Chief Operating Officer

The Military Veteran•Miami, FL

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Chief Operating Officer (COO) will serve as the senior internal operating leader of the company and a critical partner to the executive leadership team. While other members of the executive team remain focused on customers, strategic partnerships, technology, capital formation, and long-term growth, the COO will own the operating cadence required to turn those opportunities into results. This leader will bring structure to a highly dynamic environment without introducing unnecessary bureaucracy. They will establish clear priorities, create visibility into performance, strengthen accountability across functional leaders, and ensure that commitments made throughout the organization translate into execution. The mandate spans the enterprise. The COO will work across finance, manufacturing and supply chain, product, sales, talent, and other operating functions to connect the entire business equation and ensure that each part of the organization is executing against a coherent plan. This is fundamentally a builder's role. The right person will be comfortable moving between executive-level strategy and highly practical operating problems, creating systems where none exist, challenging assumptions with data, and personally stepping into issues when required.

Requirements

Exceptional operator who combines analytical rigor with practical judgment and strong people leadership.
Understand that metrics are a tool for driving outcomes rather than an end in themselves.
Comfortable evaluating financial and operational performance, but equally capable of understanding the people, organizational, and execution issues behind the numbers.
Thrive in environments where the destination is clear but the path is not.
Expected to make decisions with incomplete information, create structure where needed, and adjust rapidly as the company evolves.
Must be comfortable being accountable for results rather than simply advising others on what should happen.
Likely have spent their career in environments where standards are high, resources are finite, information is imperfect, and execution matters.
Naturally analytical and comfortable challenging assumptions with evidence, but they cannot be rigid.
Must be able to understand people, organizational dynamics, and changing circumstances well enough to know when a process should be followed and when the situation requires adaptation.
An integrator and enterprise leader: someone who can bring talented people together, establish a common operating picture, create accountability, and ensure the organization consistently finishes what it starts.
Combine intensity with humility.
Hold themselves and others to demanding standards while building trust and creating an environment where people understand what is expected of them and want to perform.

Nice To Haves

Significant leadership experience in a demanding, high-accountability operating environment.
Demonstrated success translating strategy into measurable organizational execution.
Strong financial and business acumen with fluency around P&Ls, cash flow, forecasting, operating metrics, and business performance.
Experience leading across multiple functions rather than operating exclusively within a single functional specialty.
Track record of building operating systems, processes, dashboards, and accountability mechanisms from the ground up.
Experience within a growth-stage, entrepreneurial, restructuring, or rapidly evolving organization.
Exposure to technology businesses involving hardware, manufacturing, supply chain, or complex physical operations strongly preferred.
Experience within defense technology, dual-use technology, aerospace, industrial technology, public-sector technology, or another mission-critical operating environment is highly attractive.
Military or national-security leadership experience strongly preferred.
Prior P&L ownership is highly valued but may not be required for an otherwise exceptional operator with demonstrated financial aptitude and enterprise-level responsibility.
Experience supporting strategic partnerships, major commercial initiatives, acquisitions, or other complex growth opportunities is preferred.
Exceptional analytical ability coupled with the judgment to recognize when numbers alone do not tell the entire story.
Proven ability to lead and influence senior functional leaders while maintaining strong working relationships across an organization.
Ability to build structure without creating bureaucracy.
Willingness to remain hands-on and personally solve problems despite operating at the executive level.
High integrity, discipline, humility, resilience, and personal accountability.
Strong mission orientation and a genuine desire to build something rather than simply manage what already exists.

Responsibilities

Partner directly with executive leadership to translate company strategy into clear operating priorities, plans, and measurable outcomes.
Own the company's weekly, monthly, and quarterly operating cadence and continually improve how leadership evaluates performance.
Establish meaningful KPIs, dashboards, reporting mechanisms, and accountability systems across the organization.
Create clear ownership around priorities, deliverables, decision rights, and functional responsibilities.
Connect performance across finance, product, operations, manufacturing, supply chain, sales, and talent so leadership has an integrated view of the business.
Maintain strong visibility into revenue performance, expenses, cash requirements, operating capacity, and other critical business indicators.
Identify execution gaps early, determine root causes, and ensure corrective action occurs.
Build scalable operating processes that increase discipline and repeatability without slowing the organization down.
Drive cross-functional alignment and ensure strategic decisions are effectively communicated and translated throughout the company.
Coach and challenge functional leaders while creating a culture in which commitments, deadlines, and performance standards matter.
Partner closely with talent leadership to strengthen organizational design, onboarding, performance management, and leadership development.
Support evaluation and execution of major strategic initiatives, partnerships, new market opportunities, and potential inorganic growth opportunities.
Help build the operating infrastructure required to support substantial organizational and commercial expansion.