Chief of Staff, Executive Leadership Program

Job Description

Chief of Staff, Executive Leadership Program | Banyan Software

The Tone:
This is a full-time, two-year executive leadership program at Banyan Software, available remotely in the United States or Canada. Banyan acquires and grows software businesses that serve specialized industries, providing them a permanent home. This high-impact role is crucial for future leaders who want to learn how vertical software businesses are built and run, offering the fastest path to leading one.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Two-year program
• Location: Remote, United States or Canada

• Team: Reports directly to one of Banyan’s seasoned Operating Leaders.
• Mission: Lead high-impact initiatives to drive value creation across a portfolio of software businesses, preparing for a C-suite or leadership role.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Portfolio Value Creation: Partner with CEOs and functional leaders across multiple operating companies to implement the Banyan Operating System and drive measurable operational improvements.
• Project Leadership: Lead high-impact, cross-functional projects across areas such as product, go-to-market, sales, marketing, pricing, and customer success as a right hand to an Operating Leader.
• M&A Integration: Support integration planning and onboarding for newly acquired businesses, helping establish operating rhythms and execute the value-creation plan post-acquisition.
• Executive Partnership: Support an Operating Leader on critical initiatives, executive decision-making, and cross-company collaboration, influencing outcomes without formal authority.
• General Management Development: Build the judgment, breadth, and pattern recognition necessary for future general management by working across diverse business problems within a portfolio of vertical software companies.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Graduating or recently graduated from a top MBA program; this cycle is not open to first-year MBA students.
• Experience: 2–5 years of pre-MBA experience in an operating role (product, business operations, portfolio operations, or value creation), management consulting, private equity, or investment banking, with a demonstrated record of owning measurable outcomes.
• Skills: Exceptional communication and interpersonal judgment, ability to synthesize complex information and influence senior stakeholders without relying on formal authority, high learning agility and comfort with ambiguity, low ego and high ownership.
• Bonus: Experience in software, SaaS, or another recurring revenue business; familiarity with vertical software economics; experience leading a team.