Chief of Staff / Executive Operations Director
AccuWeather CareersState College, Pennsylvania, United States · Posted 7 months agoDescription
Overview:
AccuWeather is seeking a Chief of Staff / Executive Operations Director for Founder & Executive Chair Dr. Joel N. Myers. This is an intense, in-person, demanding, proactive, and transformational executive role — not a conventional administrative or support position — built to multiply the impact of an active Founder & Executive Chair of a well-known high technology and media company. The role reports solely to Dr. Myers and is accountable to him, while operating with full respect for and support of the CEO’s authority to run the company. You will be working directly with one of the top entrepreneurs in American history, converting his strategic, commercial, marketing, product, and customer insight into focused initiatives and measurable results.
Role:
- manage complex, high-volume Executive calendar
- manage Executive correspondence and ensure Executive’s time aligns with priorities
- assist with meeting preparation including briefings, meeting materials, agenda creation, daily reports, and follow-up actions
- proactively keep our CRM current. capture and maintain up-to-date data on key contacts
- coordinate domestic and international travel and other calendar activities
- lead and develop the executive support team, raising standards, ownership, and continuity
- own day-to-day administrative and office operations and project support
- assist with strategic projects, initiatives and deliverables on behalf of the Executive Chair, ensuring they are executed effectively and according to schedule
- capture, organize, and convert the Executive Chair’s strategic, commercial, marketing, product, and customer insights into prioritized initiatives with clear ownership and follow-through
- help connect sales, marketing, product, technology, and customer strategy efforts to strengthen commercialization, pricing, and revenue growth
- draft and edit communications on behalf of the Executive Chair, including emails, and presentations, speeches and transcriptions
- coordinate with home and personal staff
- maintain the highest level of confidentiality and discretion in handling sensitive information and matters building trust with Executive Chair, Executive leadership, Board members and key stakeholders
- use AI & technology to gain leverage, improve office operations and efficiency and build and lead an AI-enabled operating system for meeting preparation, knowledge capture, project tracking, correspondence, decisions, and follow-up
Qualifications:
- 10+ years’ experience and success as a Chief of Staff, Executive Operations leader, or senior general-management role in a founder-led, growth-oriented, or commercially demanding environment
- extremely organized and with exceptional time management and attention to detail
- you’re professional and operate with a high degree of discretion and integrity
- excellent communication skills and ability to build relationships internationally and externally
- comfortable with AI/technology and can quickly adopt tools like Claude, Chat GPT, google suite, slack, zapier, and more
- comfortable with ambiguity and is curious about tech and eager to learn
- people you have worked with put you in the top 1% of people they have worked with
- executive presence and sound judgment, with the confidence to engage directly with a highly experienced founder
- commercial fluency and the ability to connect strategy, sales, marketing, product, and technology
- track record of leading or upgrading teams and converting ideas into measurable outcomes
- genuinely interested in building a long-term relationship with the Founder, not using the role as a short-term step
- comfortable being in the office each day
You Shouldn’t Apply If:
- you need a highly predictable and comfortable work schedule
- want to work from home
- want only a 9-5 job
Compensation & Benefits:
- Comprehensive healthcare and dental benefits.
- 401(k) retirement plan with 50% company match
- Annual performance bonus tied to clearly defined outcomes
- Meaningful relocation assistance and, where appropriate, temporary housing or transition support
- Potential long-term retention or incentive arrangement for an exceptional candidate
- A collaborative work environment and opportunity to work with a high-impact team and Mission driven company that has saved over 12,000 lives
About AccuWeather
AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved over 12,000 lives, prevented injury to over 100,000 people, and saved companies tens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making. Billions of people around the world rely on AccuWeather’s proven Superior Accuracy™ across our consumer digital platforms. AccuWeather.com is the #1 weather destination and one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world, and our award-winning AccuWeather app delivers detailed real-time forecasts to tens of millions of smartphones.
AccuWeather forecasts also appear on digital signage, in 700 newspapers, are heard on over 400 radio stations, and viewed on 100 television stations. The AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW® reach an audience of over 250 million on cable and streaming platforms including DirecTV, Charter Communications - Spectrum, Verizon, Philo, Frndly TV, Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream, Roku, Xumo, Rockbot, LG, and Amazon Freevee.
AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally.
Dr. Joel Myers, Founder and Executive Chairman, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the “father of modern commercial meteorology.” Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been called “the most accurate man in weather” by The New York Times and has been recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to human.resources@accuweather.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
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