Hybrid Chief of Staff to CEO

at Employer Direct Healthcare

• Job title: Chief of Staff to CEO
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dallas, United States

About the role

• Chief of Staff supporting CEO at Lantern, a specialty care platform connecting people with top healthcare. Driving strategic initiatives and operational efficiency while facilitating alignment across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Own the CEO’s operating system: priorities, calendar architecture, decision forums, and information flow.
• Prepare the CEO for key meetings - develop agendas, synthesize materials, and ensure crisp decision-making.
• Ruthlessly protect focus: filter noise, triage inbound requests, and align time to top priorities.
• Design and run the rhythm of the business (weekly/monthly/quarterly): leadership meetings, reviews, offsites.
• Create repeatable structures for planning, execution, and accountability across teams.
• Facilitate high-impact meetings – agenda, pre-work, outcomes, and downstream follow-through.
• Lead time-bound, cross-functional initiatives that require early momentum, clarity, and structured execution.
• Stand up new efforts and smoothly transition ownership to functional leaders once stabilized.
• Ensure all departments are aligned with company-wide priorities, proactively removing roadblocks and driving accountability for execution across the organization.
• Build and maintain dashboards and briefings that distill complex data into actionable insights.
• Run OKR/goal setting cycles; track progress and drive accountability to outcomes.
• Proactively surface and analyze risks, tradeoffs, and scenario analyses to inform CEO decisions.
• Ensure the CEO’s priorities and context are clearly understood across the organization & executive leaders.
• Draft internal updates, executive communications, board materials, and strategic narratives.
• Foster transparency and shared context across teams to avoid ambiguity.
• Implement processes and lightweight systems that enhance speed, quality, and consistency.
• Identify operational bottlenecks; propose and lead improvement efforts to streamline workflows.
• Partner with Finance/People/IT on resource planning, annual cycles, and key initiatives.
• Be a driver of effective change management, including fostering innovation and experimentation and working through organizational blockers
• Keep a pulse on team engagement, morale, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Model high standards of preparation, clarity, and follow-through; raise the bar on meeting hygiene.
• Help onboard leaders to the CEO’s operating style; coach teams on effective upward communication.

Requirements

• 5+ years of strategy consulting, investment banking and / or private investment experience (venture/growth/PE), with demonstrated high performance required
• 3+ years of executive-oriented experience preferred (CoS to C-level, other senior level roles with high executive engagement)
• 3+ years of experience working in US healthcare a plus (digital health, tech-enabled healthcare services, employer benefits)
• Be a strong communicator: both verbally and written; sharp, concise, persuasive
• Be a strategic thinker: comfortable both thinking through how to address challenges, solve problems all while consistently prioritizing where to focus
• Lead with influence: building consensus while navigating complexity
• Be comfortable in a fast-paced environment that can be challenging but highly rewarding
• Highly structured and organized – demonstrated ability to bring order and process to dynamic situations

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance
• 401k with company match
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave