Chief of Staff

State College, PA

We’re on the search for a Chief of Staff on behalf of our client, a globally recognized, founder-led leader in media, data, and technology. If you have 10+ years of experience as a Chief of Staff, executive operations leader, or in a senior general-management role within a founder-led, growth-oriented, or commercially demanding environment, this may be an opportunity for you.

Our client is conducting a national search for an exceptional Chief of Staff to build and lead a next-generation executive office for its Founder and Executive Chairman. This is not a conventional executive-assistant or administrative search. Reporting to the Executive Chairman and working in close collaboration with the CEO and other executives and managers across the company, the role is designed to capture, organize, and convert his strategic, commercial, marketing, product, talent, and customer insight into focused initiatives and measurable results. The search is for a builder and force multiplier: an intense, in-person, proactive executive role and a rare, career-defining opportunity to work directly with one of America’s most accomplished entrepreneurs.

Responsibilities include building and leading the executive office and its on-site support team; owning day-to-day administrative and office operations, including a complex, high-volume executive calendar and domestic and international travel; capturing, prioritizing, and assigning ideas across departmental boundaries so they become action quickly; connecting sales, marketing, product, technology, and customer strategy efforts to strengthen commercialization and revenue growth; supporting the regular interface between the Executive Chairman and CEO; preparing meeting briefings and drafting communications; and using AI and technology to build and lead an integrated operating system for meeting preparation, knowledge capture, project tracking, and follow-up. The role requires the highest level of confidentiality and discretion.

The ideal candidate brings strong project and operating discipline, commercial fluency and curiosity, AI and technology fluency, exceptional writing and synthesis, and analytical strength, along with executive presence, excellent judgment, and unwavering consistency and reliability. Confident but not ego-driven, forward-thinking, and highly discreet, this leader is comfortable being challenged directly by a demanding founder and respects established procedures before recommending change. A bachelor’s degree is required, with an MBA or advanced degree a plus. This is an on-site, always-on role: the successful candidate must be willing to relocate to State College for an extended period and be committed to the long term.

All responses are sent to Waterstone Human Capital. Please, indicate your interest in Project # 0490-0001S. Please note: Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.