A Day in the Life of a Chief of Staff at Mesh
Caldwell, Mesh's Chief of Staff, spends "60 to 70% of [their] day" on operational tasks such as "writing product documentation" and daily standups with engineering teams. The remaining time is dedicated to strategic initiatives, including "guiding some of the Strategic conversations" and external communications.
Project Management, Executive/Leadership, Communication, Strategy, Teamwork
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Caldwell Clarke
Chief of Staff
Mesh
University of Maryland
UCLA Anderson School of Management - MBA
Engineering - Mechanical
Gaming, Technology
Product / Service / Software Development and Management
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Video Highlights
1. A Chief of Staff spends a significant portion of their day (60-70%) on direct project and team management, which includes tasks such as writing documentation, managing Jira, conducting daily standups, and assigning sprint tasks.
2. Another considerable part of the role (30%) involves strategic work, including researching, creating communications for internal and external audiences, and participating in strategic discussions about company direction, target markets, and fundraising.
3. This highlights the blend of operational execution and strategic planning that defines the role, showcasing its dynamic and multifaceted nature.
Transcript
What does the day in the life of a chief of staff look like?
You're spending more of your time operating, working on the projects you're responsible for and the teams you're responsible for. So yeah, I'd say 60 to 70% of my day.
For context, I was responsible for the product and engineering organizations at Mesh, in large part for the day-to-day operations. It's been 60 to 70% of my day managing execution there.
In that sense, it was writing product documentation, converting it into Jira, checking it with the engineers. I do a daily standup with them, and then weekly assigning out to define experience and assigning sprint tasks.
The other 30% was more on the strategy side, helping the executives. That's both research and communication stuff, writing up communication for them and for external. And then guiding some of the strategic conversations around who do we want to go after, what we want to build, how do we want to think about raising money, things like that.
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