CULT Food Science is a newly formed innovative platform advancing the future of food with an exclusive focus on cultivated meat, cultured dairy and cell based technology.

It is innovative investment platform with an exclusive focus on clean, lab-grown food that is advancing the development of novel technologies to provide a sustainable, environmental, and ethical solution to the global factory farming crisis.

The company is looking for a Chief of Staff to support the company’s operations, communications, internal practices, and project management. As Chief of Staff, you will be reporting to the President/CEO. You will work closely with team members on administration, project management, strategic planning, hiring, and portfolio management. This role will serve as the senior leadership’s trusted administrator, proxy, project manager, and champion for operation across the entire team.

**This role is remote first with occasional travel. CULT Food Sciences operates a distributed team within the PST/PDT timezone.**

Key Responsibilities

Scheduling meetings
Assisting with email and communications
Assisting in managing public relations and media requests
Assisting in planning and executing meetings and project management activities
Tracking meeting follow-ups
Assist the leadership team on preparedness for important meetings and decision making, as well as acting as a sounding board for key decisions
Supporting and designing the business “operating system” that ensures team members and portfolio companies have consistent processes, and that information arrives at the right point in their decision-making process.
Advising and implementing information and decision making processes for team members.
Identifying and taking on ad hoc strategic projects.
Providing decision making support through data gathering, information analyzing, and presenting considerations to relevant stakeholders
Support process management by identify organizational process gaps, creation of solutions, documentation of processes, and continuous process improvement
Tactical management of internal communication on a daily basis
Assisting in drafting speeches and presentations
Assisting in the organization and preparation of internal communications such as weekly project updates
Serving as a trusted advisor and confidant to the leadership
Managing critical relationships on behalf of the leadership
Support on human resource operations, including setting policies—and making sure they are implemented.

Expectations:

You understand the business
You can manage projects
You can manage relationships
You have strong communication skills
You help organize priorities and time
You can anticipate and help to avoid problems
You can grasp and add value to the company’s vision
You have organizational and political acumen

Qualifications:

Have at least 5 years of operations experience in a venture capital or start-up environment – including project management, and stakeholder management
Experience running the annual budget cycle process (for example, helping department heads prepare their budget materials for presentation and year end) is a bonus
Experience assisting with board meeting preparation
Running a regular project cadence and facilitating weekly reviews
Creating and updating reports to track changes in key metrics

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