Chief Operating Officer

The role

The Chief Operating Officer will serve as the chief architect of operational excellence and a strategic partner to the CEO. This leader will manage finance, operations, and people functions to scale the organization's AI-native workforce model.

What you will do

• Lead strategic decisions and accelerate enterprise-wide execution across all functions
• Establish enterprise metrics, dashboards, and analytical systems for executive decision-making and Board governance
• Design and maintain KPI architecture for real-time view of organizational health
• Optimize internal infrastructure, tools, workflows, and AI-native processes
• Establish performance management systems and accountability structures
• Architect evolving organizational structure and reporting lines
• Partner with CEO on workforce planning, capacity building, and talent scaling
• Implement change management strategies and cross-functional collaboration frameworks
• Exercise executive ownership over finance, HR, talent, culture, and core workflows
• Provide direct managerial leadership to the VP of Finance and VP of People

Required qualifications

• 8–12 years of experience in business operations or leadership operations roles
• Experience spanning both a strategy/consulting environment and a hands-on operating role
• Previous consultative experience paired with real experience running operations
• Exceptional analytical and strategic thinking skills
• Experience leading or partnering closely with strategic finance functions
• History of cultivating elite teams and establishing high-performance standards during rapid scaling
• Success in architecting robust operational systems, processes, and infrastructure
• Extensive experience designing and governing executive-level KPI frameworks and dashboards
• Deep expertise in organizational design, structural transformation, and team topology scaling
• Experience building or running business operations and HR/People systems at scale
• High tolerance for ambiguity and bias toward building
• Motivated by Pursuit's mission of economic transformation

Nice to have

• MBA or equivalent advanced degree

Benefits

• Full benefits package including vision and dental
• Unlimited PTO
• All-Pursuit summer break (last week of August)
• Week-long holiday break (last week of December)
• 401k match
• Hybrid and flexible work policy
• Dedicated time to build in AI and develop your own AI skills

Before you apply

• Applications submitted through the On-Ramps portal will not be monitored
• Please submit your application directly via On-Ramps to be considered

About the company

Pursuit is an AI-native organization building a tech workforce pipeline for low-income and underrepresented communities. They use an outcomes-based financing model to scale economic mobility.