Strategic Initiatives Associate

Overview

Pathstone is seeking a Strategic Initiatives Associate to partner directly with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). This role is not a traditional administrative one—it is a force-multiplier position designed to elevate the CMO’s effectiveness by creating space for high-impact strategic work and ensuring alignment, clarity, and momentum across key initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Executive Enablement & Prioritization: Create and protect space for the CMO to focus on strategic priorities, triage and manage communications, and prioritize initiatives, requests, and opportunities.

• Initiative Management & Alignment: Drive preparation, alignment, and follow-through across key initiatives, translate ideas into structured plans, timelines, and actions, and coordinate across teams to ensure progress and accountability.

• Meeting & Decision Support: Prepare agendas, briefing materials, and pre-reads for critical meetings, capture decisions, insights, and next steps, and ensure follow-through.

• Information Flow & Systems: Build systems to organize priorities, surface key insights, and reduce noise, synthesize information across conversations and workstreams into clear actions, and maintain visibility into interdependencies across projects.

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years in a Executive Assistant, Chief of Staff, or strategy, consulting, or similar role

• Experience supporting senior executives in fast-paced environments

• Exceptional organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills

• Strong judgment, discretion, and ability to operate independently

• Systems thinker who brings structure to complexity

Pay Transparency

Pathstone’s expected starting base compensation range for the position as of the time of this posting is $75,000 - $90,000 per year. The actual base compensation selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including (but not limited to) experience, education, specialty and training. The successful candidate(s) may also be eligible for a discretionary bonus award.