SVP / VP of Operations

The role

You will run the operating side of Emergence alongside the CEO. You will set how the company runs day to day, build shared functions such as legal, security, IT and governance, and help bring new companies into the group.

What you will do

• Set Emergence's operating cadence and hold everyone to it
• Help the CEO decide where their time goes and make sure decisions get done
• Prepare the Emergence board and operating company boards with the CEO and Head of Finance
• Pick up cross-team work that has no clear owner, then hand it off cleanly
• Lead legal, security, IT and governance and hire the right leader for each
• Decide what to build in-house, buy or outsource
• Set the minimum bar operating companies must meet on security, IT, contracts, privacy and compliance
• Own how new companies are brought into the group, from signing through the first 90 days
• Spot operating companies drifting off plan and get them the right help
• Take on oversight of specific operating companies as the CEO hands them over

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in operating roles, such as COO, head of operations, chief of staff to a CEO, or portfolio operations at a PE firm or holding company
• Experience working closely with a CEO or founder
• Experience building a standard, cadence or playbook from nothing
• Experience building a function from scratch, including hiring its leader
• Experience running a P&L, or working close enough to one that operators see you as one of them
• Experience bringing an acquired company into a larger group
• Experience in regulated businesses, owning part of compliance or risk
• Clear and direct communication, including at board level
• Picks up unfamiliar functions fast and says plainly what you don't know yet
• Moves people with or without formal authority
• Hires people better than yourself, including in functions you have never practiced
• Knows what to say, to whom and when

About the company

Emergence is a holding company that buys businesses to keep them and aims to be a long-term home for companies. It gives operating company leaders real authority, supported by shared standards, systems and capital.