Chief of Staff

Job Description

Job Description

The Opportunity

Parallax Innovations (shorthand 'Parallax') is building something that doesn't exist yet: a modern communications engine that treats persuasion like infrastructure. We are a high-velocity content operation backed by committed investors, leading advocacy organizations, and a passionate team that has run some of the largest political media operations in history. We produce content at campaign scale—hundreds of videos, millions of impressions, rapid-response storytelling across every platform. Our focus is strengthening American democracy through election reform.

We are focused on solving the Primary Problem: Closed party primaries disenfranchise millions of voters and disincentivizes our leaders from solving problems. Open, all-candidate primaries increase participation, improve representation, and dampen polarization. We are here to win open primaries on the state level in order to enfranchise millions of voters and liberate dozens of members of Congress.`

We need a Chief of Staff to act as the connective tissue of the entire operation, turning the President’s vision into executed reality across creative, distribution, analytics, and partnerships. You'll be the person who makes sure nothing falls through the cracks in a system that moves at the speed of culture.

Denver, CO highly preferred, with relocation support offered. Exceptional remote candidates may be considered.

About the Role

This is an operating role with real ownership and visibility. You’ll sit at the center of the organization and help ensure that priorities turn into outcomes. You will:

• Turn strategy into action . Take high-level narrative strategy and break it into executable plans with clear owners, deadlines, and OKRs.
• Keep operations moving . Own the cadence and coordination behind a communications engine producing 15+ pieces of content per week across video, social, paid media, and long-form. You keep the trains running so that the creative team can stay in flow.
• Extend leadership capacity. Step into key conversations, prepare materials, and anticipate challenges before they slow progress. Flag the problem before it becomes a fire. You have the judgment to represent leadership without needing a script.
• Connect teams. Creative, analytics, partnerships, political strategy—you sit at the intersection and make sure these teams aren't operating in silos. When something's stuck, you unstick it.
• Build systems that scale. Design workflows, reporting structures, and decision-making processes so the team can move quickly without losing clarity.

Requirements

Who You Are

You've spent 5–10 years in high-performance environments—tech, media, campaigns, startups—and are ready to apply your skills to work with broader societal impact. You're the person everyone relies on to bring order to chaos – and you now want your skills to be applied to something with stakes beyond the usual growth KPIs.

• You've operated at scale. You know what it's like to ship fast in a team of 20+ across multiple workstreams that build for millions of users. You've managed timelines, budgets, and people.
• You're politically literate. You understand the media landscape, the news cycle, and the role narrative plays in democracy.
• You write like a strategist. Decks, memos, briefs—you can synthesize complex information into something a CEO or a board member would read and act on.
• You're a systems thinker. You understand how organizations function and look for ways to improve efficiency and collaboration proactively.
• You exercise sound judgment. You know when to escalate, when to decide, and how to balance speed with thoughtfulness. People trust your instincts.
• You're adaptable. You’re comfortable contributing across a range of tasks and stepping in where needed to support the team.

Benefits

Why You Should Take This Role

• Impact you can feel. Your work will directly shape how millions of Americans understand election reform, a critical level to improving and strengthening our democracy. That deck you made? It unlocked $10M in new funding. That content sprint? It reached 200 million people, and flipped the next ballot initiative from a loss to a win.
• Real Access. You’ll work closely with leadership and engage with key stakeholders across politics and media.
• A strong team. You’ll collaborate with thoughtful, driven colleagues who care about doing meaningful work well.
• Build something lasting. You won’t just run systems—you’ll help define them. The playbook you write will define how this organization operates for the next decade.

Our democracy will not fix itself. But with you working alongside our team, we have a fighting chance.

Compensation & Benefits

Parallax offers competitive compensation:

• Base salary of $150K+ depending on experience.
• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• 401k plan
• Flexible Time Off policy: ample vacation, sick days, holidays, and wellness days
• Generous family leave policy
• Stipends for professional development and wellness

Parallax is an equal opportunity employer.