Chief of Staff

The role of the Chief of Staff has been given various definitions in the last several years, but at Beeflow, it can be broken down very simply: creatively solve any problem that is thrown your way with a bias toward efficiency and an executive mindset. In return, you will learn firsthand how a rapidly growing company is built, run, and scaled. The Chief of Staff role is constantly changing based on the needs of the company. You will have your hand in almost every part of the business at some point, but most importantly, you will be the right-hand person, a confidant and force multiplier of the CEO, helping to both amplify their efforts and function as a thought partner on a diverse set of challenges. As the CoS, you will regularly need to switch between the strategic and the tactical, and make connections between the two.

This role is based in Buenos Aires but implies a heavy travelling schedule to visit operations in Peru and the US and to meet investors, wherever they might be.

What You'll Do

Things at Beeflow are constantly changing, so the role you start in will very likely feel different from the role you end in. Here are some areas you'll be heavily involved in:

• Fundraising: assist the CEO through fundraising processes. This includes: building a database of best VCs to partner with, tracking conversations and keeping them updated on our management system, building fundraising materials (decks, data room, etc) and representing the CEO in internal and external conversations
• Investors relations: assist the CEO through the management of Beeflow's board, creating materials for board meetings, attending meetings with board members, building update reports to investors and managing relationships with them on behalf of the CEO
• Strategic planning: working alongside the CEO and the Leadership team throughout our planning cycles every quarter. Helping guarantee timelines are followed and the organization operates on track with crop & financial calendars as well as quarterly based OKRs
• Goal setting / organization: help the CEO manage annual and quarterly OKRs with each department. Run planning meetings with the Leadership team and track progress of goals and learnings. Track key strategic actions, drive them to closure; manage the process of tracking and communicating performance against objectives
• Coordinating operating cadence of Leadership Team: attend weekly Leadership team L10 meetings, monthly OKRs deep dive meetings and quarterly in-person retreats. Help the CEO manage meetings agendas with the aim to build the best high performance Leadership team.
• Recommending, leading, and/or implementing process improvement initiatives: track closely every department quarter OKRs, seek for cross-pollination opportunities between teams and opportunities to improve every team's performance
• Internal/External communications: help the CEO manage his agenda and prioritize work. Lead initiatives that help improve internal communication between departments and assist the CEO with internal communications (organize All-Hands agenda and build materials, track action items from CEO meetings, etc). Occasionally representing Beeflow externally, whether that means visiting customers or speaking with the media. Serve as the key interface to the CEO's office for external groups (i.e. customers and partners) as well as internal team members
• Leading special projects: manage strategic initiatives that include launching into new markets, developing new products, technologies and business models, and analyzing joint ventures and M&A opportunities. Managing and coordinating highly cross functional initiatives
• Empower the CEO: prepare the CEO for high consequence external and internal meetings. Be a strategic advisor and confidant of the CEO, helping to both amplify their efforts throughout the company and function as a thought partner on a diverse set of challenges. You will have your hand in almost every part of the business. Facilitate and manage the process of identifying, prioritizing, chartering, communicating, and managing key projects pertaining to our CEO. You will support him in his day to day activities (presentations to customers, executives and other external audiences, preparation for critical meetings and business reviews). The CoS will meet the CEO multiple times per week to coordinate his agenda and distribute responsibilities
  
  
  

About Beeflow

Beeflow is a biotech startup company that leverages scientific knowledge and technology to improve the impact of ecosystem services in agriculture. Beeflow creates and manages pollination programs for farmers with the goal of consistently increasing crop yields. The company combines scientific knowledge of crop pollination, bee biology & behavior and chemical ecology with proprietary technologies including molecules that help train bees to pollinate specific crops and a plant-based bee diet that enhances bees' immune system. This novel approach to pollination management allows growers to produce more with less.

Based in California and with operations across the US West Coast, Mexico, Peru and Argentina, Beeflow closed an $8.3M Series A in May 2021 with Ospraie Ag Sciences, Future Ventures, Vectr Ventures, Jeff Wilke (former CEO of Worldwide Consumer at Amazon), SOSV and others. Beeflow's team of experts includes biologists, ecologists, entomologists, agronomists, and entrepreneurs.

For more information about Beeflow, please visit www.beeflow.com

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in areas such as business administration, economics, finance, industrial engineering or logistics. Master's degree is a plus
• Consulting experience, with a focus on operations management
• Experience working in a startup is highly desirable
• Experience working with VCs and investement is a plus
• Experience in organizing and directing multiple teams and departments
• Experience in planning and leading strategic initiatives
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, both in english and spanish
• Versatile abilities and extreme dedication to efficient productivity
• Experience in data analysis and budget management
• Proven success in a project coordination role
• Strong project-reporting skills, with focus on interdepartmental communications
• Readiness to travel internationally around 50% of your time
  
  
  

Who You Are

• Comfortable with ambiguity: Beeflow is always evolving, which means your role is evolving too. You will need to be able to thrive in open-ended situations, which makes this role both challenging and rewarding
• Flexible and adaptable learner: You will likely have your hand in a little bit of everything, which means you'll regularly come across situations you've never encountered before. You'll need the attitude and aptitude of a learner
• Agile communicator: This role requires clear and broad communication. Sometimes you will be required to represent the perspective of the CEO, both internally and externally. Simultaneously, you will need to find your own voice with the CEO, the Leadership Team and the company as a whole
• Can lead without authority: Much of your time will be spent with the Leadership Team, so you'll need to work effectively with very senior / experienced people while also building strong working relationships at all levels of the company
• Curious and questioning: We are in a constant state of improving and optimizing. You will be asked to proactively question our status quo and push for improvements in our processes across the business
• Honesty: You say what you mean and mean what you say. Your opinion matters, even if that opinion is difficult to deliver
• Highly organized: We're moving fast, and things can feel chaotic sometimes. It's paramount that you can take the pace in stride and stay organized, both for you and the CEO
• Expert Project Manager: A core piece of the role will require you to track and synthesize multiple work streams across various teams in a way that amplifies the CEO's impact. Can see the forest and the trees: The CoS role is both strategic and tactical, and you will need to deftly switch between these two mindsets often
• Mission Driven: The CoS role entails living and breathing our mission and vision to create a food system more in harmony with nature. Company-mission alignment is a core part of your values
• Biased toward action: Beeflow is a high-growth company so the CoS will strive to get things done with a fast space. The role is proficient with time management and work productivity
  
  
  

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package. In addition to base salary, we offer stock options as we believe that every employee should have a stake in the company's growth
• Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance for the employee and their dependents (OSDE 310)
• A generous holiday schedule: 15 business days the week off between Christmas and New Year's
• Family Leave: 4 weeks of paid leave for the nonpregnant parent Soft Landing options to return to work after the leave both for pregnant and nonpregnant person
• hybrid work schedule that combines in-person and remote models, creating a flexible environment, where you can alternate time in the office with remote work
• In-company English lessons
• Learning & Development budget 3 days off per year to attend conferences, industry events, courses, etc