Chief of Staff - Chief Executive Officer

Panorama Education is one of the fastest growing startups working at the intersection of education, technology, and AI. Across the United States, 15 million students - 1 in 4 in the country - go to a school thats using Panorama to improve outcomes for students. Panoramas flagship technology platform helps school systems improve teaching and learning, student support, special education, and college and career readiness. More than 2,000 school districts and 10 state agencies use Panorama and our investors include Y Combinator, Owl Ventures, Emerson Collective, Uncork Capital, and General Atlantic.

As Chief of Staff, you will play a central role in building Panorama. In partnership with the CEO and the Executive Team, you will help translate our ambitious vision and goals into clear strategy, strong execution, and rigorous operations across the business. On any given day you will work through competing priorities, decide what is urgent and what is not, manage unforeseen challenges, navigate complex relationships, operate as the CEOs proxy in key decisions, and do it all at a fast pace. This role requires an operator mindset, curiosity, a hunger for learning, complex problem solving, influence, emotional intelligence, and exceptional judgment and communication skills. Your work spans executive operations and planning, strategic communications, cross-functional program management, board and investor relations support, and special projects and initiatives. You will work across every function of the business, with a clear view of our most important goals and the biggest risks to hitting them. Youll design and run the rhythms that keep the Executive Team aligned, accountable, and moving at speed: weekly staff meetings, quarterly planning, annual strategy and goal-setting that drives focus. Youll eliminate the overhead that drains momentum (not through process, but through clarity), and youll proactively surface problems before they become fires. You help the CEO focus on the work that matters most to Panorama, and you help the CEO be highly effective in their role. Youll help him organize and protect his time, take work off his plate, and keep an eye on operations across the business so that issues get solved without needing him. A key part of the CEOs role is external - with superintendents and state leaders, foundation executives, board members, investors, and media. Youll make sure he walks into those meetings prepared with the right materials and background. Examples of the kind of work: evaluating an M&A opportunity, running a philanthropic fundraising effort for a key initiative, drafting a cross-functional strategy around a goal, planning the executive team offsite, fixing an operational issue.
Much of what the CEO sends and says will start with you: team meeting talking points, investor updates, board materials, follow-ups to customers. Youll learn how he thinks and write things he can send with a quick sign-off rather than a heavy edit. That takes clear writing, compelling story-telling, making complicated things simple, and getting the details right.
You talk to product teams, you drop into customer calls, you pick up on tensions in the organization, you understand whats working and whats broken. Youre a peer who knows enough about GTM, finance, product strategy, and talent to ask hard questions and contribute meaningfully. Travel: 15-20%.
Our ideal candidate brings K-12 education experience or high-growth technology startup experience (a bonus if you bring both).
~6+ years of experience in chief of staff, strategy, operations, management consulting, and/or banking roles, or a directly comparable role supporting senior executive leadership.
~ Exceptional written and oral/presentation skills at the executive level. Youre never satisfied with thats how weve always done it - youre the person who challenges the team to evolve and helps Panorama stay ahead of whats possible.
~ Strong analytical and structured thinking skills; Experience designing and running operating cadences including leadership syncs, goal/OKR processes, and strategic planning cycles.
~ Preferred: strong experience using and building AI agents.

Competitive salary and performance-based bonus structure
~ Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits
~401(k) retirement plan with company match
~ Remote work arrangements