Director of Growth & Operations

Accountabilities:

• Own the full revenue engine, including pipeline generation, sales execution, client onboarding, service delivery quality, and customer retention.

• Lead and manage a distributed global team across multiple time zones, ensuring clear KPIs and consistent performance accountability.

• Drive MRR growth by coordinating sales efforts, optimizing conversion rates, and personally supporting high-value deal closures when required.

• Define and enforce the recurring revenue (MRR-first) commercial model, including pricing, packaging, scope management, and engagement rules.

• Run weekly sales and operations cadences, maintain live performance scorecards, and conduct monthly business reviews with leadership.

• Improve client retention to 95%+ by strengthening onboarding processes, communication frameworks, and escalation pathways.

• Manage team capacity planning to ensure delivery quality is maintained during periods of growth and scaling.

• Build and continuously improve operational infrastructure, including SOPs, templates, workflows, and process documentation.

• Maintain financial visibility through 13-week cash flow forecasting and proactively identify business risks.

• Track, analyze, and improve core business KPIs including MRR growth, close rates, delivery performance, and operational efficiency.

Requirements:

• Proven experience building and scaling a services business from early stage to $1M-$5M revenue level.

• Strong background managing both commercial growth (sales, pricing, pipeline) and operational execution (delivery, staffing, retention).

• Direct experience with recurring revenue service models such as bookkeeping, accounting, fractional CFO services, IT managed services, or similar industries.

• Demonstrated success improving client retention through structured onboarding, clearer scoping, and escalation management.

• Experience leading distributed or global teams with strong KPI-driven performance management.

• Strong analytical mindset with a data-driven approach to decision-making and performance tracking.

• Prior experience working in remote-first environments and using collaboration tools such as Slack, Zoom, ClickUp, and Google Workspace.

• Strong ability to operate independently in fast-paced, high-ownership environments with minimal structure.

• Experience working with US or UK-based clients or organizations is required.

• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

Benefits:

• Competitive monthly compensation aligned with senior leadership responsibilities.

• Fully remote role with global team collaboration across multiple time zones.

• Opportunity to directly own and shape the transformation of a business into a scalable MRR-driven model.

• High autonomy and ownership in a lean, fast-moving environment.

• Direct reporting line to company ownership with strong strategic influence.

• Exposure to international clients and high-growth service business models.

• Opportunity to build systems, processes, and infrastructure from the ground up.

• Performance-driven culture focused on results, accountability, and measurable impact.

• Long-term growth potential based on business expansion and leadership contribution.

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