Chief of Staff

Role Overview 

Title: Chief of Staff

Hours: Full-time; Salaried

Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Manager: Carl Hoiland (CEO)

Mission – Why we exist and why we need you 

Geothermal energy is the most abundant renewable energy source in the world. However, historically it’s been hard to find and expensive to develop. At Zanskar, we’re using better technology to find and develop new geothermal resources in order to make geothermal a cost-effective and vital contributor to a carbon-free energy future. We are revolutionizing the exploration process, setting new industry standards for discovery rates and finding new prospects at an unprecedented scale.

Zanskar is seeking a high-performing Chief of Staff to act as a strategic operator to the CEO. The Chief of Staff will build and manage the company’s operating cadence, align cross-functional priorities, and ensure the company achieves its ambitious goals to change the future of energy. Success means you create leverage for the CEO, creating time and insights for him and his team to work on the most important things. 

• Executive meetings: You will lead and improve executive preparation and communication from board meetings to weekly all-hands.  You will ensure the CEO and stakeholders are ready for key meetings and may stand-in for the CEO if required.
• Ops visibility & operating model:  Scaling a growing company requires prioritization and clear communication up, down, and across the company. A major part of success will be increasing data availability and visibility to key stakeholders, especially the executive team. You will build clarity into the strategic planning, strategy accountability, and operating model to improve execution. 
• Strategic support: Help CEO and co-founders create, revise, and refine company strategy and policies ranging from hiring to working norms to performance management. 
• Special projects: You may be asked to launch new initiatives necessary for the company when there is no clear functional leader. 

• Quick learner: Rapidly ramps on new domains and demonstrates exceptionally strong first-principles reasoning. Independently produces accurate, well-structured work. Highly interested in applying new technologies to solve problems faster.
• Hunger for impact: Demonstrated interest in climate tech, energy, or building scaling startups. History of accelerating and achieving ambitious outcomes that produced meaningful results.
• Strategic prioritizer: Takes nebulous executive direction and converts it into a clear plan. Ensures the team stays focused on the highest-leverage priorities.
• Servant leadership: Brings a proven history of effective change management, especially at an executive level. Can align stakeholders, even when encountering resistance to change, and helps teams adopt new ways of working that enable everyone to achieve their goals.
• Flexibility & self-starter: Comfortable with changing priorities, dynamics, and gray areas of responsibility. Acts with initiative and proactively fills gaps to keep work moving forward.
• Extreme integrity: Operates with uncompromising ethics and respect for confidentiality when handling sensitive issues. Consistent track record of doing what you said you’d do, and approaching difficult subjects with the truth. 

• The position is located in Salt Lake City, UT
• Full Time; Salaried
• Paid holidays, and 18 days PTO
• Medical, dental, vision coverage
• 401k
• Paid Parental Leave
• A direct impact in displacing carbon emissions, and growth opportunities in a growing startup environment

Equal Opportunity Employer 

Zanskar is an equal-opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practice laws.