Chief of Staff to the CEO

About the role

Rare Candy is revolutionizing the $25 billion trading-card industry as the only community marketplace 100% dedicated to TCGs. This role is critical for the CEO, focusing on strategic and operational work across the company.

Responsibilities

• Take fully formed priorities off the CEO's plate and run them to completion: stand up new initiatives from zero, drive major projects across the line, own big partnerships, and prepare for the moments that matter most, like board meetings and investor communications.
• Own assigned CEO priorities end-to-end and make the in-flight calls. Provide sharp recommendations, and the CEO makes the final call.
• Take ambiguous, half-formed problems and drive them to a clean, complete outcome, not a status update.
• Install operating cadence: tighten the leadership meeting, the planning rhythm, and the follow-through, so the company stays aligned. Just enough process to move fast and reliably, never bureaucracy on a small team.
• Own big partnerships: carry significant external relationships and represent the company and the CEO credibly to partners and stakeholders.
• Prep the moments that matter: build board decks, investor updates, and the structured analysis behind the CEO's biggest decisions. Produce executive-quality thinking and materials.
• Handle the sensitive stuff: you'll be close to the raise, the board, and the numbers. Discretion and judgment are the job.

Requirements

• Bring top-tier management consulting, or an equivalent analytical and strategic background, and real operating experience at a high-growth startup.
• Great at extending a founder rather than replacing one.
• Work in the CEO's orbit, which means priorities shift, context switches are constant, and a lot of your value comes from owning things while they're still ambiguous.

Qualifications

• Understand the trading-card or collector world. Collect, play, or have real fluency in an adjacent collectible community.

Skills

• Finisher mindset
• Executive-level thinking and materials production
• Lightweight operating discipline
• Decision-making under ambiguity

Benefits

Full benefits: health, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), and a wellness stipend.

Pay

Competitive startup comp and meaningful equity upside.

Schedule

Full-time.