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Who We Are

PowerSpike is a media & technology company focused on building the most compelling and streamlined destination for activating sponsorships within gaming communities. PowerSpike collaborates with 20,000+ gaming and esports influencers to execute premium, authentic influencer marketing campaigns. PowerSpike’s influencer network reaches over 125M viewers every month and grew over 1000% in 2018. The 4-year-old company is backed by Techstars, Cox Enterprises, the Philadelphia 76ers, the Dorm Room Fund, and Ocean Azul Partners.

What we’re building

PowerSpike is building the world’s first Influencer Exchange.

Like a traditional ad exchange, where buyers can place bids for ads in real-time, PowerSpike’s technology instead enables brands to bid on influencers. We’re taking the simple and streamlined experience of programmatic advertising, and combining it with the authenticity of influencer marketing to deliver instantly scalable influencer campaigns. Think Google Ads meets influencers.

Currently focused on the gaming space, our technology enables brands like Intuit Quickbooks and Activision Blizzard to launch influencer campaigns across our network of over 20,000+ Twitch streamers, just like they'd make a media buy.

Your work will directly help influencers pursue their dreams and assist some of the biggest brands in the world in streamlining their influencer marketing efforts.

What we need

The fixer, the band-aid, the fire fighter...these are all alternative titles for the role, but in essence, the Chief of Staff has one key responsibility - help PowerSpike’s CEO AJ Damiano to help PowerSpike succeed.

Startups grow fast, and as a part of that growth - things are inevitably going to break; that’s where you come in. We’re looking for someone special here - someone who fully embodies our cultural values of Radical Candor, Creativity, Positivity, Collaboration, and Learning; and can be the counterpart to the CEO when it comes to building PowerSpike into a massive organization.

As the Chief of Staff, you’ll wear a lot of hats - a lot of them. In this role, you’ll directly support the CEO on all major projects and priorities, and have intimate insight into the core operations of a high growth startup.

Your core responsibility will be to clear out any obstacles and bottlenecks in the way of PowerSpike’s growth, and assist the CEO, and the rest of the organization in managing the day to day operations of PowerSpike. When something breaks, you’ll be on the front lines fighting the fire.

We value learning, creativity, candor, and collaboration - and as one of the first people at PowerSpike, we’re looking for someone who can help us define our culture and processes for years to come. Simply put, we believe in hiring A+ people, giving them clarity in what success means, and then supporting them to their fullest potential.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE

  • Supporting the CEO to help PowerSpike succeed
  • Serving as a "facilitator" for the CEO; ensuring the CEO's time is focused on the highest value activities and business issues
  • Helping the CEO to identify items that can be delegated, where time allocation should be changed, etc. and coordinating / managing delegated items
  • Supporting the CEO on creating key documents (e.g. board communications, internal communications)
  • Proactively clearing out any bottlenecks or roadblocks that may hinder PowerSpike’s growth
  • Stepping in to assist when something breaks
  • Directing and supporting the day to day operations of the PowerSpike team based on the CEO’s recommendations

OTHER POTENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES MAY INCLUDE

  • Implementing processes, plans, and measurements to help our people succeed and ensure we hit our milestones as an organization
  • Creating customer contracts
  • Conducting meetings with team members and influencing decisions throughout the organization
  • Managing and measuring people
  • Maintaining company wide KPI’s
  • Assisting the sales team in creating proposals
  • Assisting the HR team in selecting company benefits, and managing elements of PowerSpike’s payroll
  • Working with the legal and accounting teams to ensure deals are closed
  • Working with the execution team to ensure timelines are met for our clients
  • Responding to emails and scheduling meetings for the CEO
  • Managing PowerSpike’s New York office - handling food orders and other misc. items
  • Responding to customer challenges and support inquiries
  • Onboarding and training new people at PowerSpike to help them succeed
  • Organizing company retreats and all-hands meetings and assisting in building the company culture
  • Assisting the CEO with recruiting, board meeting prep, investor updates, and business development.
  • Managing follow ups (communications, action items, and execution) for meetings, partnerships, and key relationships

REQUIREMENTS

  • 3-5+ years experience in startups as a CEO, COO, Chief of Staff, Administrative Assistant or Operations person
  • Exceptional communication and operational skills
  • Ability to comfortably dive into most/any area of the business or product and be a multi-tasker
  • Desire to work in a fast-paced early-stage startup environment
  • Ability to learn fast, adapt quickly, wear many hats, and hit the ground running
  • Efficient with limited resources, and extraordinarily entrepreneurial

BONUS POINTS IF

  • You’re a gamer/Twitch fan
  • You’ve worked at a startup or attempted to launch your own startup before (even if it failed)
  • You have experience acting as a band-aid/fixer in previous startups

BENEFITS

  • Competitive compensation
  • Stock options
  • Generous PTO
  • Medical Insurance
  • Track for professional growth
  • Early access to new products, games and services emerging in the space
  • Opportunity to be on the ground floor of one of the fastest-growing startups in the gaming ecosystem

PowerSpike, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.

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