Chief of Staff

About

Distro is an AI-driven recruiting platform designed to automate and streamline the hiring process for companies of all sizes. By leveraging smart automation, Distro helps teams quickly vet resumes, conduct structured video interviews, and match candidates to job requirements, enabling efficient and effective hiring.

Catering to startups, remote-first companies, and enterprise talent teams, Distro enhances recruitment by reducing manual tasks and facilitating international hiring through its employer of record services.

Chief of Staff

Location and Salary

New Jersey – Remote

$130k - $160k / year

Description

• Right-hand support to the CEO, acting as a genuine partner in managing CEO’s time and presence across the business including call and meeting representation, calendar and inbox management, expenses and travel, and ensuring operational rhythm.
• Manage people and culture: end-to-end HR including digitalizing processes, talent strategy and hiring through performance, leadership development, compensation design and culture.
• Support business operations working with the CFO to establish systems, rhythms and instrumentation for effective leadership team function.
• Lead AI-first transformation agenda to modernize the operating model to be AI-native.
• Drive change management to guide the leadership team through necessary evolution.
• Engage with customers across fiber, electric, gas, and water to identify challenges and innovate operating models.

Requirements

• Experience operating at pace inside a high-growth software or technology business, ideally through transformation programs or exits.
• Comfortable in leadership conversations, customer meetings, hiring decisions, workflow redesign, and dynamic calendar management.
• Deep knowledge in at least two core areas: People, Business Operations, Change, with eagerness to learn the third.
• Prior close work with a CEO or founder, or readiness to work at that level.
• High trustworthiness and strong execution standards on both small and large matters.
• Passionate about AI and digital tools as methods of working.
• Self-managed work style bringing AI and tooling bias to all functions.
• Low ego, exacting standards, commercially sharp, and averse to corporate theatrics.
• Strong communication skills to write clearly, present cleanly, and influence senior leaders respectfully without hierarchical power.
• Discreet by nature, direct when necessary, with judgment as a key competency.