Chief of Staff

Okta

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. DIRECTOR/SENIOR DIRECTOR, CHIEF OF STAFF – GLOBAL PEOPLE TEAM Reports to: Chief People Officer Location: SF Bay Area (SF HQ a minimum of 2x week)  ROLE OVERVIEW The Director/Senior Director, Chief of Staff is a highly visible, strategic, and highly operational leadership role designed to serve as the critical "glue" that makes everything fit together across Okta's Global People & Places organization. Reporting directly to the Chief People Officer (CPO), you will act as a true strategic thought partner and operational proxy for the CPO, building deep, trust-based relationships across the People Leadership Team (PLT) and the broader business. This role requires a rare and sophisticated dual capability: you must be deeply strategic with a commanding executive presence, yet remain relentlessly operational in execution. Crucially, you possess the business acumen and discernment to ensure we focus on the right priorities. You will bring a vibrant, high-energy presence to the team, serving as the connective tissue that bridges functional silos, coordinates global efforts, and drives high-velocity execution in our fast-paced, AI-driven landscape. WHAT YOU'LL DO EXECUTIVE PROXY AND STRATEGIC THOUGHT PARTNERSHIP * CPO Proxy & Advisor: Serve as a trusted advisor, strategic thought partner, and proxy for the Chief People Officer, representing the Office of the CPO in key leadership forums and decision-making bodies. * The Connective "Glue": Cultivate deep, authentic relationships across the People Leadership Team (PLT)—including PBPs, L&D, Recruiting, People Ops, Total Rewards, and Workplace—ensuring all separate programs align and fit together seamlessly. * Strategic Filtering: Evaluate operational requests and initiatives with critical rigor, acting as a gatekeeper to ensure we do not waste organizational energy over-engineering or operationalizing the wrong processes. * Special & High-Impact Initiatives: Lead high-stakes, cross-group special projects from concept to completion, ensuring precise work-back schedules, clear ownership, and definitive output. HIGH-VELOCITY OPERATIONS AND PROGRAM INTEGRATION * Central Program "Hub": Manage and synchronize all global People & Places program timelines, including product launch dates, program releases, and policy effective dates. * Planning and Resource Optimization: Lead the People organization through annual and quarterly business planning (QBRs), streamlining headcount allocation, and optimizing global resources. * Process Simplification: Identify systemic friction points and redesign complex corporate workflows into elegant, simple, and highly scalable processes. * Operational Risk Management: Monitor global HR operational risks and strategic opportunities, delivering clear recommendations to navigate ambiguity and protect our high talent density. FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP AND BUDGET MANAGEMENT * Budget Oversight: Manage and oversee the global People & Places organization budget in close partnership with the Chief People Officer and Finance. * Resource Prioritization: Work with functional People leaders to build, manage, and audit program-specific budgets, ensuring financial resources are directly mapped to our most critical strategic priorities. WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE * Commanding Partnership: You are recognized as a trusted, seamless proxy for the CPO, highly capable of driving alignment and making high-velocity decisions on their behalf. * Cohesive Alignment ("The Glue"): The People Leadership Team operates with flawless synchronicity; major launches, system releases, and policy rollouts are integrated into a single global roadmap. * Strategic Operational Discipline: The organization avoids low-leverage work; execution cycles are spent only on high-value initiatives, and over-engineered, low-value processes are actively dismantled. * Fiscal Optimization: The global People budget is meticulously managed with zero unexpected variances and clear ROI on talent programs. * Vibrant Team Connection: Your high-energy presence has successfully fostered a highly connected, transparent, and collaborative community across our global workforce. LEADERSHIP EXPECTATIONS * Deeply Strategic with Strong Executive Presence: You command respect at the C-suite and board levels, articulating complex operational and talent concepts with clarity, confidence, and authority. * Highly Operational & Discriminating Operator: You possess a relentless bias toward action, measuring success by concrete outcomes and delivered projects rather than mere activity or busywork. Detail-obsessed yet highly strategic, you possess the critical judgment to balance strategy with execution, serving as a strategic filter to ensure the team moves with high velocity while fiercely preventing them from operationalizing the wrong things. * The Ultimate Connector: You possess outstanding relationship-building skills and a high-energy approach that naturally connects people, breaks down functional walls, and creates a sense of shared purpose. * Continuous Bar-Raiser: You reject incrementalism and mediocrity, continually pushing yourself and the leadership team to elevate performance standards. * Agile Change Champion: You view ambiguity, priority shifts, and platform transitions as opportunities to improve and innovate, helping others navigate uncertainty with confidence and momentum. WHAT YOU’LL BRING * Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field * 10+ years of experience in HR, operations, strategy, or a related field * Strong leadership skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams * Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas and concepts * Strong analytical skills, with the ability to use data to drive decision-making * Experience in talent management, performance management, and employee engagement * Knowledge of HR laws, regulations, and compliance requirements is preferred * Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment * High level of integrity, with the ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information #P8817_3496079 The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $206,000—$284,000 USD Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.    The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between: $184,000—$253,000 USD The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being  * Driving Social Impact  * Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. 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Asana

As the Head of Engineering Operations, you will be a key leadership partner to the CTO and the engineering leadership team, owning the operational backbone of our global R&D organization. In this role, you will serve as a critical bridge to other cross-functional groups, driving operational excellence, organizational effectiveness, and strategic initiatives. We are looking for a strategic leader who can translate company strategy into actionable engineering plans while building lightweight operating models that accelerate velocity and maintain high quality. You will empower our engineering organization to thrive and deliver exceptional impact at scale. This role is based in our San Francisco or Vancouver office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements. WHAT YOU’LL ACHIEVE * Translate overarching company strategy into actionable engineering and operating plans in close collaboration with cross-functional partners. * Design and build lightweight operating models, frameworks, and processes to optimize engineering execution and delivery, integrating evolving AI agentic engineering workflows. * Hire, mentor, and lead a high-performing, global team of engineering operations professionals and Technical Program Managers to steer complex horizontal programs. * Oversee financial and resource governance, including budget management, program spend, headcount strategy, and vendor/tooling allocations across public cloud and LLMs. * Define and own the engineering metrics program (KPIs covering delivery, quality, reliability, efficiency, and capacity) to deliver data-driven insights to leadership. * Serve as a trusted proxy and connective tissue for the CTO and R&D leadership, driving clear engineering communication strategies, roadmap reviews, QBRs, and all-hands forums. * Cultivate engineering enablement by overseeing robust onboarding programs, learning initiatives, and knowledge-sharing opportunities. ABOUT YOU * Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making. * Bring 8+ years of experience in engineering operations, technical program management, chief-of-staff, or strategy & operations roles, ideally supporting a large software engineering organization. * Possess a proven track record of driving complex, cross-functional initiatives to successful completion within a fast-paced environment. * Exhibit strong financial and analytical fluency, with comfort owning a budget, building headcount models, and transforming complex data into clear, actionable dashboards. * Demonstrate exceptional technical fluency with an understanding of the software development lifecycle and the ability to quickly master emerging tools and new domains. * Show outstanding written and verbal communication skills, capable of tailoring messaging seamlessly from executive summaries to deep operational reviews. * Operate with exceptional organization, strong judgment, and the independent drive necessary to navigate ambiguity successfully. WHAT WE’LL OFFER Our comprehensive compensation package plays a big part in how we recognize you for the impact you have on our path to achieving our mission. We believe that compensation should be reflective of the value you create relative to the market value of your role. To ensure pay is fair and not impacted by biases, we're committed to looking at market value which is why we check ourselves and conduct a yearly pay equity audit. For this role, the estimated base salary range is between $250,000 - $330,000. The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed range above is a guideline, and the base salary range for this role may be modified. In addition to base salary, your compensation package may include additional components such as equity, sales incentive pay (for most sales roles), and benefits. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your recruiter to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role. We strive to provide equitable and competitive benefits packages that support our employees worldwide and include: * Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits * Career coaching & support * Inclusive family building benefits * Long-term savings or retirement plans * In-office culinary options to cater to your dietary preferences #LI-Hybrid About us Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong. Join Asana’s Talent Network to stay up to date on job opportunities and life at Asana.

Dust

ABOUT DUST Work is being rewritten, and the people holding the pen are the ones who actually run it. With enterprise-grade governance, flexible model choice, and a collaborative interface for humans and agents to work together, Dust empowers AI Operators at the world’s fastest-moving companies to rewire how work gets done. With 70%+ weekly active users, people stick with Dust as much as they do with Slack and Notion. We don't get piloted and shelved. We land once, and spread. We're at an exciting stage of our journey, and growing fast. We're serving great customers like Datadog, 1Password, Cursor, Clay, Vanta and Persona, and aim to x5 our growth by the end of 2026. Dust is backed by Sequoia with a determined team of optimists (coming from Stripe, OpenAI, and Stanford) who like to focus on users, ship fast, and don't take themselves too seriously while doing so. The Generalist named us among the Future 50. SUMMARY The Founder's Office at Dust exists to increase the operating leverage of the company during a period of hypergrowth. This role is designed for high-agency problem solvers who want to work on the company's highest-priority initiatives. You'll operate across operations, GTM, recruiting, customer work, partnerships, and strategic projects, stepping into ambiguous situations and driving them forward with speed and judgment. Some projects may last a day. Others may become entire functions. You'll work closely with senior leadership, gain unusually high exposure to how a fast-growing AI company operates, and help scale the systems, processes, and decisions that matter most. This is not a traditional strategy role, and it is not an assistant role. We are looking for people who thrive in ambiguity, move quickly, take ownership naturally, and enjoy building where structure does not yet exist. WHAT YOU'LL DO * Own high-priority initiatives that do not yet have a clear long-term owner * Drive cross-functional projects across operations, GTM, recruiting, partnerships, and customer work * Identify operational bottlenecks and help resolve them quickly and effectively * Improve how the company executes by building lightweight systems, processes, and operating cadences * Help leadership translate priorities and decisions into execution * Step into ambiguous situations, create structure quickly, and drive momentum * Operate with high context across the company and connect dots across teams * Take on increasing scope and ownership as the company scales Example Projects Projects may include: * launching a new operational or GTM motion * supporting strategic customer initiatives * improving recruiting and interview operations * coordinating executive offsites or field events * driving follow-through on company priorities * building internal systems that improve execution speed and visibility REQUIREMENTS Every candidate and employee's success is measured against the same 3 dimensions. Aptitude, Attitude and Agency. Aptitude * You are highly analytical and structured in how you think * You can synthesize incomplete information quickly and identify what matters most * You communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing * You learn new domains extremely quickly * You exercise strong judgment without requiring heavy oversight * You know how to balance speed and quality appropriately Attitude * You are motivated by company-building, not narrowly defined ownership * You are energized by solving hard problems, especially when the path forward is unclear * You are equally comfortable thinking strategically and executing tactically * You have low ego and high curiosity * You build trust easily across technical and non-technical teams * You are comfortable operating in fast-moving and ambiguous environments Agency * You proactively identify problems and move toward them * You take ownership without waiting for permission * You close loops and push work to completion * You are resourceful under constraints * You are comfortable making decisions with imperfect information * You naturally create momentum around you IDEAL BACKGROUNDS We care far more about slope, judgment, and ownership than any specific background, but strong candidates often come from environments like: * early-stage startups * Founder's Office or Chief of Staff roles * consulting paired with meaningful operator experience * venture capital or investing roles transitioning into operating * business operations or strategic operations * former founders or entrepreneurial builders WHY THIS ROLE IS UNIQUE * Exposure to nearly every part of the company * Opportunity to work on the company's highest-priority initiatives * Extremely high learning velocity * Significant autonomy and ownership * A path toward larger operational or functional leadership roles over time * A front-row seat to scaling an AI company during a major platform shift COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS * Competitive compensation: $175,000 - $200,000 base salary * 🏡 Substantial support for relocation (up to 10k€), including finding an apartment in San Francisco and supporting you with the visa procedure * Significant equity package in a Sequoia-backed startup * Health insurance for you and your dependents * New MacBook Pro or Linux machine, monitor, keyboard, etc. * Beautiful office in San Francisco * Opportunity to travel to Paris multiple times a year * Regular team events and offsite LOCATION We're prioritizing building our team with an in-person culture at our offices in Paris, San Francisco, and New York because we value the magic that happens when talented people work closely together. We have an office-first culture. Some of the best things about building at Dust are the energy, the fast decisions, and the unexpected conversations that unlock a hard problem, which happen because we are in the same room. Being together is not a formality, it is how we do our best work, and it is something we actively protect. That said, we hire people with strong judgement and we extend that trust to how they manage their time. When working from home makes more sense for what you need to get done that day, we trust you to make that call. WHY DUST The models are powerful enough. What's missing is the product layer where AI meets how companies actually work. That's what we're building: the infrastructure that lets any team turn scattered knowledge and tools into coordinated execution with agents they build, own, and run themselves. We use Dust ourselves every day. We get to shape how humans and agents collaborate while solving our own problems with the product we ship. That loop is rare, and it's why we move fast. If you're excited about defining a new category and want to join a determined team of optimists who focus on users, ship fast, and don't take themselves too seriously, we'd love to talk. Even if you don't check every box in our requirements, we encourage you to apply. We value diverse perspectives and backgrounds, and we're more interested in your potential and passion than a perfect match to our checklist. Learn how we think and work. * Our product constitution, a story about our mission * Agents at work - Latent Space, podcast with our cofounder, Stanislas Polu, 2024 * LLMs reasoning and agentic capabilities over time - dotAI, podcast with our cofounder, Stanislas Polu, 2024