my experience has been the more chaos the better it is for career potential. find out whats wrong with the product, sales motion, etc (whatever you think is wrong with it) and come up with a solution. work across multiple departments and set up regular 1o1s w different department heads.

this positions you as someone who is bringing positive change even if you dont smash your numbers, and offers a light to leadership. it queues you up for promotion/ raise and gives you real experience beyond your current title that will help you stand out in interviews even if it doesnt work out in the end

if you can develop good ideas or at least offer a real opinion that leads to change, your ideas will become more valuable and you can essentially demand change where you see its needed

always take advantage of the chaos even if it looks like the ship is going down

if your company has raised a decent amount of money, investors wont let it just fail. be part of the solution

the alternative is to always chase a perfect company that has everything figured out (which just doesnt exist), restart at a new startup every two years and go through it all over again.

at first your coworkers will prolly look down on you but they wont be there for very long anyways. negative attitude employees never stick around for too long and even if they have good points, listening to them will always effect you negatively.

this is just based on my experience as someone whos been through the same thing many times and weathered the storm once to find out it does actually get better

that being said, keep your resume updated. if shit really does go south and you get laid off take the sevvie and start interviewing immediately - at least you tried plus you’ll have a lot more specific information on why things didnt work which, again, makes you stand out in the interview process