Chief of Staff / Executive Operations Director
Location: State College, PA (On-site)
Department: Executive Office
Reports To: Founder & Executive Chair
A Rare Opportunity
This is a unique opportunity to become the trusted Chief of Staff / Executive Operations Director to an internationally recognized Founder, entrepreneur, and Executive Chair of a highly successful technology and media company.
This is far more than a traditional Chief of Staff position. You will serve as a strategic partner operating at the center of executive decision-making, ensuring the Founder & Executive Chair is able to focus on the highest-value opportunities while you orchestrate the people, priorities, communications, and operations that keep everything moving forward.
The successful candidate will thrive in a high-performance, fast-paced environment where every day is different, priorities evolve quickly, and exceptional judgment, discretion, and initiative are expected.
If you’re energized by complexity, enjoy solving problems before they become problems, and want to work alongside one of America’s most accomplished entrepreneurs, we’d love to meet you.
About the Role
AccuWeather is seeking a Chief of Staff / Executive Operations Director for Founder & Executive Chair Dr. Joel N. Myers.
This is an intense, in-person, demanding, proactive, and transformational executive role — not a conventional administrative or support position — built to multiply the impact of an active Founder & Executive Chair of a well-known high-technology and media company.
The role reports solely to Dr. Myers and is accountable to him, while operating with full respect for and support of the CEO’s authority to run the company.
You will be working directly with one of the top entrepreneurs in American history, converting his strategic, commercial, marketing, product, and customer insight into focused initiatives and measurable results.
Role
• Manage complex, high-volume Executive calendar
• Manage Executive correspondence and ensure Executive’s time aligns with priorities
• Assist with meeting preparation including briefings, meeting materials, agenda creation, daily reports, and follow-up actions
• Proactively keep our CRM current. capture and maintain up-to-date data on key contacts
• Coordinate domestic and international travel and other calendar activities
• Lead and develop the executive support team, raising standards, ownership, and continuity
• Own day-to-day administrative and office operations and project support
• Assist with strategic projects, initiatives and deliverables on behalf of the Executive Chair, ensuring they are executed effectively and according to schedule
• Capture, organize, and convert the Executive Chair’s strategic, commercial, marketing, product, and customer insights into prioritized initiatives with clear ownership and follow-through
• Help connect sales, marketing, product, technology, and customer strategy efforts to strengthen commercialization, pricing, and revenue growth
• Draft and edit communications on behalf of the Executive Chair, including emails, and presentations, speeches and transcriptions
• Coordinate with home and personal staff
• Maintain the highest level of confidentiality and discretion in handling sensitive information and matters building trust with Executive Chair, Executive leadership, Board members and key stakeholders
• Use AI & technology to gain leverage, improve office operations and efficiency and build and lead an AI-enabled operating system for meeting preparation, knowledge capture, project tracking, correspondence, decisions, and follow-up
Qualifications
• 10+ years’ experience and success as a Chief of Staff, Executive Operations leader, or senior general-management role in a founder-led, growth-oriented, or commercially demanding environment • Extremely organized and with exceptional time management and attention to detail
• You’re professional and operate with a high degree of discretion and integrity
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build relationships internationally and externally
• Comfortable with AI/technology and can quickly adopt tools like Claude, Chat GPT, google suite, slack, zapier, and more
• Comfortable with ambiguity and is curious about tech and eager to learn
• People you have worked with put you in the top 1% of people they have worked with
• Executive presence and sound judgment, with the confidence to engage directly with a highly experienced founder
• Commercial fluency and the ability to connect strategy, sales, marketing, product, and technology
• Track record of leading or upgrading teams and converting ideas into measurable outcomes
• Genuinely interested in building a long-term relationship with the Founder, not using the role as a short-term step
• Comfortable being in the office each day
You Shouldn’t Apply If
• You need a highly predictable and comfortable work schedule
• Want to work from home
• Want only a 9-5 job
Compensation & Benefits
• Comprehensive healthcare and dental benefits.
• 401(k) retirement plan with 50% company match
• Annual performance bonus tied to clearly defined outcomes
• Meaningful relocation assistance and, where appropriate, temporary housing or transition support
• Potential long-term retention or incentive arrangement for an exceptional candidate
• A collaborative work environment and opportunity to work with a high-impact team and Mission driven company that has saved over 12,000 lives
If This Sounds Like You…
If you’re the type of professional who thrives on solving complex problems, anticipates needs before they’re expressed, operates with absolute integrity, and wants to make a meaningful impact while partnering directly with a visionary Founder & Executive Chair, we encourage you to apply.
We’re looking for someone who doesn’t simply support an executive—we’re looking for someone who elevates one.