Chief of Staff to the CEO

Job Description

Job Description

Salary: $90,000 to $125,000

Travefy is the connected system powering the travel industry.

More than 50,000 travel agencies and advisors run their businesses on Travefy: one platform to manage clients, design and sell stunning trips, market their brands, and run the back office. Everything connects around the trip, so advisors spend less time juggling software and more time wowing clients.

Travel is booming, a new generation of advisors is reshaping the industry, and Travefy builds the tools they run on. Come help shape how an entire industry works.

About the Role

This is a rare seat. As Chief of Staff you will report directly to the CEO and work with the entire senior leadership team as a force multiplier across the company. You will sit in the room where strategy and growth decisions get made, then make them real.

One week you might drive a growth initiative or research a major partnership. The next you might prep a strategy session, launch a company wide program, or jumpstart a project with no playbook. And some of the work is wonderfully ordinary: payroll, review cycles, Friday lunch. That work keeps a whole company focused on what it does best, and the best people in this seat build systems that make it hum.

Some roles hand you a lane. This one hands you the whole map. It is an entry point to leadership at Travefy, built for someone hungry, incredibly capable, and early in a high trajectory career who wants the broadest operating experience a company can offer.

What You'll Own

Special Projects and Strategic Initiatives

You'll take high priority projects from ambiguous ask to shipped outcome.

• Own high impact projects across growth, operations, and strategy, the ones that move the company but have no natural home.
• Support enterprise growth and partnerships with research and analysis that shapes real decisions.

Leadership Operating Rhythm

You'll keep our leadership team focused, aligned, and on track.

• Run the cadence behind our leadership meetings: agendas, action items, and closed loops.
• Build the systems the company runs on, from priority trackers to our KPI rhythm.
• Prepare strategic materials for leadership and Board of Directors meetings.

People and HR Operations

You'll own the systems that keep our team running smoothly, about 20% of your time.

• Coordinate hiring, onboarding, benefits administration, and our promotion and review cycles.
• Run payroll and contractor payments, working with our accountants on related processes.
• Own the moments that make Travefy special: team events, retreats, and weekly office lunch.
• As Travefy grows, this area is designed to spin out into a dedicated People role, and your scope evolves with the company.

Who You Are

Must Haves

• 2 to 5 years in a high standards environment such as consulting, banking, or startup operations. We screen on capabilities, not titles.
• A super organizer who creates order from chaos.
• A reliable closer: no dropped balls, no reminders needed.
• Strong analytical skills: fluent in spreadsheets, at home with models and messy data.
• A strategic thinker with an owner's mindset.
• Able to influence without authority, with judgment and tact.
• AI native: you already use tools like Claude to multiply your output.
• Totally discreet. This seat sees sensitive information every day.
• Authorized to work in the U.S.

Nice to Haves

• Exposure to HR or people operations (payroll, benefits, review cycles).
• SaaS or travel industry familiarity.
• Based in the Pennington, New Jersey area, able to work alongside our CEO.

This role is probably not for you if

• You want a single lane with a clean scope handed to you.
• You think any work is beneath you. Payroll runs and lunch orders sit next to board prep here.
• You need structure to be productive. This role writes the playbook rather than following one.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation: $90,000 to $125,000 based on experience, plus an annual leadership bonus target of 5 to 10% tied to company growth milestones.
• Health, Dental & Vision insurance for you and your family.
• Life and Disability insurance.
• 401(k) with automatic company contribution.
• Unlimited Vacation + Annual Travel Stipend.
• Annual all team retreat to connect the whole company in person.
• Technology, learning budgets, and more.
• Unmatched exposure: a front row seat to strategy, finance, people, and growth at the platform powering an industry, with a real path into leadership.

Location & Eligibility

This is a full time role with a strong preference for our Pennington, New Jersey office, working directly alongside our CEO, and a secondary preference for our Lincoln, Nebraska headquarters. We are also open to exceptional candidates remotely in the U.S. or from our Omaha, Nebraska office.

At this time, we're not considering applicants who need immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization), now or in the future, to work in the United States.