• Act as a trusted thought partner to the CEO: help translate strategic goals into concrete operational plans. • Prepare briefing materials, memos, and decision-making documents for high-level meetings. • Identify priority areas and help set CEO focus — proactively flag opportunities, risks, and critical issues. • Oversee special projects that don’t have a clear owner but are mission-critical (e.g., events, risk mitigation, process redesign). • Partner with the CEO to actively shape and protect strategic priorities — ensuring focus, energy, and time are aligned with organizational goals, donor strategy, and long-term impact. • Exercise judgment over what rises to the CEO’s attention, proactively assessing requests, opportunities, and commitments for strategic value and timing. • Lead and coordinate cross-functional, high-impact initiatives from planning through execution. • Serve as project lead on strategic priorities, tracking progress, managing roadblocks, and ensuring key deliverables are met. • Define metrics for initiatives, monitor performance, and report on outcomes. • Design, implement, and refine frameworks for organizational planning, decision-making, and accountability. • Establish and manage leadership meeting rhythms (e.g., planning meetings, review cycles). • Create systems to synchronize work across teams (status dashboards, shared planning tools, decision-tracking). • Identify operational risks and inefficiencies; propose and implement solutions. • Help shape and maintain a strong leadership culture by facilitating cross-team collaboration, trust, and transparency. • Act as a connective tissue across departments, surfacing misalignment early and helping leaders resolve issues before they escalate. • Support board operations: prepare board meeting materials, agendas, and follow-up.

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description The Chief of Staff will make the CEO dramatically more effective by managing bandwidth and priorities. The ideal candidate will be able to operate as a proactive player-coach hybrid: - Strategic enough to sit in on a pricing discussion or a legislative briefing and add real value. - Tactical enough to ensure every follow-up actually happens. - Willing to draft a policy memo at 9am and clean up CRM data at 2pm. The through-line is judgment, ownership, and the ability to context-switch throughout the day. To facilitate face-to-face work and build internal trust with the CEO, preference will be given to candidates located in the NY metro area. Remote candidates willing to travel frequently will be considered, but local is strongly preferred. A Note on Work Style: The CEO travels frequently and sometimes keeps unpredictable hours around customer deadlines and conferences, but that's his calendar, not yours. The role is demanding because of its breadth and pace, not because we expect you to be on-call around the clock. That said, the person who will thrive in this role will be a self-starter who spots what needs doing and moves on it without waiting for direction. What You'll Do - Deal & Pipeline Support: - Own CRM hygiene. - Prep the CEO for meetings (pulling background on agencies, legislators, and procurement officers). - Draft follow-up emails. - Track where every opportunity stands. - AI-Driven Process Improvement: - Find places where AI can create velocity. - Build a monitoring pipeline that auto-summarizes new state-level identity legislation. - Set up AI-assisted meeting prep workflows. - Create drafting tools for the CEO. - Strategic Research & Synthesis: - Monitor developments in govtech and digital identity. - Synthesize information into digestible briefs. - Flag important matters for the CEO. - Communications & Content Leverage: - Draft, edit, and polish outputs for the CEO. - Turn rough voice memos into polished one-pagers. - Prep speaker notes. - Ghost-draft blog content. - Cross-Functional Gap-Filling: - Run hiring processes. - Manage event prep. - Jump into partner integration workstreams. - Travel: - Based in the U.S. (NY metro preferred) and willing to travel as needed. Qualifications - 5-8+ years of experience in strategy, operations, consulting, business development, or a high-ownership role within a technology company. - Exceptional written communication skills. - AI-native: Think in terms of workflow automation and using AI to create leverage. - Comfort with ambiguity and context-switching. - Familiarity with government or regulated industries. - High agency, low ego: Comfortable doing unglamorous work. Requirements - $135,000 - $180,000 a year, depending on experience, qualifications, skill set, and location. - Equity and a competitive benefits package offered. Company Description At SpruceID, we value diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status.

• Own the planning, prioritization, and execution of the Commercial Team’s OKRs. Ensure all activities align with our strategic objectives to drive revenue and market share growth. • Develop and manage comprehensive sales reporting frameworks to track performance against targets, providing actionable insights. • Author and enforce value-based messaging for use by the field and customer success teams to capitalize on new opportunities. Manage competitive messaging, including strategies to counteract negative press from competitors. • Oversee quality control procedures and address issues promptly. Coordinate with various integration partners at both business and technical levels, including planning joint rollouts and developing contingency strategies. • Create technical and value-based content for sales presentations. Ensure timely dissemination of relevant messaging to the field, delineating what is acceptable to communicate under NDAs. • Drive the resolution of strategic and tactical issues concerning partner integrations, maintaining and reviewing relationships with an eye toward optimizing or substituting vendors as necessary. • Work closely with marketing and educational teams to enable commercial teams to effectively communicate and sell the value of new and enhanced products.

At Kepler Communications , we're not just imagining the future of on-demand space connectivity - we're leading it! Our mission is to provide real-time Internet access for space-based assets, enabling a new era of data-driven exploration and innovation. With 33 satellites launched to date , Kepler operates the first commercial optical data relay constellation, enabling real-time, continuous space communications while supporting advanced on-orbit compute and hosted payload capabilities. Industry-leading technology is only part of the story. What sets Kepler apart is our team: bold thinkers, skilled builders, and passionate problem-solvers who thrive on pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in space. We believe great ideas come from diverse perspectives, and we’re committed to creating an environment where you can grow, lead, and make a global impact. If you’re ready to reach higher, move faster, and do work that shapes the future space economy - this is your launchpad. Come build the future with Kepler! What We Offer: - Competitive compensation designed to recognize and reward your contributions. - Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance —including dependents. - 401(k) and an annual Wellness Allowance. - Unlimited vacation, supportive parental leave policy, and company-wide holiday shutdown. - Semi-annual company-wide parties and regular (virtual and team events. - Relocation packages available for approved roles. - $1,500 annual professional development fund to support your growth. - Town Halls, Celebration Calls and Frequent company-wide events to stay connected and engaged. - We’re a certified Great Place to Work ®, five years in a row at our Canadian Headquarters. As Kepler begins to scale globally, a priority expansion market is the United States both commercially and supporting US Government customers.  Kepler’s new US-based Chief Architect will report directly to the Kepler Communications US President and be pivotal in growing the business technologically as well as providing critical support for the engineering and business development teams. The Chief Architect will also support the Kepler executive team on key strategic initiatives that will increase usage and capabilities of the Kepler Network. As a key member of a passionate, accomplished team of experts, you will participate in the technical development of satellites and their subsystems - laser focused on the Kepler Vision of building the internet in space.  We are seeking a proactive, self-driven, service-oriented individual with excellent oral, written and interpersonal skills that can thrive in a fast-paced environment.   In this hands-on position, you will work with business development, engineering, and Kepler’s customers to drive growth and market presence for the Kepler US entity. This position will directly impact the history of space development and the growth of the space economy requiring your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards effective and timely development of Kepler's unique space solutions. Key Responsibilities: Technical Visionary leading the architecting and development of high-level technical solutions, concepts, and applications for new market opportunities from inception through commercialization in concert and coordination with business development and engineering Customer Champion contributing to the development of marketing and sales materials for new technical concepts, applications and solutions including customer presentations and proposals Partners with the sales & business development and engineering teams to identify and develop solutions that address the needs of US Government customers as well as strategic applications from the company’s existing portfolio of technologies and capabilities Partners with Kepler’s engineering team to identify, assess and advance technical upgrades to existing products supporting efforts in the US, both commercial and government, as well as key strategic initiatives worldwide Maintains a working knowledge of space industry developments, markets, cutting edge technologies and associated trends Serves as the technology leader on Kepler’s US leadership team Travel approximately 25-30% annually (domestic and international) Required Skills & Qualifications: