Integrator / Chief Operating Officer (Second-in-Command)

Location: Remote (Strong preference: South Africa or Eastern Europe)
Compensation: €5,000 per month base + 10% profit share (new ventures only)
Industry: Venture Studio / Holding Company / B2B Services
Schedule: Full-time, long-term operator role

High-Level Summary

Our client is hiring a high-level second-in-command to help build and operate a new venture studio from the ground up.

This role is for a truth-seeking, no-fluff operator who aligns with a freedom-oriented, entrepreneurial mission and wants real responsibility, real authority, and real economic upside.

This is not a corporate COO seat.
This is a long-term partnership role for someone who wants to help build companies and a company that builds companies.

About the Company

Our client is a newly formed venture studio and holding company spun out of an established, profitable B2B services business.

The studio is being built by experienced operators, not venture capitalists, with a clear philosophy:
build, buy, and scale profit-first businesses in an institutional way.

Portfolio companies may never exceed $10M in revenue and that is intentional. These are durable, sustainable businesses designed to reinforce each other through shared systems, talent, and execution.

The goal is not moonshots. The goal is repeatable value creation.

Role Overview (Integrator / Second-in-Command)

Our client is hiring an Integrator / COO to serve as the founders’ second-in-command.
The founders focus on vision, strategy, capital allocation, and new venture creation.
You own execution.
You will run day-to-day operations, hold teams accountable, manage performance, and ensure the studio and its portfolio companies operate profitably and predictably.
This is a hands-on, execution-heavy role with real authority. You are expected to operate like an internal owner, not a coordinator or advisor.

Key Responsibilities

1. Operational Leadership and Cadence

Run the operating rhythm across the venture studio and its portfolio companies
Translate high-level strategy into priorities, weekly execution, and outcomes
Establish clarity, accountability, and follow-through across teams
Ensure the trains run on time

2. P&L Ownership and Profit Discipline

Own operational performance and profitability across ventures
Make hard trade-offs with a cash-flow and ROI mindset
Focus on what actually moves profit, not vanity metrics or over-analysis

3. People Leadership and Management

Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams (operations, sales, delivery, product)
Set expectations, resolve friction, and address underperformance directly
Bring structure and discipline where the founders openly acknowledge weakness

4. Systems and Process Development

Build lightweight, scalable systems for execution and reporting
Avoid overengineering, bureaucracy, or corporate process bloat
Optimize for speed, clarity, and repeatability across the portfolio

5. Founder Leverage

Act as the execution counterweight to visionary founders
Absorb operational complexity so founders can focus on strategy and new ventures
Operate with a portfolio-wide view while being able to deep-dive into individual businesses when needed

Hard Skills Required

Experience operating as a founder’s right-hand (Integrator, COO, Head of Ops, GM, or similar)
Proven ownership of execution, cadence, and accountability
Experience managing teams in startup, SMB, or portfolio environments
Strong logical thinking with the ability to build spreadsheets and understand basic statistics
Working understanding of financials and P&L, without over-indexing on finance

Soft Skills and Mindset Required

Strong alignment with a freedom-focused, entrepreneurial mission
Direct, straightforward communication style with low tolerance for drama
Truth-seeking, systems-thinking approach to problems
Comfortable giving and receiving blunt feedback
Builder mindset: excited to create, improve, and scale rather than manage a role

Background Fit (Important)

Strong fits typically come from:

Founder-led businesses where you were the execution engine
SMB or portfolio operations roles
Operators with real-world P&L responsibility
Consulting or finance backgrounds are only a fit when paired with hands-on operating experience.

Integrator / Chief Operating Officer (Second-in-Command) - 54187610113