Job Description
Mid-size California MSP seeks COO/General Manager to help achieve the next level of growth
As GM/COO you will be empowered and expected to work alongside the CEO and drive revenue, profitability, and sales growth goals through engineering dominance, operational excellence, and immaculate leadership practices. You’ll dig-in as a motivational leader and elevate all staff to A-player standards, managing the team through this positive transition, and ensuring the current culture of excellence and career satisfaction persists through this evolution towards a faster, more responsive, and more profitable company.
The business holds strong value and growth potential, built on a culture of teamwork and excellence that has been carefully fostered over many years. Our experienced technical leaders and high-caliber engineering team serve a sophisticated market most MSPs cannot reach. With recurring revenue at 80% and contract sizes 3-5x the national average, it operates efficiency with mature processes, comprehensive documentation, and automation. Over four decades, it has integrated best practices from top industry models, maintaining exceptionally low client and employee churn on a well developed tech stack.
The company is currently primed for explosive growth. With a fresh and energized owner and CEO skilled in demand generation and market expansion, the stage is set for an operational leader to take the reins on execution. After two years of meticulous preparation, everything is in place—systems, strategy, and momentum. The final step? Bringing in the right leader to streamline operations, accelerate growth, and drive the next phase of success.
Mandatory Requirements
Management:
- Proven track record of managing 20+ people
- Leadership experience (CEO, COO/GM, VP) of an MSP with one or more M&A transactions
- Knowledge and experience implementing and using cutting edge, metrics-based management systems (Primarily ScalePad)
- History of success leading one or more organizations through near term change, long term evolution, and rapid revenue growth
- Free the CEO of unnecessary operational time requirements – remove all obstacles
Technical:
- Manage any person, any engineer at any level in any IT discipline, according to CA law
- Ability to go onsite to a client’s location to solve technical problems (as a last line of defense)
- Be able to effectively and efficiently manage outsourced technical partners at any level and in any category of IT
- ConnectWise, ScalePad/BrightGauge, EOS (Strety/Ninety), Microsoft365/Azure/Intune, Datto, Sophos, networking, on prem compute
- Analyze tickets and timecards individually and company-wide to identify opportunities for efficiency gains and maximum profitability
Compensation: Base salary commensurate with skills, track record, and experience plus significant additional compensation awarded for achievement of growth goals, liquidity event, or acquisition.
Location: Coastal California - Orange County CA through San Luis Obispo County CA, must be in region, relocation assistance considered.
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