Chief of Staff, Founder & Executive Chairman’s Office

Overview:  

AccuWeather is seeking a highly experienced Chief of Staff to support its Founder and Executive Chairman. This role is designed for someone who can serve as a strategic and operational extension of a highly engaged Founder & Executive Chairman with evolving priorities while helping oversee the effectiveness, coordination, and execution flow of the Executive Office. 
 
This individual will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations and coordination of the Founder’s Office, ensuring alignment of priorities, and driving execution across internal and external stakeholders. This is not a traditional administrative role, but rather a leadership position focused on ownership, coordination, and influence. 
 
This role is primarily remote, with expected monthly travel to the State College, PA office for approximately 2–3 days at a time to support executive collaboration, leadership meetings, relationship-building, and ongoing operational alignment. 
 
Key Responsibilities:  

Executive Partnership: 
- Act as a strategic right hand to the Founder, ensuring priorities are clearly defined and executed 
- Anticipate needs and proactively manage competing priorities 
- Serve as a liaison between the Founder and executive leadership 
 
Office Leadership & EA Coordination: 
- Provide leadership and structure across the Executive Assistant team 
- Establish workflows, communication standards, and accountability 
- Ensure cohesion across the office, especially when priorities shift 
 
Strategic Oversight of Calendar & Time: 
- Provide strategic oversight of the Founder’s calendar to ensure alignment with business priorities 
- Ensure the Founder’s time and calendar remain aligned with the organization’s highest-impact priorities 
- Partner with administrative support staff to execute scheduling and logistics 
 
Travel & Meeting Optimization: 
- Ensure travel is aligned with business objectives and optimized for impact 
- Oversee meeting effectiveness by ensuring proper preparation, agenda clarity, and outcomes 
 
Execution & Operations: 
- Translate executive ideas into actionable plans and ensure follow-through 
- Track key initiatives and ensure accountability across teams 

- Help accelerate execution across strategic initiatives by improving prioritization, organizational coordination, communication flow, and operational follow-through across leadership teams. 

- Track executive priorities, communications, and key initiatives to help ensure projects continue progressing effectively, the appropriate stakeholders remain aligned, and organizational efforts stay focused on the highest-impact priorities 
- Simplify complex operational discussions and evolving ideas into organized action plans, clear ownership, and executable next steps. 
 
Executive Communication: 
- Draft and manage high-level correspondence on behalf of the Founder 
- Interface with senior executives and external stakeholders 

• Attend and help coordinate recurring meetings with the CEO and executive leadership team, along with committee and action-oriented meetings across marketing, sales, product development, and strategic initiatives to support organizational alignment, prioritization, communication flow, and execution across key initiatives. 
   

Administrative Excellence (High-Level): 
- Prepare executive materials, briefings, and summaries 
- Manage sensitive and confidential information with discretion 

- Handle highly confidential and sensitive business and personal information with professionalism, discretion, sound judgment, and reliability. 
 
Qualifications  

- 7+ years supporting C-suite executives within founder-led, private company, high-growth, or fast-paced environments, including experience supporting highly engaged Founder and/or CEO leadership structures  

- Experience in a Lead or Senior Executive Assistant, Chief of Staff, Executive Business Partner, or hybrid executive operations role supporting senior leadership 
- Experience managing or coordinating other Executive Assistants 
- Proven ability to operate in fast-paced, founder-led environments 
- Strong emotional intelligence and executive presence 
- Exceptional organizational and prioritization skills 
- Ability to operate independently and influence cross-functionally 
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal 
- Prior experience working remotely while supporting executive leadership 
 
Key Traits  

- Highly adaptable and resourceful 
- Calm under pressure and does not become flustered easily 

- Maintains strong attention to detail and operational accuracy within fast-paced environments 
- Professional, proactive, and solutions-oriented demeanor 

- Strong judgment and discretion and maintains confidentiality at all times 
- Able to balance structure with flexibility 
- Comfortable supporting a highly engaged Founder with evolving priorities 

- Collaborative leadership style with the ability to guide and coordinate administrative support staff and executive office operations 

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 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 125 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.