--- title: 'Chief of Staff at LaunchDarkly' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/chief-of-staff-launchdarkly-oakland-ygs5bgv2ah45' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-06' --- # Chief of Staff at LaunchDarkly - **Company:** LaunchDarkly - **Location:** Oakland, CA - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-11-02 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly/jobs/8166241003 ## Job description About the Job: LaunchDarkly is hiring a Chief of Staff to report to the CEO and partner with the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) as the company continues to scale. This is a senior, individual contributor role for a strategic operator and trusted advisor who thrives at the intersection of strategy, execution, communication, and data. As Chief of Staff, you’ll help translate company strategy into action, shape executive-level planning and decision-making, and ensure leadership discussions are grounded in clear insights and high-quality materials. You’ll operate with significant autonomy, exercise wide latitude in how work gets done, and act as a thought partner to senior leaders across the organization. This role is ideal for someone with deep experience navigating complex, cross-functional environments and a strong executive presence who is excited to have broad influence without people management responsibilities. Responsibilities: Strategic Leadership & Cross-Functional Execution - Partner with the CEO to drive company-wide strategic initiatives from conception through execution. Help align the Executive Leadership Team and broader organization around priorities, tradeoffs, and outcomes. Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and gaps across critical initiatives and surface insights to leadership. Act as connective tissue across executives and teams to ensure strategy translates into coordinated action. Operating Cadence & Company Planning - Shape and support LaunchDarkly’s operating rhythm, including owning OKRs and leadership planning processes. - Design and evolve planning frameworks that enable effective executive decision-making. - Support annual and long-range planning cycles, synthesizing inputs and highlighting strategic implications. Executive & Company Communications - Lead the preparation and refinement of executive-level materials, including Board meeting materials and ELT presentations.  Ensure executive content is clear, concise, decision-oriented, and aligned with company strategy. Data, Insights & Analysis - Partner on executive dashboards and reporting, ensuring metrics are accurate, consistent, and actionable. - Analyze and understand data to inform strategic decisions and evaluate proposed initiatives. - Translate analysis into clear recommendations for senior leadership audiences. Executive Meetings & Offsites - Design agendas and content for executive meetings and off-sites with a focus on alignment and outcomes. - Capture key decisions, clarify next steps, and support follow-through across the organization. Qualifications: - Typically requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience, preferably in senior-level roles involving strategy, operations, consulting, finance, product operations, or executive advisory work. - Demonstrated success partnering closely with executive leaders and influencing at the highest levels of an organization. - Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complexity into clear, compelling narratives. - Strong analytical capabilities and comfort working with SaaS metrics and executive-level data. - Ability to manage multiple, high-impact workstreams with sound judgment and prioritization. - High degree of discretion, integrity, and emotional intelligence. Pay: Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 6: - Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $240,600 - $330,700** - Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $216,500 - $297,600** - Zone 3: All other US locations - $204,500 - 281,100** - All Zones Inclusive of 10% Bonus Target LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. *Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas. **Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary. About LaunchDarkly: Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations. The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by: - Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages - Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts - Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize - Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types - Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan. To do so, contact People Ops at hr@launchdarkly.com. Do you need a disability accommodation? Fill out this [accommodations request form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYb_7upYMtdRVXzvXGHGfQw0pU2FNma-6Rwp-I6NjKm7SYNw/viewform) and someone from our People Operations team will contact you for assistance. Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, LaunchDarkly recruiters will only contact you from [@LaunchDarkly](https://launchdarkly.slack.com/team/UKEE4GBS6).com email addresses or via LinkedIn from "Verified Recruiter" accounts. Be cautious of emails from other domains.  Legitimate LaunchDarkly recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before making a job offer. LaunchDarkly will never make a job offer without conducting a formal interview process. Our interview process does not involve asking detailed questions by email. If you are ever unsure about a communication that you receive, don't click any links—visit [Careers | LaunchDarkly](https://launchdarkly.com/careers/)  directly for confirmed job openings and links to apply. Please notify us of any fraudulent representation by sending an email to careers@launchdarkly.com. ## About LaunchDarkly ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: LaunchDarkly provides a runtime control layer for AI-era software development, enabling teams to release features safely, experiment in production, and govern AI agents. - **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed, Series D+) with investors including Redpoint, Threshold Ventures, and Benchmark. - **Headquarters**: Oakland, California, USA (with additional offices in London, UK; Bangalore and Mumbai, India) - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Edith Harbaugh (CEO/Executive Chair) and John Kodumal (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Feature management / software tooling / developer infrastructure - **Target customers**: B2B, serving both large enterprises (25% of Fortune 500) and small startups; teams in engineering, product, marketing, and business operations. - **Mission or purpose**: “Making software releases boring since 2014” and “creating a world in which every AI-powered release is safe and unceremonious.” ## Products & Services - **Feature Flags (CodeControl)**: Wrap new or risky code in flags to enable progressive rollouts, automated rollbacks, and instant remediation — without redeploying. - **Experimentation (A/B/n testing, multi-armed bandits)**: Run online experiments on code and agents to optimize performance based on real-world results. - **Observability (Guardian Monitoring, Error Monitoring, Logs & Traces, Session Replay)**: Monitor feature behavior and auto-remediate issues. - **AgentControl**: Govern, observe, and steer AI agents in production — including adaptive triggers, progressive rollouts, agent observability, custom judges, and LLM playground. - **AI Insights & Prompt Management**: Test prompts/models in production, dynamically route traffic to best options, and manage prompt snippets. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (last reported Series D in 2021 was at a ~$3 billion valuation per industry sources; not confirmed in provided materials) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – not disclosed in provided sources. Annual Revenue – not publicly available. Proxy: 5,500+ customers, 45 trillion feature flags evaluated daily. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Board members include Scott Raney (Redpoint), Josh Stein (Threshold Ventures), and Jonathan Heiliger (Benchmark); listed on Forbes Cloud 100 for six consecutive years. - **Growth Signals**: >570 employees and growing; 25% of Fortune 500 are customers; expansion into AI agent control (AgentControl product); remote-first hiring globally. ## Competitive Advantages - **#1 in Feature Management** for three years running (as claimed on website). - **Massive scale**: 45 trillion feature flags evaluated daily, providing unmatched performance and reliability. - **Integrated platform** combining feature flags, experimentation, observability, and AI agent governance in one runtime control layer — reducing tool sprawl. - **Strong brand trust** among 5,500+ customers, including many Fortune 500 enterprises. ## Strategic Focus - **Lead the AI transformation**: Apply runtime control principles to AI agents and LLM-powered features (AgentControl, LLM Playground, custom judges). - **Enable self-healing systems**: Automatically detect and remediate failing code or misbehaving agents without human intervention. - **Continue expanding experimentation** and observability capabilities to help teams continuously optimize. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind” – as stated on the careers page. Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. - **Remote/hybrid policy**: Many engineering roles are fully remote (US, India, other locations). Some roles like IT are hybrid in Oakland or Bangalore/Mumbai. - **Work environment**: High-growth (570+ employees) with significant investment in engineering (multiple engineering teams: Core, Measure, Release, AI, etc.). - **Notable perks**: Pay transparency policy (disclosure of compensation upon request), commitment to diversity, and formal accommodation process. The company is a federal contractor, so it adheres to strict non-discrimination and pay disclosure rules. - **Engineering focus**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge problems in feature management, experimentation, and AI governance at massive scale. ## Sources 1. [LaunchDarkly Website](https://launchdarkly.com/) – Main product description, company overview, stats 2. [LaunchDarkly About Us](https://launchdarkly.com/about-us/) – Founding story, leadership team, investors, office locations 3. [LaunchDarkly Careers](https://launchdarkly.com/careers/) – Culture, equal opportunity statement, pay transparency policy 4. [Greenhouse Job Board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly/jobs/7738584003) – Open positions, remote/hybrid details, team structure 5. 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