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Group COO / Operating Partner

Elevation Capital
$192,109 - $276,211 a year
United States
5 days ago
ABOUT US
Elevation Capital - is a group of internationally impactful companies spanning consumer packaged goods, hospitality, technology, real estate, non-profit, and venture funding. Run by a highly entrepreneurial self made founder, and a team of highly capable executives across business units, the business operates globally with interests in US, Canada, Europe and the Caribbean. With wholly owned companies in a range of growth stages and an ever expanding investment portfolio, this group jointly serves a global vision to create an evolved world where humanity serves our highest purpose. Our mission is to create and deploy capital for a better world.

To learn more, please visit: elevationcapital.vc

WHAT YOU'LL DO

As a Group COO / Operating Partner in our family office group, you will be managing a diversified portfolio of investments, primarily wholly owned operational companies in real estate manufacturing, technology, , private equity, and venture capital. Our primary focus is on generating sustainable long-term returns while also making a positive impact on society. You will play a critical role in executing the group-wide exit roadmap, driving capital raises, and ensuring our operating companies are aligned and delivering on value creation objectives.

You will be the right hand operating partner to our incredibly driven and entrepreneurial founder and CEO. You will bring your own entrepreneurial energy, excitement and drive to oversee the operations of our FO group and drive results in our operating companies. Operating in a complex, fast moving, and very ambitious environment, you will lead a number of functions and will balance the requirement to be very hands on, but also be highly strategic while attracting, deploying, retaining top talent and invigorating both corporate strategy and structure.

You will own and operationalize strategic goal setting across the multi-business portfolio ? implementing a unified planning and reporting rhythm that drives clarity, cadence, and performance at all levels. In this long term growth focused role, you will manage hands on, activities which could include investment, M&A, legal, oversight of land development, tax and finance advising, and help acquire and lead operating unit presidents in primarily wholly owned businesses to develop and execute strategic planning, budgeting, strategic delivery, profitability, cash flow, and ultimately, realized value. With a blend of operating and strategic focus you will plan over the horizon and will align and bring to reality the long term vision of our founder, while organizing all elements of the operational structure.

You will also lead M&A activities driving the thinking and strategy for what businesses we acquire and divest and work with powerful internal and external teams to conceptualize, structure and achieve lucrative exits and capital events for portfolio companies. You will oversee and maintain LOI-ready data rooms and buyer engagement strategy to maximize exit visibility. You will participate and in some cases lead liquidity strategies for port companies developing the route to build value and profitability and ensuring the path to liquidity events is optimized for maximum value. Additionally, you will oversee global risk and tax strategy, and manage high-performing external advisors to ensure compliance and optimization across jurisdictions.

A critical area of focus will be land development. You will oversee a dedicated VP of Land Development who is responsible for permitting, budgeting, contractor timelines, and physical site execution across major development projects. You are accountable for ensuring strategic alignment, reporting cadence, and removing roadblocks to progress ? while keeping your focus on broader portfolio execution and value creation. This includes frequent travel to sites, coordination with local partners, budget and permit oversight, and unblocking progress at all costs. The principal brings vision, the group COO will be the vision catcher + implementer, and the Director of Land Development is the executor with visionary capacity. This role must integrate their strengths to orchestrate seamless execution and value creation across the enterprise.


WHO YOU ARE

  • Strategic Operator & Systems Builder: You've served as COO, President, or CEO in a fast-growing, multi-vertical business. You've built the operating systems that scale ? from planning cadences to dashboards and KPI infrastructure. You create clarity and move organizations forward.

  • Loyal Right-Hand to Visionary Founder: You've earned the trust of intense, entrepreneurial founders. You thrive in a high-expectation environment, anticipate needs before they're said, and take full ownership for outcomes.
  • Cross-Functional Executor: You're fluent in finance, operations, people, tax/legal, and business-building ? and have led integrated growth across multiple verticals. You don't just understand the pieces; you align and activate them.
  • Talent Magnet & Culture Builder: You've hired and developed high-performing leaders, know how to judge and upgrade talent, and create environments where A-players thrive. People follow you.
  • Calm in Complexity: You bring poise under pressure. You thrive in chaos, bring order to ambiguity, and are known for calm, decisive leadership in critical moments.

RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Set the 12 - 24 month look ahead for our Group of companies and Family Office, mapping out the quarterly and annual financial and operational goals to drive performance and growth, managing the team to successful completion.
  • Organize, align and drive cross portfolio strategic planning and budgets.
  • Oversee and ensure seamless operation of the Founder.
  • Translate founder vision into scalable execution with minimal reliance on founder involvement.
  • Be the integrator who turns vision into operational reality across the portfolio.
  • Oversee and help manage or guide the family office and family support to ensure seamless global travel and operation synergy between business and life.
  • Be a trusted advisor and operator behind-the-scenes, ensuring peace of mind for the principal.
  • Review and drive business budgets and cash flow and maximize short, medium and long term profitability.
  • Lead the organizational human capital development strategy across the portfolio including talent acquisition, high performance culture and driving goal delivery through business units and functional leaders.
  • Work with business unit leaders to develop liquidity strategies and drive execution to create exponential business value through inside and outside resources.
  • Oversight and leadership of the legal structure, transaction and compliance elements of the group level structure.
  • Work with inside and outside resources to manage the 3rd party investment portfolio for balance, security, and return.
  • Oversee and advance the global tax structure, including a large number of operating and holding companies across multiple international jurisdictions.
  • Organize and coordinate investment board and business unit advisory boards and support integration of business unit leader vision with vision, experience, connections and capability of boards.
  • Manage the current land development projects, evaluating the current development plans, optimizing and challenging budgets and timelines building successful and exponential value in complex markets.
  • Oversee VP Land Development to ensure accountability, alignment, and timely delivery of high-value real estate projects.
  • Provide frequent and detailed updates to principal and prepare and deliver the monthly board reporting package.
  • Set and manage the overall budget and strategy, acquiring and leading a team of senior functional area professionals to adhere to objectives while delivering exemplary service to principals on a global scale.
  • Own and drive weekly execution cadence with clear deliverables across business units in alignment with exit strategy.
  • Build and manage LOI-ready buyer materials and ensure the portfolio is positioned for capital events.
  • Partner with finance to execute capital raises (LOC, equity, secondaries) in service of group growth goals.


WHAT YOU'LL BRING
  • 10 + years Experience in a Private Equity, Family Office, Founder/Entrepreneurial capacities environment with ownership and direct hands on management of diverse companies including strategic planning, global operations, multi organizational budgets, and managing c level executives including operating unit presidents.
  • +10 years with overseeing the budgets and projects across various portfolio businesses including CPG, Technology, and land development ensuring they stay on track and optimizing costs where possible.
  • +5 years in complex international tax structures including planning, execution, and delivery, ideally for a global resident principal.
  • Running or overseeing organization wide talent acquisition including deep hands on experience in building and leading senior teams
  • Experience working with and reporting directly to fast paced hard charging UHNW first gen founder.
  • Overseeing total Assets Under Management or Business portfolio value of 250M+
  • Mergers &Acquisitions experience both acquiring business and operating and exiting existing businesses.
  • Current or past leadership or oversight of the legal function of a group related structure utilizing internal general counsel and specialized external resources.
  • Managing money across portfolios for consistent and secure long term value.
  • Experience building and managing boards that deliver value to the Private Equity group and operating companies.
  • Previous experience and a willingness to oversee a service oriented component of the PE group.
  • Project portfolio management skills, Gantt charts, pert, timelines, official project management and project portfolio management experience.
  • Expert proficiency in Microsoft O365, G Suite, MAC, et al., and implementing technology to make the team more efficient and effective.
  • Emotionally grounded: strong EQ (emotional intelligence) and emotional control; knows how to manage varying personalities and environments; hustle mentality with strong endurance but is self-managing with their time.
  • Strong verifiable track record of the above through CEO/founder/principal references.


COMPENSATION

This role is a business partner level role. You will be compensated with a strong base, and an aggressive bonus plan based on profitability, positive cash flow and growth. You will receive options in companies across the operating portfolio including, in companies, with highly lucrative near term exit objectives.
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