Aardvark Studios

Aardvark Studios

Chief Operating Officer

Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, United States · Exec

Sponsorship not specified$25k-$50kDetected 25 days ago
LeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • The opportunity is to help scale a serious independent company without stripping away the creativity, speed, energy and customer focus that made it successful.

Responsibilities

  • clarify the organizational structure and decision rights; understand the economics and operational drivers of the business; identify the most important systems and processes that need to improve; establish useful operating rhythms, dashboards and accountability; build a practical roadmap for scalable growth.
  • This includes: program management, production and fabrication, tour operations, field execution, manage our facilities, information technology, and operational systems, processes and accountability.
  • The COO will work directly with the founder and leadership team, stay close to the work and have meaningful authority to make decisions, develop people, improve systems, restructure departments and drive results.
  • This is an opportunity to lead talented people, do incredible work and help scale one of the last great independent experiential marketing companies without losing the creativity, energy and care that made it successful.
  • We design them.
  • We staff, operate and maintain them.
  • Our capabilities include creative design, design engineering, custom fabrication, technology integration, program management, nationwide tour operations, field execution, maintenance, warehousing and fleet operations.
  • We are now looking for an exceptional Chief Operating Officer to help lead the next stage of our growth.
  • The Opportunity The COO will lead everything that happens after the sale.
  • program management, production and fabrication, tour operations, field execution, manage our facilities, information technology, and operational systems, processes and accountability.

Requirements

  • Aardvark is a hands-on company and the COO must be a hands-on leader.
  • Leadership Characteristics Proven.
  • You have already produced results in an operation with real complexity, pressure and accountability.
  • You know how to solve problems, work through ambiguity and make progress without waiting for perfect conditions.
  • The COO must be a true integrator.

Compensation

  • $245,000 - $285,000, depending on experience Meaningful performance-based bonus opportunity Benefits Relocation assistance when appropriate Location and Commitment This is an in-person leadership role based at our headquarters in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

Benefits

  • You know how to take a vision, turn it into a practical plan, align people around it and drive it through execution.

Company info

  • Looking For This is not a first-time COO role.
  • We are looking for a proven operating leader who has already done this successfully.
  • You have led a complex operation.
  • You have built and developed teams, installed operating systems, improved performance and produced measurable results that you can clearly demonstrate.
  • You do not need to come directly from the experiential marketing world, but it helps.
  • You do need to understand complex, project-based work involving job costing, labor planning and productivity, production schedules, quality and attention to detail, capacity and resource planning, demanding clients, multiple projects moving simultaneously, deadlines that do not move, and execution in both controlled and unpredictable environments.
  • You understand that good operations are not created through meetings, slogans or additional layers of management.
  • They are created through clear expectations, strong people, useful information, disciplined follow-through and consistent accountability.
  • The Founder and COO Partnership Aardvark was built by a visionary founder who moves quickly, sees opportunities and generates ideas.
  • You bring focus, discipline and accountability without slowing down the creativity and speed that make Aardvark special.
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