Portex
Chief of Staff
Portex, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
About Portex
Portex is building a procurement and payment operating system for the $4 trillion logistics industry - the backbone of the global economy. We’re building simple yet revolutionary freight procurement, payment and financing products so all businesses can realize pricing efficiency and transparency while navigating global trade.
Our founding team has backgrounds from Flexport, Uber, Motive, Plaid and Autodesk. We’ve raised an $8M+ seed round of funding from amazing VC firms including Susa Ventures, Footwork, Cowboy Ventures and Base10, and an incredible group of angels from founding teams at Uber, Affirm, Brex, Plaid, Cloudtrucks, Motive and more.
About the role
We are looking for a Chief of Staff to partner with the CEO on a daily basis and build Portex from the ground up. This person must have prior B2B SaaS experience at an early-stage startup (Seed or Series A).
In this role, you will be a mini CEO/COO where you must not only be comfortable, but you can thrive while balancing 5+ projects at once across various workstreams. No task is too big or too small, you are a generalist who is down to roll up your sleeves and do the work. You must be comfortable putting in 60+ hours a week as we push to hit our next crucial milestones.
The role is an incredible opportunity to have a massive impact and help define the strategy of an early-stage startup disrupting an insanely large and critical industry. If you are scrappy, analytical, entrepreneurial, and love to move fast, we want to hear from you.
The main functions you will be helping to drive are:
Operations (Finance/Legal/HR/IT/Admin)
Sales Ops, Customer Success, and GTM Operations
Analytics
Investor Relations
What you'll do
Work directly with the CEO (former leading salesperson at both Flexport and Uber) as a thought partner to develop our strategy and planning
Build runway models, and revenue forecasts, analyze current business performance, and assess market opportunities
Oversee the daily operations, tracking, and assessment of the business across company strategy/goals, growth/usage metrics, and finance/expenses
Build out early business functions and prepare a process and playbook to scale them (ideally, you’ll eventually hire to hand over these functions)
Manage sales ops, GTM ops, and customer success to ensure we hit our customer growth goals
Support CEO with sales materials, investor updates, fundraising and go-to-market efforts
Operationalize and manage manual tests of potential revenue-generating opportunities
Manage all the day to day operational tasks that keep the business running (e.g. vendor management, employee onboarding, compliance, expense management, IT, etc)
Drive special projects and constantly think of new ways to add value to the business (e.g. through partnerships, growth/product ideas, experiments, etc)
Qualifications
Has 3+ years of consulting, strategy, and/or financial services experience
Has 1-3 years in an operating role at an early-stage B2B SaaS startup (Seed or Series A)
Can operate at the same strategic level and rate-of-change as the CEO, who possesses the independence of thought critical to building a high-growth, constantly-evolving business
Can get into the weeds and execute at a high level even when given relatively little direction
Is able to quickly identify signals from noise and the highest-efficiency tactics to solve any problem
Is highly efficient at getting things done and can right-size the quality of their work to what is needed for the specific task or project
Is very detail-oriented, especially when it comes to content that is going out to investors or customers
Is not only organized themselves but excellent at organizing and aligning the team against the work that needs to be done to accomplish our goals
Is able to build a disciplined operating rhythm for the business yet flexible enough to respond to high-value opportunities in real-time
It is important that this person is based in the Bay Area to partner and work with the CEO in-person at least 3x days per week.
We offer a competitive salary and equity package, additional benefits include:
Medical, dental and vision insurance
Unlimited vacation policy
Your choice of laptop and other home office equipment
Diversity and inclusion are important to us, and we provide equal opportunity for all applicants and employees. We are building a company that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills and know that more inclusion only makes our work and work environment better.
If you have any questions please reach out to careers@portexpro.com.
Screener Questions
The main characteristic is someone who can manage across the entire organization and know what is going on with each part as I do. In this role you would be a mini CEO/COO - so you will have to juggle multiple parts of the business and projects simultaneously. You have experience being a generalist with a SaaS background.
The screener questions help us to understand your experience a little deeper before jumping on a call. If there are any you would like to skip for now just include NA.
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Portex is building a procurement and payment operating system for the $4 trillion logistics industry - the backbone of the global economy. We’re building simple yet revolutionary freight procurement, payment and financing products so all businesses can realize pricing efficiency and transparency while navigating global trade.
Our founding team has backgrounds from Flexport, Uber, Motive, Plaid and Autodesk. We’ve raised an $8M+ seed round of funding from amazing VC firms including Susa Ventures, Footwork, Cowboy Ventures and Base10, and an incredible group of angels from founding teams at Uber, Affirm, Brex, Plaid, Cloudtrucks, Motive and more.
About the role
We are looking for a Chief of Staff to partner with the CEO on a daily basis and build Portex from the ground up. This person must have prior B2B SaaS experience at an early-stage startup (Seed or Series A).
In this role, you will be a mini CEO/COO where you must not only be comfortable, but you can thrive while balancing 5+ projects at once across various workstreams. No task is too big or too small, you are a generalist who is down to roll up your sleeves and do the work. You must be comfortable putting in 60+ hours a week as we push to hit our next crucial milestones.
The role is an incredible opportunity to have a massive impact and help define the strategy of an early-stage startup disrupting an insanely large and critical industry. If you are scrappy, analytical, entrepreneurial, and love to move fast, we want to hear from you.
The main functions you will be helping to drive are:
Operations (Finance/Legal/HR/IT/Admin)
Sales Ops, Customer Success, and GTM Operations
Analytics
Investor Relations
What you'll do
Work directly with the CEO (former leading salesperson at both Flexport and Uber) as a thought partner to develop our strategy and planning
Build runway models, and revenue forecasts, analyze current business performance, and assess market opportunities
Oversee the daily operations, tracking, and assessment of the business across company strategy/goals, growth/usage metrics, and finance/expenses
Build out early business functions and prepare a process and playbook to scale them (ideally, you’ll eventually hire to hand over these functions)
Manage sales ops, GTM ops, and customer success to ensure we hit our customer growth goals
Support CEO with sales materials, investor updates, fundraising and go-to-market efforts
Operationalize and manage manual tests of potential revenue-generating opportunities
Manage all the day to day operational tasks that keep the business running (e.g. vendor management, employee onboarding, compliance, expense management, IT, etc)
Drive special projects and constantly think of new ways to add value to the business (e.g. through partnerships, growth/product ideas, experiments, etc)
Qualifications
Has 3+ years of consulting, strategy, and/or financial services experience
Has 1-3 years in an operating role at an early-stage B2B SaaS startup (Seed or Series A)
Can operate at the same strategic level and rate-of-change as the CEO, who possesses the independence of thought critical to building a high-growth, constantly-evolving business
Can get into the weeds and execute at a high level even when given relatively little direction
Is able to quickly identify signals from noise and the highest-efficiency tactics to solve any problem
Is highly efficient at getting things done and can right-size the quality of their work to what is needed for the specific task or project
Is very detail-oriented, especially when it comes to content that is going out to investors or customers
Is not only organized themselves but excellent at organizing and aligning the team against the work that needs to be done to accomplish our goals
Is able to build a disciplined operating rhythm for the business yet flexible enough to respond to high-value opportunities in real-time
It is important that this person is based in the Bay Area to partner and work with the CEO in-person at least 3x days per week.
We offer a competitive salary and equity package, additional benefits include:
Medical, dental and vision insurance
Unlimited vacation policy
Your choice of laptop and other home office equipment
Diversity and inclusion are important to us, and we provide equal opportunity for all applicants and employees. We are building a company that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills and know that more inclusion only makes our work and work environment better.
If you have any questions please reach out to careers@portexpro.com.
Screener Questions
The main characteristic is someone who can manage across the entire organization and know what is going on with each part as I do. In this role you would be a mini CEO/COO - so you will have to juggle multiple parts of the business and projects simultaneously. You have experience being a generalist with a SaaS background.
The screener questions help us to understand your experience a little deeper before jumping on a call. If there are any you would like to skip for now just include NA.
#J-18808-Ljbffr