Chief of Staff 2m Foundation Hillsborough, CA Job Details Full-time $150,000 a year 1 day ago Qualifications Strategic management Task prioritization Requirements analysis Healthcare privacy protection Vendor relationship management Requirements management Strategic consulting System development Supplier relationship management (SRM) Cross-functional team management Cross-functional communication Senior leadership Full Job Description

LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY

Chief of Staff Supporting Executive Director 2m Foundation | H2.0 and COUNTai

•Supporting Executive Director, 2m Foundation | H2.0 and COUNTai

•Full-Time | In-Person (SF Bay Area) | Benefits Eligible

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Salary:

$150K |

Target Start:

October 2026

•Reports to: Executive Director 2m Foundation is seeking a senior, hands-on Chief of Staff to serve as the Executive Director's trusted strategic partner. This operations-focused driver will help turn vision into coordinated execution across H2.0 and its personal health platform, COUNTai, a people-first health data initiative working toward a longitudinal, real-world view of chronic conditions starting with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The next 24 months will be a critical stage of growth for COUNTai, and the Chief of Staff will work alongside the Executive Director to keep priorities, people and decisions moving forward. The ideal candidate combines executive-level judgment with roll-up-your-sleeves execution. They can advise the ED, representing the effort with donors, researchers, technologists and advocates. This is a strategic operator role—weighing in on decisions about what should be built and in what order, documenting what finished looks like, accepting or returning completed work, and holding the Foundation and its development partners to clear decision rights and commitments.

HOW THE ROLE EVOLVES

Months 1-6

•Launch and operating foundation: The role will lean toward COUNTai delivery, study and grant readiness, community onboarding, user support, partner activation, event execution, and the 2026/27 launch plan. The immediate goal is to build dependable systems that can run without constant intervention. Month 7 and beyond

•Full Chief of Staff scope: As launch systems stabilize, the role will broaden into enterprise-wide prioritization, executive decision support, portfolio management, and cross-initiative operating leadership for H2.0 and related Foundation work.

WHAT YOU WILL DRIVE AND SUPPORT1.

Executive partnership and portfolio execution Advise and extend the

Executive Director:

Clarify priorities, prepare decisions, protect focus, surface tradeoffs, and drive follow-through across a fast-moving portfolio.

Build the operating system:

Translate strategy into owners, milestones, decision logs, meeting rhythms, risk registers, and clear accountability across COUNTai|H2.0 initiative, publications, and related work.

Create cross-organizational alignment:

Coordinate partners that do not share a reporting line; prepare high-stakes meetings, document commitments, manage handoffs, and escalate unresolved decisions early. 2. COUNTai product ownership and vendor management Represent the Foundation at the product table: Support decisions about what COUNTai should deliver and in what order, with priorities grounded in mission, study requirements, user needs, privacy, and available resources.

Define and accept deliverables:

Translate desired outcomes into clear requirements and a practical definition of done; review completed work, accept it when requirements are met, or return it with specific feedback.

Manage technical vendors and scope:

Track deliverables, milestones, budgets, dependencies, and agreed roles with software developers and scientific data partners; challenge scope that does not serve 2m Foundation or COUNTai. 3. Study, grant, and data stewardship Support human-subjects research operations: Coordinate consent workflows, participant recruitment and retention, protocol adherence, documentation, and issue escalation in partnership with scientific leadership.

Execute the grant operating plan:

Coordinate three organizations, separate budgets, milestones, partner subawards, supporting documentation, and timely NIH progress reporting.

Protect trust and data sovereignty:

Embed privacy and consent into operational decisions and explain de-identification, data use, and participant choice clearly to families, partners, and institutional stakeholders. 4. Community adoption, launch, and partner execution Build the participation infrastructure: Create onboarding, education, user support, escalation, feedback, and retention systems for non-technical users and community partners.

Activate a diverse partner network:

Turn trusted relationships

•from grassroots advocacy organizations to research and federal science partners

•into sustained participation, useful feedback, and measurable adoption.

Deliver launch and event readiness:

Coordinate operational readiness for the COUNTai launch and related events, including planned hackathon and first quarter launch event; surface risks early and capture lessons for future scale and funding.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS

LIKEWithin the first 90 days Clear governance: Decision rights, product priorities, vendor responsibilities, definitions of done, escalation paths, and operating rhythms are documented and in use.

Launch and study readiness:

A unified plan covers launch dependencies, IRB and consent workflows, recruitment, retention, protocol adherence, partner onboarding, user support, events, and grant milestones.

Measurable baselines:

Dashboards establish starting points and targets for enrolled participants, active users, 90-day retention, data completeness, support response time, partner activation, budget status, and milestone delivery. By 12 months Sustained participation: Participant enrollment and retention are on plan; active-user growth is progressing toward the 10,000-user goal; and partner organizations are successfully recruiting, onboarding, and supporting users.

Reliable operations and evidence:

Data completeness, support response, protocol adherence, vendor delivery, grant milestones, and reporting are visible, timely, and improving; launch systems can operate without constant executive intervention.

ROLE BOUNDARIES

This role owns integration, operating discipline, foundation-side product decisions, and follow-through. It partners closely with, but does not replace, the leaders who own scientific direction, engineering and AI implementation, or fundraising.

Scientific direction:

Led by the designated scientific leadership and research partners, including the Buck Institute; this role coordinates operations and protocol execution.

Engineering and AI implementation:

Led by the contracted development team; this role sets Foundation priorities, defines acceptance criteria, manages scope, and accepts or returns deliverables.

Fundraising:

Led by the Executive Director; this role supplies plans, progress, outcomes, and operating evidence that strengthen fundraising and reporting.

WHAT AN IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL BRING

Candidate Qualifications :

Required:

8+ years in strategy, operations, consulting, program leadership, or a Chief of Staff role; technical vendor management experience; meaningful exposure to human-subjects research operations or federal grant execution; experience building onboarding/retention systems for non-technical users in digital health or trust-sensitive environments; practical data privacy judgment; strong cross-boundary leadership and exceptional communication skills.

Preferred:

Relevant domain experience in autism, disability, precision medicine, digital health, life sciences, or data/AI. A personal or professional connection to the disability community, military service, or community-centered service is welcomed.

HOW TO APPLY

Please send a resume and a brief statement of interest to Include a writing sample of no more than two pages

•preferably something you wrote that helped a previous team or leader make a decision. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis through October 31. 2m Foundation welcomes qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds. If you need reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact us at

Pay:

$150,000.00 per year

Work Location:

In person