[Remote] VP of Operations

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Embarc Advisors is hiring a VP of Operations to serve as the Founder/CEO's right hand and future EOS Integrator. The role owns the firm's operating rhythm, planning and capacity models, accountability systems, and execution of plans to scale its M&A advisory, transaction diligence, and strategic CFO advisory businesses.

Responsibilities

• Sit in on every leadership meeting, meet each practice lead, and learn the Scorecard, Rocks and open issues
• By day 30, you run the weekly leadership meeting and own the operating rhythm
• Learn how each business makes money
• Go deep on M&A advisory, transaction diligence and strategic CFO advisory: pipeline, pricing, utilization and margin
• Help lead your first quarterly planning session and you can explain how each business wins, with its numbers, and you've identified the biggest operational bottlenecks and a plan to fix them
• Identify tasks the Operations team needs to do to ensure the client-facing staff members can reach their goals for the 1-year plan and 3-year picture
• Build planning and capacity models and tighten the Scorecard so every leader owns measurable numbers
• Build a work plan to achieve these goals
• Present a data-backed answer to "How do we double revenue?"
• Step into growth
• Turn the plan into Rocks, hiring plans and accountabilities
• Prove it in the results
• Execute the plan, scale core systems (hiring, onboarding, HR, legal, IT, AI and automation), and report progress against targets every week

Skills

• You hold now, or held recently, a VP of Operations, Chief of Staff, General Manager or EOS Integrator role in which you reported directly to a founder/CEO and worked with the leadership team as a peer
• You've helped grow a professional services or multi-line firm of roughly 30 to 60+ people
• You can point to the systems you put in place: meeting cadence, KPIs, and hiring and onboarding processes
• You built and owned the forecast, budget or capacity model that leadership used to make decisions, and you're fluent in P&L, utilization and margin
• You've run the operating rhythm for a leadership team (weekly meetings, scorecards, quarterly priorities)
• You held senior people to their commitments without formal authority over them
• You've put AI or automation into a real team workflow and can show the result, beyond using it for your own productivity
• You've had at least one role in a founder-led or high-growth company
• You have a bachelor's degree
• Hands-on EOS experience
• A background in M&A, investment banking, corporate development, strategic finance or consulting
• Experience leading marketing or business development
• Tools you've built with low-code or AI
• A Bay Area base
• A master's in finance, economics, math, business or social science

Benefits

• A semi-annual performance bonus
• 401(k) with a 3% employer contribution after one year
• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Unlimited vacation time
• Paid sick leave
• Short-term disability insurance
• Three team offsites per year
• 100% remote work
• The opportunity to share on the upside

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