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Chief of Staff

New York City, On-site

American farmers have made tremendous technology advancements through hardware improvements and investments in precision agriculture. However, when it comes to the back-office, most farms are decades behind, relying on spreadsheets, filing cabinets, and decades-old on-prem software to recruit, manage, and pay their workforce. Seso is addressing this problem by modernizing the back-office for the farm. 

Our mission is to build the premier platform for agribusiness to hire and manage their workforce and improve the lives of agricultural workers. We are addressing American farmers’ biggest pain point - access to qualified labor - through a software-enabled labor solution that automates the H-2A visa. Our  comprehensive HR platform streamlines and automates the hiring process for farms and  seamlessly integrates their efforts across recruitment, onboarding, payroll, and insurance while providing workers access to financial services for the first time.

Seso has raised over $60M from Tier I investors including Index, Founders Fund, and Mary Meeker at Bond, and has been recognized with awards including Forbes Rising Stars and Andreessen Horowitz's American Dynamism 50.

About the Role

Seso is looking for an accomplished and highly skilled Chief of Staff to join the team, reporting directly to the CEO and working closely with our executive team. As Chief of Staff, you'll help drive organizational accountability in a variety of key business metrics. You will be responsible for crafting and setting business priorities, shaping team engagement and communications strategy by strengthening the link between the leadership team and broader organization. You will inevitably gain the visibility and experience into what it takes to lead a complex organization and assist in running business operations. This role is highly collaborative, working with a broad range of colleagues across numerous functions and locations to help Seso remain on track to achieve business goals.

Responsibilities

  • Drive organizational accountability across a variety of key business metrics
  • Set business priorities, shape team engagement and company communications strategy by strengthening the link between the leadership team and the broader organization
  • Work with our CEO, COO, and People team to design our short and long term org structures 
  • Identify opportunities across the org to drive process improvements, produce data-driven recommendations, and help program-manage high impact projects
  • Work with Finance and RevOps in managing team budgets and projections, as well as building and supporting internal compensation framework for future roles 
  • Act as a filter for the executive team to ensure CXO time is spent on highest priority work
  • Analyze business opportunities, new projects and verticals by researching market trends and opportunities
  • Collaborate with the marketing team in developing internal communication collateral and and necessary tools to create clarity and and understanding of business initiatives across the company 
  • Support investor relations, including but not limited to monthly updates, reporting dashboards and board meetings 
  • Prepare meeting decks for the board, all hands, and exec strategy sessions

Outcomes:

  • Create additional leverage for the CEO by offloading ~30% of internal communications onto your plate
  • Successfully drive 3 special projects to completion (e.g., pricing, ESG strategy, non-executive hiring, marketing content creation, etc.) and minimize CXO involvement in early stages of special projects
  • Engage the executive team at the appropriate times for ongoing special projects
  • Drive accountability and next steps across CEO’s highest priorities 
  • Proactively leverage the company’s investors/advisor network and the executive teams’ personal networks to create more leverage for the company across sales, hiring, PR, and product development

Skillset

  • MBA or Bachelors with at least 3 years of equivalent practical experience
  • Experience in sales strategy and business operations or management consulting highly desirable
  • ​​Low ego with high degree of ownership; extremely resourceful and scrappy
  • Possess a sophisticated mix of emotional intelligence and people-centered acumen
  • Executive-level written and verbal communication skills in order to interact with senior leadership and board members with confidence and poise
  • Extremely process oriented with the ability to build structure and  programs from scratch
  • Confidence and professionalism in challenging leaders when appropriate
  • Ability to structure a compelling storyline and build presentation decks and briefing documents

Salary Range: $135,000 - $175,000/yr.

We carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors to determine your personal top of market. We rely on market indicators to determine compensation and consider your specific job related skills and experience for accuracy. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary and will also be dependent on your location.

Diversity is more than a commitment at Seso, it is the foundation of what we do. We pride ourselves on building the premier platform that serves agribusiness and improves the lives of agricultural workers. We believe in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, ethnicity, national origin and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us all feel welcome.


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