What is the Chief of staff role

What does someone who is Chief of staff actually do ? Why do early stage startups look at hiring for these roles ?

23mo ago

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GroovyBoba

X (formerly Twitter)23mo

Assistant to the regional manager

PerkyQuokka

Dunder Mifflin23mo

Here’s your 1 schrute buck 💵

SquishyQuokka

Gojek23mo

Chief of Staff is glorified PA from an elite college.

GoofyPickle

Stealth23mo

PA - peak asshole ? 🤪 the guy sits in every meeting and is extremely full of himself hence asked

PerkyMarshmallow

Razorpay23mo

Project management 2. Enforcer for said projects 3. Founders operational bitch 4. Picks projects to own of theirs. Essentially part time PA part time EA depending on your luck.

MagicalDumpling

Myntra23mo

I have seen those chief of staff to be extremely knowledgable and impactful in companies like Amazon.

But I have also seen companies where those CoS personnel were literally full of themselves and would put random CP in important meetings, without actually being held accountable for anything.

Think it varies across companies and more importantly how well the CEO/CXO can think of those roles