Chief of Staff to the COO

The Role
CFGI is a PE-backed professional services firm with 30+ offices, strong year-over-year growth, and an expanding international footprint. The firm is in an active phase of building the infrastructure, people systems, and operating discipline needed to scale without sacrificing quality or culture.
This role will report directly to CFGI’s Chief Operating Officer, a former McKinsey Partner.
This role sits at the center of that buildout. The Chief of Staff / VP Operations is the COO’s most senior operational partner, responsible for driving the firmwide initiative portfolio, organizing and advancing large cross-functional programs, and ensuring that the Office of the COO functions at the highest level of execution.
It is a leadership and coordination hybrid role that requires judgment, executive presence, and the ability to drive outcomes across a complex, Partner-led organization. It also sits at the forefront of how CFGI is building an AI-enabled firm; this role is the COO’s operational arm for how AI gets adopted, governed, and scaled across the business.
What You Will Own
Portfolio Execution
Lead large, complex initiatives that span the enterprise and require senior engagement, including people architecture redesign (Partnership model, incentives, performance management), office operating model buildout, and AI governance and implementation.
Drive accountability across initiative owners and Partners without direct line authority, triaging risks, blockers, and decisions that require COO attention or delegation, and influencing Partners and senior leaders to keep work moving.
Serve as the COO’s proxy in working sessions, executive meetings, and cross-functional forums. Represent COO positions with clarity and confidence.
Structure problems, build the analytical backbone for decisions, and develop the materials needed to take recommendations to the co-CEOs and Board.
Close decisions independently within defined scope; escalate appropriately with a clear reco...