PURSUIT SOFTWARE
Chief Operating Officer
New York City · Exec
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About the role
- Applications submitted through this portal will not be monitored.
- We've also pioneered the Pursuit Bond, an innovative outcomes-based financing model that aligns investor returns with long-term economic mobility, allowing us to scale impact in a financially sustainable way.
- Now, as AI reshapes the global economy, Pursuit is pioneering the nation's premier AI-Native workforce pipeline.
Responsibilities
- More than building systems, they will cultivate a culture of accountability and high performance, aligning elite teams around shared standards while fiercely protecting the values that brought us here.
- Serve as key organizational leader who helps lead strategic decisions and embeds operational rigor and accelerates enterprise-wide execution across all functions and in particular, Program, Go-To-Market Job Placement, Partnerships, Growth and Earned Revenue.
- Partner with the CEO and other leaders on enterprise-wide workforce planning, capacity building, and talent scaling.
- Organizational Design & Scale
- Drive financial leadership in partnership with the VP of Finance, overseeing multi-year budgeting, resource allocation, financial modeling, and sound fiscal governance across all departments.
- Champion talent acquisition, HR infrastructure, and human capital strategy alongside the VP of People to attract, retain, and develop world-class teams.
- You will directly manage the VP of Finance, VP of People, General Counsel, Head of AI implementation, Head of Facilities and Operations and more.
- Dedicated time to build in AI and develop your own AI skills
- PLEASE NOTE: We are partnering with On-Ramps to manage hiring for this role.
Requirements
- Required Skills and Experience
- 8-12 years of experience in business operations or leadership operations roles, ideally spanning both a strategy/consulting environment and a hands-on operating role inside a growing company or organization.
Compensation
- The salary range for this role is $300,000 - $330,000, inclusive of base and bonus and a full benefits package.
- The compensation above reflects the expectations laid out in this job description
- however, we are often open to a wide variety of profiles and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this posting. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated to you as a candidate.
Benefits
- Full benefits package including vision and dental
- Unlimited PTO, plus an all-Pursuit summer break (last week of August) and a week-long holiday break (last week of December)
- Equity at Pursuit
- Design and maintain the dashboards and KPI architecture that give the CEO, leadership team, and Board a real-time, accurate view of organizational health.
- Cultivate and safeguard Pursuit's organizational culture, fostering an environment of accountability, continuous learning, high performance, and mission alignment.
- Hybrid and flexible work policy, as described above
Company info
- We are transforming how economic opportunity works at scale through a rigorous, full-funnel training model combining in-person collaborative learning, real-time curriculum adaptation, and deep employer integration.
- We are seeking a Chief Operating Officer (COO) to serve as our chief architect of operational excellence.
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