Chief of Staff

About the Role:

The Principal Consultant Chief of Staff Vertical plays a mission-critical role in enabling CEOs and CXOs to accelerate growth, unlock productivity, and drive strategic execution. This role acts as a strategic thought partner and execution leader, orchestrating cross-functional alignment, embedding leadership routines, strengthening governance, and ensuring business outcomes through structure, discipline, and high-quality problem solving.

The ideal candidate is a senior consulting professional with strong strategy-to-execution capability, business intelligence, leadership advisory experience, and comfort working in high-ambiguity, high-velocity environments.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategic Acceleration & Growth Enablement

• Anchor business strategy deployment using Flipcarbons W3M framework and execution models.
• Translate long-term strategy into quarterly execution cycles (90-day priorities, milestones, outcomes).
• Lead ASOCK goal-setting & review mechanisms to drive enterprise-wide accountability.
• Identify growth opportunities, innovation pathways, revenue levers, and efficiency improvements.

Cross-Functional Alignment

• Build and maintain enterprise dashboards and business performance scorecards (CarbonEye).
• Establish shared OKRs and inter-department review structures to drive alignment.
• Facilitate collaboration across Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR, Product, Ops, and Engineering.
• Conduct organization design audits and recommend structural improvements.

Decision Support & Leadership Routines

• Design CEO/CXO management cadences (Weekly-Monthly-Quarterly) using the Power of 69 model.
• Perform data-driven scenario modelling and trade-off analysis for balanced decisions.
• Synthesize internal performance insights and market intelligence for strategic clarity.
• Support investor & board-level communication through investment-grade analysis packs.

Talent, Culture & Leadership Enablement

• Strengthen leadership cohesion and trust using structured development and collaboration mechanisms.
• Support succession planning, role clarity, and leadership readiness frameworks.
• Partner with HR to integrate capability & culture interventions into business outcomes.
• Lead cultural change initiatives and drive high-performance rituals.

CEO / CXO Advisory

• Serve as a confidential sounding board to leaders on strategic, organisational, or interpersonal dilemmas.
• Act as a constructive challenger, identifying blind spots and systemic barriers.
• Facilitate complex or sensitive conversations to drive clarity and resolution.
• Enable transition moves and transformation agendas without creating noise.

Experience Required:

1015 years in management consulting, business transformation, strategy, or enterprise leadership roles, with proven experience working closely with CXOs and leading cross-functional execution.

Education and Qualifications:

MBA/PGDM in Operations, Strategy, Supply Chain, Analytics, or related fields1015 years of experience in management consulting / strategy / transformation / P&L leadership.

Must Have:

• Demonstrated ability to drive enterprise-level execution and cross-functional orchestration.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving capability.
• Experience working directly with founders, CEOs, and CXOs.
• High credibility, executive presence, and ability to influence senior leaders.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication, facilitation, and storytelling.

Good to have:

• Experience in scaling organizations, hyper-growth environments, or turnaround situations.
• Exposure to investor relations, board-level communication, or fundraising ecosystems.
• Comfort managing high ambiguity and extreme ownership roles.
• Capability to design and manage digital dashboards and insights tools.