone with strong operational discipline, strategic insight, and the ability to handle a range of responsibilities from high-level planning to real-time problem-solving.
You Will:
- Lead Strategic Execution: Partner with the CEO to manage and drive key business initiatives, ensuring alignment across cross-functional teams and operationalizing strategic goals.
- Manage Metrics and KPIs: Own the establishment and tracking of company-wide metrics, including KPIs and OKRs. Ensure leadership alignment and communicate progress across the organization.
- Facilitate Executive Communications: Prepare internal and external communications, including briefings, reports, and presentations for executive meetings, Board sessions, and other key stakeholder engagements.
- Oversee Project Management: Manage complex, cross-functional projects, from inception to execution, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to objectives.
- Act as Leadership Liaison: Build trust with the executive team, serving as the link between the CEO and leadership to ensure effective execution of strategic priorities.
- Support the CEO: Manage the CEO’s schedule and priorities, acting as a key point of contact for real-time problem-solving and urgent tasks.
- Develop Operating Standards: Help implement operational rigor by developing and managing operating principles, including OKRs and QBRs.
- Provide Analytics and Insights: Utilize data to generate insights that drive informed decision-making across the organization.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Bring the right teams and players together to tackle high-priority business challenges and ensure organizational alignment.
You Have:
- Experience: 8+ years in business operations, strategy, or project management roles, with exposure to both strategic and tactical work. Experience in revenue operations (RevOps) or go-to-market (GTM) operations is highly desirable.
- Strategic and Operational Expertise: A proven ability to think strategically and execute operationally, turning vision into action.
- Analytical Skills: Strong data analysis capabilities with the ability to interpret metrics and provide actionable insights.
- Leadership: A track record of building trust with senior leadership and managing high-level relationships effectively.
- Resilience and Grit: The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment and manage ambiguity with focus and discipline.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a talent for preparing concise and impactful briefings, reports, and presentations.
- Flexibility: The ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities and handle both high-level strategic work and day-to-day operations.
- Core Attributes: Resilience, self-assurance, humility, collaboration, and the ability to build trust and handle sensitive information with discretion.
This is a rare opportunity for someone with the right mix of strategic acumen and operational discipline to make a significant impact on our company’s success. If you are driven, adaptable, and excited about tackling a wide range of challenges, we would love to hear from you.
Our Culture
We’re driven to build a strong company culture and are looking for individuals with solid alignment with the following:
- Ownership Mindset
- Act with Integrity
- Guardians of our Customers
- Opinionated Humility
- Build Trust, Earn Trust
At Veza, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected pay range can be discussed with your recruiter for the level at which this job has been scoped. Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for equity and a competitive benefits package.
Veza is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants according to applicable federal, state, and local laws. If a candidate with a disability requires an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email [email protected]
About Veza
Veza is the identity security company. Identity and security teams use Veza to secure identity access across SaaS apps, on-prem apps, data systems, and cloud infrastructure. Veza solves the blind spots of traditional identity tools with its unique ability to ingest and organize permissions metadata in the Veza Authorization Graph. Global enterprises like Blackstone, Wynn Resorts, and Expedia trust Veza to visualize access permissions, monitor permissions activity, automate access reviews, and remediate privilege violations. Founded in 2020, Veza is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and is funded by Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, GV, Norwest Venture Partners, and True Ventures. Visit us at veza.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
What We Do
Veza is the authorization platform for data security. Designed for hybrid, multi-cloud environments, Veza enables organizations to easily understand, manage and control who can and should take what action on what data. We empower customers to leverage the power of authorization for an identity-first approach to security, addressing critical business needs tied to managing access governance, data lake security, cloud entitlements, privileged access, and more. Global enterprises like Blackstone, ASAPP, Barracuda Networks, Choice Hotels, and a number of Fortune 500 and emerging organizations trust Veza to secure their enterprise data. Founded in 2020, Veza is headquartered in Los Gatos, California and is funded by Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, GV, Norwest Venture Partners, and True Ventures. To learn more please visit us at www.veza.com.
