Cyberhaven is looking for a Chief of Staff for Engineering to collaborate and perform as an operating partner and force multiplier for engineering leadership, driving operating cadence, cross-organizational execution, and data-driven decision making across the entire engineering org. This role is accountable for turning strategic priorities into clear execution plans, and for giving leadership the visibility, metrics, and follow-through they need to run engineering like a well-oiled machine.

This is a hybrid role that blends program management, project management, and executive operations: the person in this role will sit close to engineering leadership, represent their priorities across the org, and be the connective tissue between strategy and day-to-day execution. Influence and impact come from judgment, trust, and cross-functional credibility rather than direct authority.

This role also serves as the primary architect of engineering leadership's monthly and quarterly business reviews, all-hands content, org planning, and leadership offsites providing decision support, surfacing risk, and driving follow-through on the company's highest-priority engineering initiatives.

This role goes well beyond traditional chief of staff work. It requires strong executive presence to represent leadership credibly in front of the org and external stakeholders, deep comfort with data and metrics to turn fragmented signals into clear decision support, and an AI-forward mindset to automate the reporting and operating mechanisms that let Cyberhaven scale how it plans, tracks, communicates, and reviews its work.

What you'll do

Strategic Partnership and Executive Support

Act as a trusted advisor and thought partner to engineering leadership, helping translate strategic priorities into clear execution plans, success criteria, and operating mechanisms across the org

Own the engineering leadership operating cadence, including staff meetings, monthly and quarterly business reviews, org planning, and leadership offsites, setting agendas, preparing materials, and driving follow-through on decisions and action items

Represent engineering leadership's priorities across the organization, ensuring alignment between engineering, product, and go-to-market teams on key initiatives

Prepare executive-facing communications, board and all-hands content, and cross-functional updates on behalf of engineering leadership

Act as a sounding board and extension of leadership on sensitive or ambiguous organizational topics, including headcount planning, org design, and prioritization tradeoffs

Build trust and credibility across engineering, product, and business stakeholders to effectively drive alignment without formal authority

Program and Project Management

Own end-to-end planning, execution, and coordination across complex, multi-team programs and time-sensitive strategic projects for engineering leadership

Improve predictability in Cyberhaven's release and planning model by tracking scope changes, readiness risks, and cross-team dependencies

Build and maintain review cadences, status updates, and action follow-up systems that surface execution risk and areas needing intervention across teams and programs

Support high-priority or ambiguous engineering initiatives that need additional structure, executive visibility, and follow-through, often stepping in where no clear owner exists

Improve data hygiene and governance in systems like Jira and related planning artifacts so that ownership, status, and progress signals are reliable

Data and Metrics-Driven Operations

Define and standardize success metrics across quality, release health, velocity, and team health to drive greater predictability and accountability

Turn operational signals from across the org into clear, data-backed reporting and decision support for engineering leadership

Own the metrics and narrative behind monthly and quarterly business reviews, ensuring leadership has accurate, timely, and actionable data

Bring a data-driven lens to org health, from delivery metrics to team sentiment, to help leadership spot risk early