Chief of Staff

Zanskar

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Posted on: 2026-01-22

Category: energy

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Powering the future with the Earth’s hidden heat.

Geothermal is carbon-free, always-on power but most of the world’s geothermal resources remain undiscovered and undeveloped.

Zanskar is changing that. We take a AI and data-driven, scalable approach to geothermal discovery and development combining modern geoscience and advanced field methods to identify and tap into overlooked or underutilized geothermal resources.

By making geothermal faster and more predictable to develop, we’re unlocking its potential to deliver gigawatts of clean, firm energy and to become a cornerstone of our future energy system.

Role Overview

Title: Chief of Staff

Hours: Full-time; Salaried

Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Manager: Carl Hoiland (CEO)

Mission – Why we exist and why we need you

Geothermal energy is the most abundant renewable energy source in the world. However, historically it’s been hard to find and expensive to develop. At Zanskar, we’re using better technology to find and develop new geothermal resources in order to make geothermal a cost-effective and vital contributor to a carbon-free energy future. We are revolutionizing the exploration process, setting new industry standards for discovery rates and finding new prospects at an unprecedented scale.

Zanskar is seeking a high-performing Chief of Staff to act as a strategic operator to the CEO. The Chief of Staff will build and manage the company’s operating cadence, align cross-functional priorities, and ensure the company achieves its ambitious goals to change the future of energy. Success means you create leverage for the CEO, creating time and insights for him and his team to work on the most important things.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Zanskar is an equal-opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practice laws.

Primary Duties will Include:

Executive meetings: You will lead and improve executive preparation and communication from board meetings to weekly all-hands. You will ensure the CEO and stakeholders are ready for key meetings and may stand-in for the CEO if required.

Ops visibility & operating model: Scaling a growing company requires prioritization and clear communication up, down, and across the company. A major part of success will be increasing data availability and visibility to key stakeholders, especially the executive team. You will build clarity into the strategic planning, strategy accountability, and operating model to improve execution.

Strategic support: Help CEO and co-founders create, revise, and refine company strategy and policies ranging from hiring to working norms to performance management.

Special projects: You may be asked to launch new initiatives necessary for the company when there is no clear functional leader.

The Ideal Candidate Should Demonstrate:

Quick learner: Rapidly ramps on new domains and demonstrates exceptionally strong first-principles reasoning. Independently produces accurate, well-structured work. Highly interested in applying new technologies to solve problems faster.

Strategic prioritizer: Takes nebulous direction and converts it into a clear plan. Ensures the team stays focused on the highest-leverage priorities.

Servant leadership: Brings a proven history of effective change management. Can align stakeholders, even when encountering resistance to change, and helps teams adopt new ways of working that enable everyone to achieve their goals.

Flexibility & self-starter: Comfortable with changing priorities, dynamics, and gray areas of responsibility. Acts with initiative and proactively fills gaps to keep work moving forward.

Extreme integrity: Operates with uncompromising ethics and respect for confidentiality when handling sensitive issues. Consistent track record of doing what you said you’d do, and approaching difficult subjects with the truth.