Chief of Staff (Stockholm)

About Polar

About the Role

What You’ll Do

• Work closely with Birk Jernström (CEO/Founder) on all of the below and more.
• Design our Business KPIs, goals and process to reach them
• Monthly reporting to investors
• Explore strategic initiatives, business development and partnerships to unlock new opportunities
• Data analysis for strategic initiatives & discussions
• Build vs. Buy analysis for key initiatives in the future
• Lead operations: Budget, accounting, legal, compliance etc.
• Design and optimize our recruitment- and onboarding processes
• Optimize alignment, culture and rituals within the team
• Organize team events, i.e Offsites to Friday demos
• ...A lot more and anything needed to unlock the next stage of our business

About You

• 5+ years of working experience
• You've worked within a startup in similar roles, e.g Chief of Staff, Business Operations or COO
• You've likely worked at McKinsey, Bain, BCG or similar
• Strong data analysis abilities (+SQL knowledge or ability to learn quickly) to continuously explore our business performance and identity new strategic bets
• You love jumping across the entire organization and switching between strategic initiatives and mundane tasks – whatever is necessary to scale our business operations and get stuff done.
• Highly curious, technical and resourceful to identify better workflows and automations for the team
• No ego and strong desire to learn & lean-in across many functions
• Entrepreneurial and likely to start your own business

We Offer

• Competitive compensation & equity.
• High autonomy & ownership. Help shape our business, team and culture – no red tape or heavy processes, we celebrate momentum and having an impact daily.
• Twice-yearly team offsites. We gather in our teammates’ cities to experience their local life, brainstorm the future, and write pseudo-code for what delightful billing should look like
• Fast-moving and pragmatic environment. A small, senior team focused on momentum over perfection. Iterating fast to improve everyday.
• Mission with leverage. Build tools that empower other builders; your work compounds through theirs

About the Team

Hiring Process

• Application Review - We’ll review your application and may reach out for intro call / meeting with Birk (Founder)

• Team Interviews - You’ll meet a few team members

• Investor Interviews – Phone interview with our investors which you'll interface with

• Take home task - You'll get a task to prepare a pitch for a strategic initiative for Polar. Building out key assumptions for it, analysis and model of the expected impact and requirements.

• Pitch - Present the strategic initiative/case and for us to discuss it together

• Reference Calls. We believe reference calls are great and help us confirm our impression and ramp up our understanding and abilities to ensure we hit the ground running productively.

• Offer 🎉