Chief Operating Officer

Required

• You’re probably not a career COO who has only scaled a working machine. You may be an early-stage GM, a Chief of Staff with real operating range, a founder or ex-founder, or a business operations leader who has built zero-to-one systems and wants a near-cofounder seat.
• You likely have:
• Founder-level ownership: you take responsibility for outcomes, create clarity, and do the unglamorous work when it matters.
• Recent hands-on operating experience, staying close to the numbers and the day-to-day because you want to.
• Experience building commercial or operational systems close to scratch, ideally in an early-stage or fast-moving environment.
• Strong quantitative instincts: you think in dashboards, cohorts, and unit economics.
• Pragmatism and speed: you know when to move fast, when to invest in rigor, and when to cut scope, and operate under ambiguity.
• Leadership range: you can coach and raise standards even without a large team yet.
• Low ego and high standards: direct, curious, and comfortable being challenged.
• Mission-driven, with public sector curiosity. No prior public sector experience required, but a belief that government can buy and operate better is an advantage.
• We’re especially interested in people who have operated as a GM, COO, or Chief of Staff in an early-stage company, or who come from marketplace, regulated, or compliance-heavy environments.
• What’s in it for You