Chief of Staff

Core responsibilities:

• Lead and improve executive preparation and communication from board meetings to weekly all-hands, ensuring the CEO and stakeholders are ready for key meetings and potentially standing in for the CEO if required.
• Build clarity into strategic planning, strategy accountability, and operating model to improve execution by increasing data availability and visibility to key stakeholders, especially the executive team.
• Help CEO and co-founders create, revise, and refine company strategy and policies ranging from hiring to working norms to performance management.
• Launch new initiatives necessary for the company when there is no clear functional leader.

This role creates positive change by helping Zanskar achieve its ambitious goals to change the future of energy through geothermal development, directly contributing to displacing carbon emissions and advancing a carbon-free energy future.

Required skills and qualifications:

• Quick learner who rapidly ramps on new domains and demonstrates exceptionally strong first-principles reasoning, with high interest in applying new technologies to solve problems faster.
• Strategic prioritizer who takes nebulous direction and converts it into a clear plan, ensuring the team stays focused on the highest-leverage priorities.
• Servant leader with proven history of effective change management, able to align stakeholders even when encountering resistance to change.
• Flexible self-starter comfortable with changing priorities, dynamics, and gray areas of responsibility, acting with initiative to proactively fill gaps.
• Extreme integrity with uncompromising ethics and respect for confidentiality when handling sensitive issues.

Compensation and benefits:

• Full-time salaried position
• Paid holidays and 18 days PTO
• Medical, dental, vision coverage
• 401k
• Paid Parental Leave
• Growth opportunities in a growing startup environment

Zanskar is using better technology to find and develop new geothermal resources to make geothermal a cost-effective and vital contributor to a carbon-free energy future, revolutionizing the exploration process and setting new industry standards for discovery rates.