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The Exec Ops Brief is a weekly dispatch: the highest-paying roles in the field, and the playbooks that make you impossible to replace. Read by the people who keep executives, and everything under them, on course.
What lands in your inbox
The Roles
A curated set of executive assistant, chief of staff, and operations openings, every one carrying comp the firm actually published, and every one clearing a $100K floor. Nothing estimated, nothing left blank.
The Playbook
One operator craft piece: managing up, running the leadership meeting, building a decision log, the first ninety days. The work itself, explained by people who have done it.
The Signal
A short read on the market: what the role pays, where it's heading, and how the best operators are leveling up. Sourced, never guessed.
This week's board
A sample from the live board, pulled straight from it. Every role is real, sourced from specialist recruiters, role networks, or portfolio-company boards, and carries a comp figure the source published with a midpoint of at least $100K. Roles without a published figure don't go up at all.
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Tools you can use right now
A few fast instruments for the decisions operators keep running into: compensation, readiness, a real offer on the table, and the first ninety days in a new seat.
Salary and comp benchmarker
Calibrate Chief of Staff and exec-ops compensation by level, market, and company stage.
First 90 days interactive plan
Turn a new seat into a practical map of people, priorities, decisions, and early wins.
Chief of Staff readiness quiz
Score the operating muscles that matter before you make the move or interview for the role.
Offer evaluator
Score an offer against what actually matters, so you know your target and your walk-away before the call.
From the library
Field notes on the craft of executive operations. New pieces reach subscribers first.
A brief worth the inbox
The Exec Ops Brief exists because the best resources for this work were scattered, gated, or written by people who had never done the job. This is the opposite: a plain, useful, weekly read from inside the role.
It's free, and it stays that way. The paid work, templates and guides, comes later and only when it's genuinely good.
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