Chief of Staff (Closed)
Every once in a while, a position comes along that represents an opportunity to elevate your career trajectory and potentially, change your life. Hilltop Legal Recruiting has been retained to find a tenacious and forward-thinking attorney who is interested in supporting one of the world’s most inspiring CEO’s as Chief of Staff.
Not only is this an opportunity to move in-house in a key strategic role not normally available to attorneys, but you will sit in the center of venture and operations supporting mission-driven technology companies impacting agriculture, climate, human health and ultimately the planet. Whether you have a background in corporate governance, venture, emerging growth, energy, sustainability, agriculture or are just fired up about changing the world, we’d love to talk to you.
Position: As Chief of Staff, you will support, opine, and/or lead initiatives key to the mission of the company by taking on everyday projects (large and small) alongside the CEO.
· Create. The company is incubating a new group of world-changing companies, and you will work the CEO and team to drive the rigorous analysis and decision making behind every new venture. You might execute market analyses, identify new networks of founders, discover, and synthesize the latest scientific research, or implement frameworks to enable better analysis and decision making.
· Operate. The company continues to build their new companies, past incubation, and you will find ways to help each company grow from Seed to Pre-IPO. You might build information flows between your team and the company, implement operational best practices, facilitate (and/or attend) board meetings and set action items. You will additionally advise each Founder in your area of expertise.
· Sustain. You will continue to support the companies you build for the long term. This means supporting major strategic events, building fundraising materials, managing projects addressing long term initiatives, identifying, and executing on strategic partnerships and building and nurturing key networks of investors, corporate partners and technologist.
Like the CEO, you’ll do it all.
Experience: You went to law school to change the world, and you think there is more you can do. You have the unique perspective of understanding VC, technology, startups and corporate governance, but won’t ever be content to see the ecosystem through that one lens.
Here is how our client describes you:
· Your thinking is as precise as your communication. You create clarity through structured analysis and tailored messaging for any audience. Your attention to detail makes you the trusted source of truth, and when you speak, those around you understand and act.
· You are the consummate team player. In your professional life, you measure your own success by how successful you make those around you. No task is too small, you build cathedrals when you’re mixing mortar. You’re a relationship builder, and your work has helped high performance teams and individuals hit new heights.
· You know your tools. While this is a generalist role, you’ve got something that will make you uniquely successful. You’ve got a skill, an insight, an experience - a superpower - that allows you to have outsized impact, and you know how and when to employ it to get a job done.
· You’ve got heart. You put in the work to create something better. Your work and your mission can’t be separated.
We are looking for someone who prides themself on their EQ being as high as their IQ. Additionally, someone who has deep industry knowledge, a passion for learning, is a sponge for new information and has the ability to connect with every personality type as a trusted source and reliable partner.
Location: Bay Area
Managing director (Closed)
Hilltop Recruiting has been retained to assist the Abundance Network in finding a Managing Director with proven operational skills to help them refine & scale their chapter-based civic membership model in pursuit of their extraordinary goals. Abundance Network (AN) is an ambitious project to catalyze a national “Abundance Movement” based on the ideas of Ezra Klein and others, to update the American social contract for the 21st Century.
Over the past two years AN has built a donor network of 160 members collectively contributing $5m+ per year to reform blue state liberalism, leading to outcomes such as: (1) the election of a new Speaker in the CA Assembly (2) keeping the nuclear power plant Diablo Canyon open (3) passing significant state legislation & budget items in the areas of housing (e.g. AB 2011, AB 2097) and decarbonization ($1.4bn in incentives & subsidies) (4) starting the first municipal Abundance chapter, in San Francisco, CA. You can read more about their worldview here: Blog.
This is a unique opportunity for an entrepreneur passionate about government and public policy. Whether you have a history in nonprofits or are for the first time ready to make the transition from the private sector because of your deep resolve for public problem solving and AN’s specific manifesto, we encourage you to consider this exceptional opportunity. We alternatively would love to network with you about this role.
About The Position
The Managing Director will be responsible for refining & scaling the Abundance Network membership model. This role is equal parts creation & execution, as the model to date will need to be adapted to local contexts and there is still a ton of learning and iteration to do. As Managing Director, you will report directly to AN founders Misha Chellam Bio and Zack Rosen Bio, and will be a part of key strategic decision-making.
In this role, you will:
Refine the existing model — Embed with the San Francisco team to understand the different pieces of the current model, including high-dollar membership, mid-dollar membership, volunteer training, coalition management across politics, policy, comms, and organizing, etc.
Identify & super-serve the next 2-3 cities — Taking learnings from San Francisco, you’ll help leaders in 2-3 other cities scale up their operations, adjusting the model based on local conditions and incorporating learnings into our scaling plans.
Scale to a broader set of cities — After we’ve learned across an initial set of chapters, we’ll open up the aperture to support a growing set of local (& potentially state) chapters.
Communicate the model to external audiences — Once we’ve got conviction on scaling broadly, we’ll want to increase demand by communicating our work broadly. If you want, you’ll be one of the faces of this public communication.
Co-hold philanthropic relationships — While the model will be principally locally-funded, centralized functions can be subsidized by long term aligned philanthropic funding. You’ll help to build and hold these philanthropic relationships.
About You
You have the following Experience and Characteristics that are important in this role:
Experience
Accustomed to building organization and process around new initiatives and scaling appropriately.
Going from zero to 1 on a project independently (entrepreneurial experience).
Demonstrated passion for government (e.g. worked in gov or on a political campaign at some point in career).
Characteristics
Comfortable working autonomously and managing ambiguity.
Curiosity to learn about new spaces and unfamiliar territory.
Distill amorphous plans into concrete action items & priorities.
Deep bias for action. Repeated spark plug, you will things into existence.
Build trust and understanding across a variety of stakeholders.
The Abundance Network is specifically interested in finding a humble and curious individual accustomed to the undefined and rewarding cadence of entrepreneurship.
Location: Ideally California, or a commitment to traveling to CA frequently in the first year.