Chief of Staff

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As the Chief of Staff at Single Grain, you will serve as the right hand to the founder, driving execution on high-impact initiatives, ensuring accountability, and optimizing operational efficiency. Your leadership will create clarity, alignment, and speed within the organization, ensuring strategic projects are successfully delivered.

This role requires a highly organized, strategic thinker who thrives in a fast-paced environment, balancing big-picture vision with meticulous execution. If you have strong operational instincts, a firm but empathetic leadership style, and a passion for driving efficiency, this is the role for you. This role will sit on-site at our Century City office in LA.

Who We Are

​​Single Grain is an award-winning digital marketing agency that has been dedicated to driving persistent growth for remarkable companies like Amazon, Uber, and Salesforce since 2009.
We do this by providing industry-leading services in Paid Media, SEO, Content Marketing, CRO, and more.

We are a team of digital marketers who love what we do. We empower our clients with winning strategies that lead to faster growth. As a top digital marketing agency, we understand how fast-paced the marketing industry is. We pride ourselves on staying ahead of the curve with new algorithms, technology, and trends.

As a testament to our digital marketing expertise, we have:
✅ A Digital Marketing blog with over 200,000 visitors/month
✅ A podcast ('Marketing School') with over 100 million total downloads
✅ A YouTube channel with more than 160,000 subscribers

Our mission is to level up every human by educating and pushing the marketing industry forward. Our goal is to help you level up and succeed.

You are someone who is: 

• Highly Organized & Detail-Oriented – You can juggle multiple projects, track key initiatives, and ensure execution without missing a beat.
• Strong Communicator & Influencer – You’re clear, direct, and firm, ensuring alignment across the team while maintaining positive relationships.
• Tactical & Strategic Thinker – You can zoom in on execution details and zoom out to see the bigger picture.
• Strong Decision-Maker – You can prioritize effectively, delegate smartly, and anticipate roadblocks before they become problems.
• Leader with High Emotional Intelligence – You lead with empathy while driving accountability and performance.

Prior Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in a Chief of Staff role. 
• Experience holding senior leaders and teams accountable to deliver on key initiatives.
• Demonstrated success in driving cross-functional projects and ensuring alignment across multiple departments.
• Strong executive communication skills – able to synthesize complex information, provide structured feedback, and communicate with clarity at all levels.
• Proven ability to implement operational improvements that increase efficiency and reduce friction.
• Experience managing and optimizing executive priorities, ensuring a CEO/founder’s time is spent on high-impact work.
• A background in marketing, digital agencies, startups, or high-growth companies is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and Execute Special Initiatives – Drive the execution of strategic projects spanning multiple teams, ensuring deadlines and deliverables are met.
• Hold Teams Accountable and Be The Enforcer – Enforce execution on directives from the founder, ensuring priorities are completed with precision.
• Act as the Founder’s Strategic Liaison – Serve as the bridge between the founder and the broader team, ensuring alignment, clear communication, and fast decision-making.
• Facilitate Meetings for Maximum Efficiency – Set executive meeting agendas, track key decisions, and ensure follow-through on action items.
• Drive Operational Improvements – Identify and implement workflow optimizations that enhance efficiency across the company.
• Optimize the Founder’s Time – Proactively identify tasks that can be delegated, ensuring they are assigned to the right people, and surface key decisions before they become obstacles.
• Be a Thought Partner – Provide structured feedback, challenge assumptions, and offer alternative perspectives to refine strategic decisions and push the company forward.

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Flexible PTO
• MacBook Provided