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Chief of Staff

• Land Development
• Silverthorne Homebuilders
• In-person in Sycamore, IL (no remote)
• Some travel to the Quad Cities
• Full-time
• Somewhere right now, a giant publicly-traded homebuilder is holding its fourth meeting of the week to decide who's allowed to schedule the meeting about the meeting about the next deal. Someone there has a job title with six words and a Roman numeral in it. A grading permit has been sitting in an inbox for nine days because "that's not my department."
• We are not that place.
• Silverthorne is a nimble, vertically-integrated homebuilder and land developer where good ideas don't have to survive a gauntlet of corporate investment committees, and the person who owns a problem actually gets to solve it. We move fast, we finish what we start, and we'd rather hand someone real responsibility than a 40-page process manual and a corporate ladder to climb. We're looking for a
• Chief of Staff
• Land Development
• — the President's right hand, and the person who makes the land pipeline actually
• move

•. The role You'll be the operating engine behind our land development deals: driving every deal forward — on schedule and on budget — and keeping a talented (but very busy) team accountable to what they said they'd do. It's about 70% strategic right-hand work and 30% rolling up your sleeves on the applications, permits, and consultant-wrangling that turn dirt into neighborhoods. You'll report directly to the President. This is an

• in-person role based in our Sycamore, IL office — no remote
• — with some travel to our Quad Cities operations. If you're the kind of person who builds a tracker for fun, follows up before anyone has to ask, and can charm a municipal planner and hold a senior VP to a deadline in the same afternoon — keep reading. What you'll do
• Run the operating rhythm — a weekly deal review off one live tracker, with crisp notes and action items that actually get done.
• Drive accountability: turn commitments into tracked actions and chase them to the finish — 5 days out, 3 days out, day-of, daily-until-done.
• Keep every deal hitting its milestones on the dates we committed to. No more "it slipped."
• Own municipal applications, permitting, and the herd of consultants (engineers, surveyors, traffic, environmental) — and run the schedule yourself instead of hoping the engineer does.
• Own the pre-development and development budgets, with weekly cost updates and zero surprises. What you'll need
• Commercial real estate development
• or• residential land development experience — required.
• Civil engineers in these categories are encouraged to apply.
• Illinois development experience is a must.
• You already know how entitlements, municipalities, and regulatory agencies work in this state.
• Able to work in person in our Sycamore, IL office (again — not a remote role) and travel occasionally to the Quad Cities. Who you are
• Meticulous
• and• assertive•— a rare combination, we know.

You sweat the details on a plat and still walk into a room and hold people to their word.

• Relentless follow-through. Nothing falls through the cracks on your watch.
• Comfortable directing experts without needing to
• be• the expert.

Confidence over credentials. What's in it for you Here's where we're genuinely different from the big guys:

• Profit sharing
• — share in the success of the deals you help deliver. When we win, you win.
• A real path to ownership
• — earn equity in our projects and a genuine path to becoming a principal one day. Not a foosball table. Actual ownership.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Employee discount program on new builds
• — yes, on the homes we build.
• Competitive base plus performance-based variable
• — target total earnings of
• $150,000
• 250,000
• in year one, with room to grow from there.
• A seat at the table, not a rung on a ladder. Sound like you? Apply right here on Indeed with your resume. Bonus points if you tell us about a time you dragged something across the finish line that would've died without you — those are our favorite stories.
• Silverthorne Homebuilders is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to any legally protected status.

Pay:

$150,000.00

• $250,000.

00 per year

Benefits:

401(k) 401(k) matching Dental insurance Employee assistance program Employee discount Flexible schedule Health insurance Life insurance Paid time off Professional development assistance Referral program Retirement plan Tuition reimbursement Vision insurance

Work Location:

In person