# Director, Chief of Staff

**Company**: MongoDB
**Location**: Palo Alto
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Transform your career by becoming the Chief of Staff (CoS) to MongoDB's Chief Information Officer, working directly with executives and the leadership team across MongoDB, including but not limited to within the IT organization.

## The Role

The Chief of Staff to the CIO is a senior operator who multiplies the CIO's impact. You will run the operating rhythm of the Office of the CIO, lead the IT Program Management Office (ITPMO) that governs the IT portfolio and drive strategic program execution.

You possess the ability to blend strategic direction with hands-on tactical execution: shaping the CIO's agenda, translating IT strategy into plans and measurable outcomes, and making sure decisions are made on time and followed through. You will operate as a versatile, right-hand to help manage initiatives, demonstrating excellent program management and organizational skills, building the mechanisms that help IT scale.

## What You'll Do

- Shape and manage the CIO's agenda, ensuring time and focus go to the highest-value priorities

- Act as a trusted advisor and thought partner, framing decisions with clear options and trade-offs

- Design and run the IT operating cadence, including IT leadership team meetings, QBRs, planning cycles, offsites, and executive and board readouts

- Build workback plans, track commitments, and surface risks early

- Partner with CIO Leadership team to translate IT strategy into annual and quarterly objectives, OKRs, and plans, and track progress against them

- Collaborate, influence and align peers towards IT strategy objectives

- Lead the ITPMO and maintain a single view of the IT portfolio: status, risks, dependencies, value, and alignment to company priorities

- Oversee CIO-sponsored, cross-pillar programs and special projects

- Partner with Finance and IT leaders on budget, forecasting, headcount, and vendor and SaaS spend

- Partner with the HR Business Leader on the execution of the highest priorities, adoption of organizational changes, leadership transitions, and other business priorities

- Draft and quality-check CIO and leadership communications

- Guide change management for major initiatives

- Partner with Chiefs of Staff and leaders across the executive team and business units

- Represent the CIO where appropriate and manage through influence

- Lead and develop the ITPMO team and the Executive Administrators supporting the IT VPs

- Define delivery standards and ways of working, and use data and AI-enabled tools to make governance, reporting, and executive support faster and more scalable

## What You'll Bring

- 10+ years of experience in management consulting, strategy and operations, IT/enterprise program or portfolio management, or chief of staff roles

- Experience leading a team, including managers or professionals in program management and/or executive support

- Experience supporting or advising senior executives

- Proven ability to design and run governance frameworks, operating cadences, and decision processes

- Financial acumen: comfort with budgets, forecasting, and investment prioritization

- Exceptional written and verbal communication

- Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills

- High EQ, low ego, and sound judgment

- AI-fluent

- Familiarity with IT delivery and technology portfolios

## What Success Looks Like

- The CIO's time and focus are aligned to the highest-value priorities

- IT's strategic initiatives are governed through one transparent portfolio

- IT investments align to company objectives and OKRs

- The ITPMO is recognized across the company for execution excellence

- IT VPs receive consistent, high-quality executive support

## Skills

### Required
- management consulting
- strategy and operations
- IT/enterprise program or portfolio management
- chief of staff roles
- program management
- executive support
- governance frameworks
- operating cadences
- decision processes
- financial acumen
- budgets
- forecasting
- investment prioritization
- written and verbal communication
- analytical and systems-thinking skills
- AI-fluent

### Nice to have
- familiarity with IT delivery and technology portfolios
- agile and change management practices

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