Chief of Staff, North America

$Chris Berry, Managing Director, North America

Compensation: CAD $120,000 to $180,000 base, plus equity, depending on experience

Zen’s mission is to fully staff classrooms, so all children can thrive and educators avoid burnout. That kind of growth creates hard, complex, urgent problems across the business. We’re now looking for a Chief of Staff, North America to work closely with our leadership team as we scale.

This is a role for someone energized by these challenges. The right person will be able to operate at both altitude and ground level, shaping strategy, doing sharp analysis, and getting deep into frontline processes when that is what the business needs.

Too many teachers are leaving the profession, not enough are coming in, and school leaders are being forced to manage daily staffing gaps with limited budgets and limited visibility.

We’re building a better way for schools to find, vet, and manage temporary educators. Our platform gives school leaders more control, more transparency, and better access to great educators, while helping reduce wasted spend in education.

We’re venture backed, well funded, and building toward a national rollout across North America.

It reflects the company we are trying to build: one that grows quickly, performs exceptionally, and stays deeply accountable to schools, educators, children, and the communities we serve.

You’ll work directly with the North American leadership team, owning the operating cadence, driving key cross-functional projects,



and jumping on problems that do not yet have a clear owner.

You’ll report to Chris Berry, Managing Director, North America, who made a similar move from consulting into startup revenue and operations. That means you’ll get close coaching from someone who understands the transition and will push you to grow quickly.

Driving projects across Growth, Operations, Customer Success, Finance, and People

Supporting recent market launches and commercial rollout plans

Building the operating cadence, dashboards, and decision-making systems we need to scale

Jumping into urgent business problems when there is no obvious owner yet

We’re looking for someone with a demonstrated record of exceptional performance.

You do not need to have been a Chief of Staff before, but you do need to have shown that you can take on hard problems, create clarity and momentum, and drive real outcomes.

Ability to influence senior stakeholders

No one at Zen is above the work, and that is especially true for the Chief of Staff.

It is a role for someone who wants to be trusted with some of the most important problems in the business and help solve them.

You’ll work across the organization and be well positioned to move into a senior role over time. That could be in operations, strategy, commercial, general management, or something else entirely.

CAD $120,000 to $180,000 base, depending on experience, plus equity.

Equity compensation

18 Paid Vacation Days and 11 Paid Company Holidays

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance

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