Chief of Staff

Chief of Staff — Lavela Health

Location: Remote (California preferred)  

Type: Full-time  

Reports to: Founder & CEO  

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Lavela Health is reimagining the way women experience mental healthcare after pregnancy loss and through reproductive challenges. We pair a beautifully designed digital experience with clinical excellence, curated therapists, and a community where women feel seen, validated, and supported.  

We are building something that is deeply human, deeply important, and unapologetically premium.

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The Role:

The Chief of Staff is the Founder’s strategic partner and steady counterpart, the person who turns Lavela’s mission into motion.  

You will help shape the foundation of our company: how we operate, how teams work together, how ideas become products, and how we grow with intention. This role is for a builder, someone who thrives in early stages, who loves creating structure from possibility, and who understands the emotional gravity of the women we serve.

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What You’ll Do:

• Operational Heartbeat  
• Create elegant systems for how we run: planning, decision-making, roadmaps, accountability.  
• Turn ambiguity into calendars, milestones, and momentum.  
• Ensure every team knows what matters now, what matters next, and what can wait.  
• Founder Support  
• Protect the Founder’s time and mindshare.  
• Anticipate needs, filter noise, simplify complexity, and present thoughtful recommendations.  
• Manage sensitive relationships with therapists, partners, and early hires.

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Cross-Functional Leadership:

• Align product, clinical, compliance, and marketing in a way that feels grounded and purposeful.  
• Build processes that lift people up, not slow them down.  
• Step into projects that don’t yet have an owner  

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Therapist Experience & Community

• Help design a therapist onboarding journey that is warm, respectful, and painless.  
• Listen to therapists, map their pain points, and translate insights into improvements.  
• Support the emergence of a Founding Therapist collective that feels special, not transactional.

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Experience That Helps

We welcome different paths! The right person may come from:  

• Chief of Staff roles  
• Early-stage operator or founder roles  
• Product operations or healthtech leadership  
• Program director or clinical operations roles  
• VC-backed startup environments

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What Success Looks Like

• The Founder spends more time on vision, product, and therapist relationships, not putting out fires.  
• Teams move in harmony, not competition.  
• Our processes feel thoughtful, not corporate.  
• Our therapists love being part of Lavela.  
• Women using our platform feel supported, not lost.

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Compensation

Competitive base salary + meaningful equity. We invest in the people who help us build the future.

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Why Lavela

There are few opportunities in a career where your work truly matters. Lavela is one of them.  

We are creating a platform that meets women in their most fragile moments and offers grace, expertise, and hope. If you want to help shape something beautiful and necessary, we want to meet you.