Chief of Staff

Chief of Staff

Mob Entertainment is a startup multimedia studio that is best known for our hit indie horror game "Poppy Playtime". This franchise is one of the hottest new properties in gaming, and our team is naturally expanding as our ambition expands. To give a taste of our brand's popularity, more than 100 billion YouTube views of Poppy Playtime related content have occurred since the game's launch 4 years ago.

Role Overview

The Chief of Staff is a trusted partner to the CEO and studio leadership, responsible for turning priorities into action and ensuring the studio operates smoothly day to day. This role blends strategic execution, operational leadership, and hands-on coordination. You will lead high-impact initiatives, improve cross-team processes, and directly support leadership through planning, facilitation, and meeting ownership. You will serve as the connective tissue across Production, Creative, and Business functions, removing friction, driving clarity, and keeping the organization aligned.

This role is distinct from the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), who is focused on driving overall business growth, revenue generation, strategic partnerships, and corporate development. It is also distinct from the Chief Creative Officer (CCO), whose primary focus is on creative vision, team leadership, and quality control. The Chief of Staff's focus is on internal operational efficiency and execution to enable the CEO, CCO, and other executives to succeed in their core functional domains. This position will be a hybrid role based out of Los Angeles, CA.

What You'll Do

Leadership & Executive Support

• Own the leadership operating rhythm, including scheduling and facilitating weekly leadership meetings, creative reviews, and planning sessions.
• Organize and facilitate leadership offsites and strategic planning sessions, driving alignment, decision-making, and follow-through.
• Set agendas, capture decisions, track action items, and ensure follow-through.
• Prepare briefs, reports, and presentations for leadership and board meetings.
• Act as a day-to-day thought partner to the CEO on priorities, trade-offs, and studio health. This includes providing market insights to the CEO that inform strategy, complementing the deeper industry intelligence provided by the CEO.

Strategy & Execution

• Translate studio goals into quarterly and annual plans (OKRs, roadmaps, milestones).
• Track progress across teams and surface risks early.
• Lead high-priority cross-functional initiatives and special projects that require coordination across Business, Creative, and Production.
• Ensure accountability and momentum on key decisions, acting as an execution multiplier for the leadership team.

Studio Operations & Production Support

• Improve workflows and processes across Design, Engineering, Art, and Production.
• Partner with producers to identify bottlenecks and streamline collaboration.
• Support resource planning and capacity visibility.
• Establish scalable systems for communication, documentation, and reporting.

Cross-Functional Alignment

• Serve as a central point of coordination between Creative, Production, and Business teams. This facilitates the CCO's ability to align creative direction with the overall business strategy.
• Facilitate alignment on priorities, dependencies, and timelines.
• Help resolve conflicts and unblock teams.
• Strengthen transparency and information flow across the studio.

Culture & Communication

• Support internal communications and company updates.
• Help maintain a healthy, accountable, and low-ego team culture.
• Reinforce operational discipline while protecting creative autonomy.

What We're Looking For

Experience

• 4–7+ years in operations, production, program management, consulting, or startup leadership roles.
• CoS Experience supporting executive planning processes, including leadership offsites, annual planning, OKRs, and cross-functional strategy sessions.
• Experience in a game studio or creative production environment preferred.
• Experience directly supporting executives or leadership teams.
• Proven ability to both plan strategically and execute tactically.

Skills

• Exceptional organization and meeting facilitation skills.
• Strong project and program management.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Ability to influence without authority.
• Comfortable juggling multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
• Systems thinker with attention to detail.

Traits

• Proactive, self-directed, and highly reliable.
• Comfortable owning both "big picture" work and hands-on coordination.
• Low ego, team-first mindset.
• Calm under pressure and trusted with confidential information.
• Passion for games and creative teams.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Final compensation within the applicable salary range will be determined based on factors such as the applicant's experience, qualifications, and work location.

Los Angeles, CA Metropolitan Area: $130,000 - $160,000 USD annually

Mob Entertainment offers the following benefits to all eligible U.S.-based full-time employees: profit sharing; medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) matching; FSA/HSA; paid time off; sick time; holidays; and parental leave.

Mob Entertainment is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and complies with all federal, state, and local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age, disability, military service, or any other protected class under applicable state or local law. Mob Entertainment also considers all qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with Fair Chance laws as well as any other applicable state and local laws.