Oxeon Partners

Oxeon Partners

Search Operations Manager

United States · Exec

Work authorization required$56k-$60kDetected 66 days ago
Project ManagementCRMSalesBusiness DevelopmentPipeline ManagementLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • The best operators don't just keep businesses running - they shape how they grow.
  • It's a role for someone who loves solving complex operational challenges, influencing senior stakeholders, and bringing structure and clarity to fast-moving environments.
  • The Search Operations Manager serves as the central strategic driver and operational anchor for Oxeon's search practice.

Responsibilities

  • As the Search Operations Manager, you will directly own the operational backbone of our firm across these critical pillars:
  • Pipeline & Retainer Stewardship: Manage the top-of-funnel Business Development (BD) sales pipeline in our CRM (Recruiterflow). Review contract terms, draft new client retainers, and advise partners on fee structures to ensure data accuracy and profitability.
  • Centralized Search Staffing: Serve as the central authority for project resource allocation. Holistically evaluate team capacity, individual performance metrics, and partner dynamics to efficiently staff 56-60 active concurrent searches.
  • Process Architecture & Tech: Act as a dedicated system-builder. Design, scale, and drive the firm-wide adoption of repeatable operational workflows and emerging AI tools to reduce structural friction.
  • Quality Assurance: Lead Oxeon's post-search quality review and Net Promoter Score (NPS) processes, transforming client feedback into continuous operational improvements.
  • At Oxeon, the Search Operations Manager sits at the center of the business, helping guide how we scale our search practice, deploy talent, prioritize opportunities, and support firm-wide growth.
  • You will function as a vital strategic advisor to firm leadership, ensuring that firm-wide resources-talent, capacity, and profitability-are optimized to drive organizational growth.
  • This role is essential for transforming complex operational data into actionable insights, serving as a critical partner to the Head of Search Operations, the Executive Leadership Team, and the Finance and People teams.
  • Our approach combines data, deep networks, and consultative thought partnership to build leadership teams that truly move the needle.
  • Manage the top-of-funnel Business Development (BD) sales pipeline in our CRM (Recruiterflow).

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree required.
  • Ability to establish clear professional boundaries and diplomatically navigate sensitive staffing and performance conversations.
  • Operates with an entrepreneurial mindset, balancing immediate, fast-paced commercial demands ("fire drills") with the deliberate focus required to build long-term scalable processes.

Nice to have

  • Please apply on our Careers Page and include a brief note sharing your professional journey, operational philosophy, and why you are excited about this role.
  • We look forward to hearing your story.
  • Oxeon is interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States
  • We're an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.

Skills

  • Act as a dedicated system-builder.

Compensation

  • $123,900 - $154,800
  • Target Annual Bonus: 12%
  • $113,500 - $141,900
  • $103,200 - $129,000
  • Please apply on our Careers Page and include a brief note sharing your professional journey, operational philosophy, and why you are excited about this role.
  • We look forward to hearing your story.
  • Opportunity to give back: Volunteer opportunities and a generous annual philanthropic match program.
  • Salary Expectations

Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical and dental insurance for you and your family, competitive base pay with bonus potential, paid parental leave, 401(k), and a vibrant open-office environment.
  • Search Health Analysis: Monitor the velocity and performance patterns of our ~210 annual searches.
  • Oxeon utilizes a zone-based compensation structure to ensure competitive market rates and maintain our strict commitment to pay equity.
  • ​​Oxeon is committed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in both our internal operations and across our external business and network.

Company info

  • Looking For
  • We recognize that excellent operations leaders come from diverse professional backgrounds. We are specifically seeking candidates who map to one of the following profiles:
  • Chief of Staff Profile: 3-5 years of experience in a Chief of Staff, Business Operations, or cross-functional execution role within a high-growth, fast-paced environment (such as a venture studio, healthcare startup, or scaling enterprise).
  • Professional Services Profile: 5-7 years of experience steering staffing, resource allocation, revenue operations, or project management within a highly consultative, fast-paced client services environment (e.g., Management Consulting, Law, Executive Search, or Creative Agencies).
  • We recognize that excellent operations leaders come from diverse professional backgrounds.
  • We are specifically seeking candidates who map to one of the following profiles:
  • Education: Bachelor's Degree required.
  • Core Competencies & Attributes
  • Leading Through Influence: Proven ability to drive alignment, draw clear lines in the sand, and influence senior partners without relying on formal hierarchical authority.
  • Kind Firmness & High EQ: Exceptional emotional intelligence, situational awareness, and organizational empathy. Ability to establish clear professional boundaries and diplomatically navigate sensitive staffing and performance conversations.
  • Nuanced Communication: Masterful at translating complex pipeline data into clear, persuasive executive narratives, and comfortable providing data-backed counsel and constructive pushback to executive-level leaders.
  • Thriving in Ambiguity: Operates with an entrepreneurial mindset, balancing immediate, fast-paced commercial demands ("fire drills") with the deliberate focus required to build long-term scalable processes.
  • Commitment to Growth: We are seeking an individual looking to plant deep roots in this role and make a commitment to optimizing Oxeon's operational backbone.
  • Why You'll Love Working Here

Equal opportunity

  • equal opportunity employer committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • on is interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States; however, we are not able to sponsor visas at this time
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