Chief of Staff, Founder & Executive Chairman's Office

Overview:

AccuWeather is seeking a highly experienced Chief of Staff to support its Founder and Executive Chairman. This role is designed for someone who can serve as a strategic and operational extension of a highly engaged Founder with evolving priorities while helping oversee the effectiveness, coordination, and execution flow of the Executive Office.
This individual will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations and coordination of the Founder's Office, ensuring alignment of priorities, and driving execution across internal and external stakeholders. This is not a traditional administrative role, but rather a leadership position focused on ownership, coordination, and influence.
This role is primarily remote, with expected monthly travel to the State College, PA office for approximately 2-3 days at a time to support executive collaboration, leadership meetings, relationship-building, and ongoing operational alignment.

Key Responsibilities:

Executive Partnership:
- Act as a strategic right hand to the Founder, anticipate needs and proactively ensure priorities are clearly defined and executed
- Serve as a liaison between the Founder and executive leadership
Office Leadership & EA Coordination:
- Provide leadership and structure across the Executive Assistant team
- Establish workflows, communication standards, and accountability
- Ensure cohesion across the office, especially when priorities shift

Strategic Oversight of Calendar & Time:
- Provide strategic oversight of the Founder's time and calendar to ensure alignment with the organization's highest-impact priorities and business objectives.

- Partner with administrative support staff to execute scheduling and logistics
Travel & Meeting Optimization:
- Ensure travel is aligned with business objectives and optimized for impact
- Oversee meeting effectiveness by ensuring proper preparation, agenda clarity, and outcomes
Execution & Operations:
- Translate executive ideas into actionable plans and ensure follow-through.

- Track executive priorities, communications, and key initiatives to help ensure projects continue progressing effectively, the appropriate stakeholders remain aligned, and organizational efforts stay focused on the highest-impact objectives.
- Simplify complex operational discussions and evolving ideas into organized action plans, clear ownership, and executable next steps
Executive Communication:
- Draft and manage high-level correspondence on behalf of the Founder

• Attend and help coordinate recurring meetings with the CEO and executive leadership team, along with committee and action-oriented meetings across marketing, sales, and product development efforts
• Administrative Excellence (High-Level):
  - Prepare executive materials, briefings, and summaries

- Handle highly confidential and sensitive business and personal information with professionalism, discretion, sound judgment, and reliability

Qualifications

- 7+ years supporting C-suite executives within founder-led, private company, high-growth, or fast-paced environments, including experience supporting highly engaged Founder and/or CEO leadership structures

- Experience in a Lead or Senior Executive Assistant, Chief of Staff, Executive Business Partner, or hybrid executive operations role supporting senior leadership
- Experience managing or coordinating other Executive Assistants
- Strong emotional intelligence and executive presence
- Exceptional organizational and prioritization skills
- Ability to operate independently and influence cross-functionally
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Prior experience working remotely while supporting executive leadership

About AccuWeather

AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the mostaccurateand most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world,has saved over 12,000 lives, prevented injury to over100,000 people, and savedcompaniestens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making.

Billions of people around the world rely on AccuWeather's proven Superior Accuracy across our consumer digital platforms.AccuWeather.comis the #1 weather destination and one of the top 100most-visitedwebsites in the world, and our award-winning AccuWeather app delivers detailed real-time forecasts to millions of smartphones.

AccuWeather forecasts also appear on digital signage, in 700 newspapers, are heard on over 400 radio stations, and viewed on 100 television stations. The AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW reach an audience of over 125 million on cable and streaming platforms including DirecTV, CharterCommunications - Spectrum, Verizon, Philo,FrndlyTV, Comcast's Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream, Roku,Xumo,Rockbot, LG, and Amazon Freevee.

AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally.

Dr. Joel Myers, Founder and ExecutiveChairman, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the "father of modern commercial meteorology." Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been called "the most accurate man in weather" by The New York Times and has been recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur's Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you needa reasonableaccommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail tohuman.resources@accuweather.comand let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.