Associate Chief of Staff at Zus in Portland, OR

Job description

Who we are Zus Health is an AI-native healthcare data platform that brings fragmented patient information together to make it complete, current, and actionable. Through our nationwide data network, platform, and intelligent workflows, we help providers, value-based care organizations, payers, life sciences, and digital health companies drive business results, strengthen provider trust, and improve operational efficiency. Founded in 2021 by Jonathan Bush, co-founder and former CEO of athenahealth, Zus is building the foundation for a more connected, precise, and effective healthcare system. What we’re looking for We’re looking for a highly organized, intellectually curious, and ambitious Associate Chief of Staff to work directly with our CEO, Jonathan Bush, and help our Senior Leadership Team operate at its best. This is a unique opportunity for someone earlier in their career who wants a front-row seat to building and scaling a healthcare technology company. You’ll work alongside our CEO and executive team to help maintain focus, make decisions, communicate clearly, and ensure the organization follows through on its most important priorities. You are passionate about healthcare and want to see technology transform the outcomes, cost, and experience of care. You’re hungry to make a difference in a fluid, fast-moving startup and are equally comfortable working through a business strategy, digging into a complicated data set, preparing a nuanced meeting agenda, or capturing the details and action items that keep a leadership team moving. This role reports directly to our CEO and will be based in Portland, Maine, where Jonathan is located. You should also expect to travel regularly with Jonathan and other members of the leadership team. What you’ll do • Focus our Senior Leadership Team on the most important issues by organizing and managing SLT meetings, developing agendas, taking clear and comprehensive notes, documenting decisions and action items, and ensuring consistent follow-through across leaders. • Support our CEO, Jonathan Bush, by helping prioritize his focus and providing leverage across the day-to-day. You’ll anticipate needs, keep important priorities moving, prepare him for meetings, and jump into whatever will help him and Zus be more effective. • Drive follow-through across the organization by translating leadership discussions into clear owners, next steps, and timelines and proactively ensuring commitments don’t fall through the cracks. • Ensure clear communication with our Board, investors, leadership team, customers, and broader market by developing crisp, thoughtful, and compelling presentations, memos, analyses, and other materials. • Turn information into insight by digging into business data, synthesizing complex topics, conducting research, and helping our leadership team get to the information needed to make better and faster decisions. • Take on special projects alongside our CEO and leadership team. What you demonstrate • Strong business skills that allow you to craft presentations, build content, manage processes, conduct analyses, and quickly get up to speed on unfamiliar problems. • Experience as an Analyst or Associate in consulting, banking, PE/VC, strategy, business operations, or a similar environment is a strong plus. This is a perfect opportunity for someone to get hands-on experience should you desire to go to business school • Exceptional organization and attention to detail. You can manage a nuanced leadership agenda, capture the substance of a fast-moving conversation, identify decisions and next steps, and reliably make sure people follow through. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You can synthesize a complicated discussion into a clear set of takeaways and create polished materials for executives, Board members, investors, customers, and employees. • Sound judgment and discretion. You’ll have visibility into sensitive company, employee, customer, and strategic informati