Chief of Staff to the CRO

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San Francisco, CA
190K-257K Annually
Entry level
Information Technology
The Role
The Chief of Staff to the CRO at Anaplan will serve as a strategic partner, facilitating business meetings, collaborating with various teams, managing communications, and solving complex issues to optimize operations and support the CRO in achieving business objectives.
Summary Generated by Built In

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators who are focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies that rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals and we have fun celebrating our wins.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and be your best self!

Key responsibilities:

  • Acts as a sounding board and thought partner to the CRO and GTM LT for new ideas and initiatives
  • Helps define, drive, and run CRO-level and relevant business meetings/reviews and programs including staff meetings, leadership off-sites, QBRs, FTHMs, etc.
  • Collaborates with CRO’s CCBP and People Business Partner to prepare background, talking points, and/or presentations for internal and external speaking engagements. This includes managing organizational announcements and confidential projects
  • Partners with the CRO’s HR Business Partner, Talent Acquisition Partner, Finance Partner and GTM Operations leader in planning, metrics, reporting, and decisions related to the GTM organization
  • Close collaboration with GTM Ops lead and Finance lead to effectively run GTM organization and enable timely business decisions
  • Close collaboration with Internal Comms, HR, Ops, Finance to drive Change management and communications
  • Effectively triages escalations, including driving cross-functional conversations to get to the bottom of complex issues that may be blockers or helping to ensure a thoughtful, respectful, and acting with urgency for specific prospects, customer issues/needs and/or internal friction
  • Maintains and fosters a close partnership with the CEO’s Chief of Staff and Chief People Officer on strategic initiatives and people agenda
  • Manages weekly GTM leadership staff meetings, including, but not limited to, creating agendas and enrolling participants with sufficient lead time if they are presenting and describing the outcome they should be driving, so they are actively prepared and so that the meetings are high impact use of time, timely follow-up of action items
  • Provides feedback on briefing materials for key customer/partner meetings/events prepared by others in the organization to ensure the outcomes, talking points, background on attendees/presenters, current business relationship, and opportunities are all clearly identified
  • Helps identify items that can be delegated to others to optimize the CRO’s time allocation to high-value activities

Key attributes:

  • Exceptional communication skills
  • Collaborative working style; proven ability to work across internal stakeholders and across functions
  • Passion for solving complex problems and building scalable processes
  • Highly proactive
  • Proven ability to quickly learn new things
  • Track record of handling confidential information with the utmost sensitivity
  • Ability to shift priorities quickly and act proactively while maintaining poise and professionalism, not only for themselves, but also for others who may need to also quickly shift priorities; has the emotional intelligence to know when to push back on things that may need more time and things that require urgent attention and helping others also balance these priorities
  • Able to manage collaborative dialogue with the GTM LT and C-Suite with ease and confidence
  • Is hyper-focused about concise written and verbal communication, concentrating on the outcome vs the task at hand

Background:

  • Bachelor’s degree; MBA preferred
  • Comfortable working across multiple time zones / engaging with global stakeholders
  • Travel will be required







Base Salary Range:

$190,000$257,000 USD

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusionand Belonging 

Build your career in a place that thrives on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day! 

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. 

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It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondence, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals.  

Anaplan does not: 

  • Extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person.  
  • Send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible, and then followed up via written communication. 

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
2,194 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Anaplan is building a future where connected leaders and teams are able to constantly adapt, transform and reinvent their businesses. We make it possible to share actionable insights, empower and unleash creativity, and drive innovation. With Anaplan, finance and operational leaders across the organization can model complex scenarios, forecast continuously with added intelligence, and make agile decisions with confidence.

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