The posting
Chief of Staff, Digital & Product
About Re:Build Manufacturing
At Re:Build, our mission is to ensure the next generation of important products are made, at scale, in America. We are laying the foundation for a better future for our customers, employees, and communities by revitalizing America's manufacturing base and creating meaningful jobs across the country, including in historically deindustrialized regions.
We operate an advanced, end-to-end manufacturing platform that partners with industrial companies and innovators to take products from first concept to full-scale production in critical verticals including aerospace and defense, electrification, medical, energy and environment, and robotics and automation.
The way we operate is as important as the work we do. It's guided by The Re:Build Way, 16 principles that shape how we collaborate with each other, partner with our customers and vendors, and contribute to the communities where we operate. (link to The Re:Build Way principles)
Key Responsibilities
Executive Leverage & Strategic Leadership
- Serve as a trusted thought partner and extension of the Chief Digital and Product Officer.
- Take ownership of high-priority initiatives requiring senior-level attention and drive them from definition through execution.
- Translate broad strategic direction into clear priorities, decisions, actions, owners, and milestones.
- Provide independent analysis and perspective to strengthen executive decision-making.
- Represent the CDPO on selected initiatives and cross-functional efforts where delegated leadership is required.
Digital, Product & Strategic Initiatives
- Partner with Digital & Product leaders to evaluate emerging technologies, product opportunities, capabilities, partnerships, and strategic priorities.
- Conduct deep-dive analysis and develop business cases, strategic recommendations, investment theses, and implementation roadmaps.
- Evaluate technology trends and determine their practical applicability across Re:Build.
- Pressure-test assumptions and challenge conventional thinking when evaluating opportunities.
- Step into complex, ambiguous, or stalled initiatives and create structure, alignment, and momentum.
- Remain engaged through implementation to ensure recommendations translate into measurable outcomes.
Cross-Functional Execution & Organizational Effectiveness
- Work across Re:Build businesses and enterprise functions to advance priorities requiring broad organizational participation.
- Convene stakeholders, establish alignment, clarify decision rights, and resolve obstacles.
- Influence senior leaders and build coalitions without relying solely on formal authority.
- Identify dependencies, risks, and organizational barriers before they impede execution.
- Help strengthen coordination, operating discipline, and organizational effectiveness across Digital & Product.
- Create transparency around progress, risks, decisions, and accountability.
Qualifications
Required
- 10+ years of progressively responsible experience across strategy, technology, product, engineering, operations, consulting, business development, or similarly complex environments, with increasing scope and complexity.
- Experience working closely with senior executives such as a CTO, Chief Digital Officer, Chief Product Officer, CEO, or business unit president, ideally within technology, engineering, manufacturing, or industrial businesses.
- Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept through execution.
- Strong ability to structure ambiguous problems, rapidly develop command of unfamiliar subjects, and translate complexity into clear recommendations and decisions.
- Strong business judgment, analytical capability, and the ability to influence senior leaders and drive outcomes without direct authority.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Intellectual curiosity, resourcefulness, comfort operating with limited direction, and a strong bias toward action, ownership, and measurable outcomes.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, business, economics, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
Preferred
- Experience launching new products, businesses, technologies, or organizational capabilities.
- Experience evaluating emerging technologies and translating them into practical business applications.
- Experience supporting or leading strategic partnerships, investment decisions, M&A, or technology diligence.
- Experience operating within decentralized or matrixed organizations.
- Technical or engineering background combined with strong commercial and strategic judgment.
- Advanced degree such as an MBA, M.S. in engineering or computer science, or another relevant technical or business discipline.
What Success Looks Like
- The successful candidate can be handed a difficult, ambiguous problem and be trusted to figure it out and drive it to completion.
- They can enter an unfamiliar situation, quickly determine what matters, develop a point of view, bring the right people together, make clear recommendations, and stay with the work through execution.
- They are neither purely a strategist nor purely a project manager. They combine strategic thinking, strong operating judgment, and the organizational credibility to work effectively with senior leaders across Re:Build.
- They are comfortable operating behind the scenes when appropriate, but they can also step forward and lead when an initiative requires it. They build trust through sound judgment, follow-through, and results.
Compensation Range: The base salary range for this position is $161,532-$242,298 per year. This range represents the Company’s good faith estimate of the base compensation for this role at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors, including but not limited to relevant experience, skills, qualifications, internal equity, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for annual incentive compensation and/or long-term incentives, subject to Company plans. The Company offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, retirement, paid time off, and other benefits.
The BIG payoff
We are a company who is going to make a difference in the industries and the communities in which we choose to operate. Every employee of Re:Build will have an ownership stake in the company and will share in financial rewards of the success we achieve together, at all levels of the company!
We want to work with people that reflect the communities in which we operate
Re:Build Manufacturing is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, parental status, cultural background, organizational level, work styles, tenure and life experiences. Or for any other reason.
Re:Build is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or you may call us at 617.909.6275.
