Chief Operating Officer

AI Acquisition

8d•Remote

About The Position

AI Acquisition (operating as Growth Partner Group / Accelerator Next Gen) is a bootstrapped, multi-entity business running high-velocity acquisition, coaching, SaaS, and performance marketing operations across Europe, MENA, North America, and South Asia. We are founder-led, fast, and commercially driven. We build it, test it, and scale it — before others are still planning. The founders are strong on vision, capital allocation, and commercial growth. The gap is the operating layer — management depth, accountability architecture, and the systems that allow leadership to work on the business instead of in it. We explored hiring a President. What we need is not another strategist. We need a hardcore operator who will own the P&L, build the operating system, hold the organisation accountable, and make the company more profitable. This is a role for someone who has done it before and wants to do it again at scale.

Requirements

Verifiable P&L ownership — revenue grew or margin improved during your specific tenure, confirmable by a named third-party source
Operated across at least two domain families: GTM (marketing / sales / CS), Ops/Finance (P&L / systems), and People (management / accountability)
Built operating infrastructure from scratch — not inherited, not fractional; real systems with named outputs and before/after outcomes
Made hard people decisions: exits, restructures, performance management with consequences
In-house operating experience inside an actual operating company (not exclusively consulting, advisory, or fractional)
DC DISC temperament — high Dominance and Conscientiousness; will push back on founders and drive accountability without consensus-seeking
Managed teams of 30+ with direct reports at VP / Director level
High IQ, high agency, high urgency — you move before you are asked

Nice To Haves

COO, President, GM, MD, VP Operations, or Head of Operations title in a founder-led company (50–500 employees)
Background in coaching, SaaS, agency, info products, performance marketing, or high-velocity services
Doubled revenue or improved EBITDA margin by 5%+ in a tenure window, documented
Built an operating cadence (weekly reviews, KPI dashboards, incentive structures) that outlasted your tenure
Experience managing distributed / remote teams across multiple geographies
Has spoken publicly about operating philosophy — podcasts, conference Q&A, written content

Responsibilities

Full P&L ownership across business units — you set the targets, you drive the outcomes, you own the number
Build the accountability infrastructure from scratch — KPIs, scorecards, operating cadence, incentive structures, and process automations. Real systems with named outputs, not templates
Direct management of department heads and senior operators — radical clarity on expectations, consequences, and growth. You make the hard calls (exits, restructures, resets) without deferring upward
Partner with marketing and sales leadership on pipeline, conversion, and revenue operations — you understand the levers and own them when needed
Partner with People & Talent to build management depth — you define the profiles, set the standard, hold the bar
Free the founders from operational management so they can focus on vision, growth, and external relationships — you are the connective tissue between strategy and execution