Chief of Staff, Engineering
- Compensation
- $200K–$220K / yr
- Location
- US Remote
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- C level
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Category
- Operations
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 7+ years of experience in a role combining program management, project management, and executive or leadership support
- Prior experience as a Chief of Staff or Engineering Leadership roles a plus
- Strong executive presence and the judgment to represent leadership credibly across the org and with external stakeholders
- A data-driven, metrics-driven approach to decision making, with the ability to turn fragmented operational signals into clear reporting and insight
- Proven ability to drive accountability, coordination, and follow-through across engineering and product teams without direct authority
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience owning monthly and quarterly business reviews, executive-facing updates, and cross-functional status reporting
- Comfort using automation and AI to improve reporting quality, operating efficiency, and recurring workflow execution
- Good judgment in prioritization, escalation, and leadership support in ambiguous or fast-moving situations
- Experience owning QBRs, executive reporting, all-hands content, or org planning processes
- Familiarity with DORA-style metrics, SLO/SLA thinking, release hygiene, and delivery scorecards
- Experience building AI-assisted dashboards, automations, or reporting systems
- Experience working in security, SaaS, endpoint, platform, or infrastructure-heavy environments
- Experience supporting globally distributed engineering organizations
- Prior experience transitioning from a technical or program management background into a Chief of Staff or executive operations role
- Located in the Eastern Timezone to support our Global team.
Full description
Cyberhaven is looking for a Chief of Staff for Engineering to collaborate and perform as an operating partner and force multiplier for engineering leadership, driving operating cadence, cross-organizational execution, and data-driven decision making across the entire engineering org. This role is accountable for turning strategic priorities into clear execution plans, and for giving leadership the visibility, metrics, and follow-through they need to run engineering like a well-oiled machine.
This is a hybrid role that blends program management, project management, and executive operations: the person in this role will sit close to engineering leadership, represent their priorities across the org, and be the connective tissue between strategy and day-to-day execution. Influence and impact come from judgment, trust, and cross-functional credibility rather than direct authority.
This role also serves as the primary architect of engineering leadership's monthly and quarterly business reviews, all-hands content, org planning, and leadership offsites providing decision support, surfacing risk, and driving follow-through on the company's highest-priority engineering initiatives.
This role goes well beyond traditional chief of staff work. It requires strong executive presence to represent leadership credibly in front of the org and external stakeholders, deep comfort with data and metrics to turn fragmented signals into clear decision support, and an AI-forward mindset to automate the reporting and operating mechanisms that let Cyberhaven scale how it plans, tracks, communicates, and reviews its work.
What you'll do
Strategic Partnership and Executive Support
- Act as a trusted advisor and thought partner to engineering leadership, helping translate strategic priorities into clear execution plans, success criteria, and operating mechanisms across the org
- Own the engineering leadership operating cadence, including staff meetings, monthly and quarterly business reviews, org planning, and leadership offsites, setting agendas, preparing materials, and driving follow-through on decisions and action items
- Represent engineering leadership's priorities across the organization, ensuring alignment between engineering, product, and go-to-market teams on key initiatives
- Prepare executive-facing communications, board and all-hands content, and cross-functional updates on behalf of engineering leadership
- Act as a sounding board and extension of leadership on sensitive or ambiguous organizational topics, including headcount planning, org design, and prioritization tradeoffs
- Build trust and credibility across engineering, product, and business stakeholders to effectively drive alignment without formal authority