Here's a Chief of Staff job I came across and my thoughts (spiciness level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️) 🥵 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗲: 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗳𝗳 (𝗫𝗕𝗼𝘅 𝗢𝗿𝗴) @ 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁 Minimum qualification: • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance or related field AND • 8+ years work experience in technology-related program management, professional services, consulting, financial management, business planning, strategy, or related field AND • 8+ years work experience in program management, process management, process improvement OR equivalent experience for all the above, ALSO • 6+ years management (e.g., people, project, process, vendor, change) experience. Pay range: $129k - $273k per year ($162k - $300k in SF and NYC, but the location for this job is Redmond, so they'll probably hire someone in Seattle). I think $129k is a wildly low salary floor given the minimum experience. (There are seed stage startups paying this and more...see below...) I can see how this might square with an M6 leveling, but a VP-level person in this role is better suited given that this division is part of the $16B Microsoft Gaming org. But back to salary vs experience: 8+ years of consulting AND 6+ years of people leadership launches you into the mid $200s for a salary floor *easily* For this role, either the leveling needs to be revisited so that the salary floor + band comes up to match the desired experience, or the minimum experience needs to be whittled down to match the numbers As a comparison, here's some raw cash comp data for some of our Chief of Staff roles: • Digital health: $100-150k (seed stage, hybrid, Boston, NYC, Philly candidates only or relo) • Healthtech: $100-160k (seed stage, NYC based only) • Telehealth: $100-200k (seed stage, fully remote) • Fintech: ~$175k + tokens with near-term liquidity (Series A, hybrid in SF) • Cybersecurity: $230-280k (Series E, hybrid in SF) • Legaltech: $250-$350k (Series D, on-site in SLC) If you're a builder, check out our full job board for more opportunities and apply : ) And if you liked this post, drop a 🌶 in the comments! #chiefofstaff #recruiting
Sadly, I’ve seen a number of CoS roles with ridiculously low salaries and wild expectations.
Cari Corzine
7mo
The floor should be 200k. 🌶️🌶️🥵
Elliot Oshman
7mo
I didn't see this in the comments, but the comp showing here is base salary only. I cannot speak to this role, but total comp would probably include stock (RSU) and likely a % bonus. So total comp would be much higher than these numbers. I 100% agree, for the experience required, total comp should be (and likely is) much higher. HTH!
Mollie Staretorp
7mo
Well, now I wish I'd saved one shared with me earlier in which an EA role (nothing extraordinary about the job description by the way) had a REQUIRED minimum education of a Bachelors with a MASTERS preferred AND work experience.
Matthew Murdock
6mo
🌶️ a chief of staff should not only be a business expert in that industry, but also enough of an expert generalist to bring outside ideas to an ELT! If a top cybersecurity professional is already mid to high $100s, a CoS would need to be 25-50% higher. Your Series E cybersecurity role is spot on!
Sharline Liu
7mo
🌶 Love your SME, Zaharo!🔥🙌
Sara Baity
7mo
I think one of the biggest problems we’re seeing right now is that CoS has become the new buzzword and organizations are trying to get these highly qualified people with zero understanding of what a CoS does / can do
Very true - love that you are hitting the nail on the head Zaharo! Reminds me though a discussion I had with a Greek friend - my age that works in the US for the past decade- telling that professionals at our age bracket and with our experience if they are not getting min 250k+ base something is wrong. The discussion started as we were comparing the salaries in Greece that is well below 100k in most of the cases and below 50k+ for small companies not to mention that for candidates 45+ yrs old the doors are closed
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