Chief Operating Officer

About the Role:

We are looking for a Chief Operating Officer who can build businesses, generate revenue, create strategic relationships and convert opportunities into measurable outcomes.

This is not a conventional operations role.

We are looking for someone who can walk into a business problem, understand it quickly, find the commercial opportunity, build the solution, execute it and create revenue.

You will work directly with the Founder & CEO and will have significant ownership across business operations, revenue generation, strategic partnerships, expansion and execution.

What We Are Looking For:

The ideal candidate is a self-starter, independent business builder and strategic operator with a strong history of creating measurable business outcomes.

You should be comfortable operating with limited resources, limited hierarchy and incomplete information.

What matters most is your proven ability to build and execute.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Business & Revenue:

- Drive revenue growth across business verticals.

- Identify immediate and long-term commercial opportunities.

- Build new revenue channels.

- Develop enterprise and strategic accounts.

- Build high-value partnerships.

- Convert business relationships into commercial opportunities.

- Own commercial execution from opportunity to closure.

2. Operations:

- Build scalable operating systems and processes.

- Improve execution speed and accountability.

- Coordinate cross-functional business operations.

- Identify operational bottlenecks and create solutions.

- Establish measurable KPIs and performance systems.

3. Strategic Growth:

- Identify new markets, products and business opportunities.

- Evaluate partnerships and strategic alliances.

- Support international expansion.

- Develop new business models.

- Work directly with the Founder & CEO on strategic initiatives.

4. Leadership:

- Build and lead lean, high-performance teams.

- Set clear ownership across functions.

- Hire strong performers when required.

- Create a culture of accountability and execution.

Qualifications & Experience:

- 15+ years of professional experience.

- Proven leadership experience.

- Demonstrable business development, revenue and operations experience.

- Strong strategic and commercial understanding.

- Experience building or scaling a business, business unit, market or revenue channel.

- Strong negotiation and relationship-management capabilities.

- Excellent English communication.

- Startup or entrepreneurial experience is strongly valued.