Our vision & mission: Paro is freeing business professionals from the constraints of traditional employment by empowering them to pursue meaningful work on their own terms. In turn, we are democratizing access to the business solutions that companies need. 

What we deliver: 

Paro provides flexible finance and accounting solutions to businesses via its network of highly vetted freelance experts. Through our proprietary AI-powered platform, we match clients with the best-fit experts to solve problems and drive growth. Our carefully curated expert community provides a range of financial services to clients, from basic bookkeeping and accounting to highly specialized corporate development and strategic advisory.

The Role:

The Chief of Staff is the right-hand person and force-multiplier to the Chief Executive Officer. The leverage you provide to the CEO will be a driving force behind Paro’s aggressive and expansive growth. This role will also support the rest of the Executive Team. You will get a front-row seat to a high-growth company and be a thought partner to the c-suite on major company decisions. You will work on some really interesting problems, get a crash course on all aspects of running a business, and learn first-hand how to be a great senior executive.

Key Areas Of Focus Include:

• Operations: help create and manage the rhythm of the business across a range of departments
• Project management: Be the go-to person that ensures continuity and successful completion of goals across the teams.
• Communications: develop written and verbal communications for internal and external stakeholders
• Oversee strategic business initiatives from development through successful execution under the guidance of senior leadership and departmental heads
• Improve current processes and coordinate organizational procedures for optimized efficiency and productivity

Core Responsibilities & How You’ll Add Value:

You will own strategic projects as an extension of the CEO’s office, enable our Executive Team to make more efficient decisions and manage their teams, and coordinate projects to completion (while not always owning them). This means you will zig one day and zag another. The leverage you provide can come in the form of ad-hoc support or longer-term special projects. A few examples include lead a metrics overhaul, do customer research on an adjacent business opportunity, help on search for an executive hire.

• Build and develop relationships with all employees for increased efficiency and effective responsiveness into existing operations, and help to define new operational strategies, working with CEO and executives on special projects
• Serve as liaison between staff, executives, senior leaders, and CEO, regarding company climate, employee well-being, project updates, proposals, and planning
• Support internal and external communications: this role will spend time on communications, managing staff meetings and priorities, building decision-making frameworks, especially as our accelerating growth demands that we spend more time and attention on driving alignment

The ideal candidate for the Chief of Staff / PM role will have:

• 3+ years of operations management experience with Strong quantitative abilities and general business analysis skills
• Proven experience organizing and directing multiple teams and departments
• Excellent communicator in written and verbal form: Ability to work autonomously, while gracefully navigating executive-level interpersonal dynamics
• Experience planning and leading strategic initiatives with Ability to work autonomously, while gracefully navigating executive-level interpersonal dynamics
• A gifted growth mindset, infinite learning abilities, and strong resourcefulness and scrappiness
• Consulting experience with a focus on operations management
• Nimble business mind with a focus on developing creative solutions
• Strong project reporting skills, with a focus on interdepartmental communication
• Great interpersonal skills: you’ll work with a lot of different people. It’s important you can build trusted relationships with people efficiently

Who you are:

We’re more interested in how you add to our innovative community than formal education or experience. That said, you will shine in this role if you:

Believe that in order to be successful, you need to be surrounded with others who can be their authentic selves at work while driving forward the future of work with Paro. You value taking smart risks and having your colleague’s backs. You welcome challenges and are rigorous in ensuring all voices are heard. You are open to understanding each other’s experiences and communicating effectively together. At Paro we work hard, but we also want every employee to enjoy the journey. You work collaboratively, do the right thing, never settle and put your best work into everything you do. 

Benefits at Paro:

• Benefits - We offer a comprehensive benefits package including: medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield), dental, vision, and a 401(k) plan. Paro currently does not match 401(k).
• Vacation - We offer our employees unlimited vacation, as we believe rest and recharging allows you to bring your full self into work. In addition to unlimited vacation, we observe all federal holidays and offer unique Paro Holidays during months there isn’t a federal holiday
• Office Environment - We have a beautiful, relaxed office space in River North, steps away from public transportation. We love our pets and have a pet-friendly office for your furry friends as well.
• Remote Work - Given our company’s mission to empower professionals to pursue meaningful work on their own terms, we believe we too can accomplish great things while not always together under one roof. Therefore, we accept remote employees in the following states: IL, OH, MI, AZ, FL, WA, PA, NJ, NY, TX, IN

More about Paro 

Join us as we shape the future of finance work. A mass migration to a workforce without boundaries is already underway, with many leading analysts predicting that 50% of the workforce will be freelancing by 2025. We recently raised a $25M Series B funding round led by Madrona Venture Group, with participation from existing investors Revolution Ventures, Sierra Ventures and KGC Capital, so we are ready and excited to invest in even greater growth as we disrupt the $500+bn antiquated finance and accounting industry!

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to building a company that embraces and celebrates diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.