Group COO / Operating Partner

ABOUT US

Elevation Capital is a group of internationally impactful companies spanning CPG, hospitality, technology, real estate, non-profit and venture funding. Run by a highly entrepreneurial self made founder and a team of highly capable executives across business units, the business operates globally with interests in US, Canada, Europe and the Caribbean. With wholly owned companies in a range of growth stages and an ever expanding investment portfolio, this group serves a global vision to create an evolved world where humanity serves our highest purpose. Our mission is to create and deploy capital for a better world.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As Group COO / Operating Partner in our family office group, you'll be managing a diversified portfolio of investments, primarily wholly owned operational companies in real estate manufacturing, technology, private equity, and venture capital. Our primary focus is on generating sustainable long-term returns while making a positive impact on society. You'll play a critical role in executing the group-wide exit roadmap, driving capital raises, and ensuring our operating companies are aligned and delivering on value creation objectives.

You'll be the right hand operating partner to our incredibly driven and entrepreneurial founder and CEO. You'll bring your own entrepreneurial energy, excitement and drive to oversee the operations of our FO group and drive results in our operating companies. Operating in a complex, fast moving, and very ambitious environment, you'll lead a number of functions and will balance the requirement to be very hands on, but also be highly strategic while attracting, deploying, retaining top talent and invigorating both corporate strategy and structure.

You'll own and operationalize strategic goal setting across the multi-business portfolio – implementing a unified planning and reporting rhythm that drives clarity, cadence, and performance at all levels. In this long term growth focused role, you'll manage hands on, activities which could include investment, M&A, legal, oversight of land development, tax and finance advising, and help acquire and lead operating unit presidents in primarily wholly owned businesses to develop and execute strategic planning, budgeting, strategic delivery, profitability, cash flow, and ultimately, realized value. With a blend of operating and strategic focus, you'll plan over the horizon and will align and bring to reality the long term vision of our founder, while organizing all elements of the operational structure.

You'll lead M&A activities driving the thinking and strategy for what businesses we acquire and divest and work with powerful internal and external teams to conceptualize, structure and achieve lucrative exits and capital events for portfolio companies. You'll oversee and maintain LOI-ready data rooms and buyer engagement strategy to maximize exit visibility. You'll participate and in some cases lead liquidity strategies for port companies developing the route to build value and profitability and ensuring the path to liquidity events is optimized for maximum value. Additionally, you'll oversee global risk and tax strategy, and manage high-performing external advisors to ensure compliance and optimization across jurisdictions.

Land development is a critical focus area. You'll oversee a VP of Land Development who is responsible for permitting, budgeting, contractor timelines, and physical site execution across major development projects. You're accountable for ensuring strategic alignment, reporting cadence, and removing roadblocks to progress while keeping your focus on broader portfolio execution and value creation. This includes frequent travel to sites, coordination with local partners, budget and permit oversight, and unblocking progress. The principal brings vision, the Group COO will be the vision catcher + implementer, and the VP of Land Development is the executor with visionary capacity. This role must integrate their strengths to orchestrate seamless execution and value creation across the enterprise.

WHO YOU ARE

• Strategic Operator & Systems Builder: You’ve served as COO, President, or CEO in a fast-growing, multi-vertical business. You’ve built the operating systems that scale from planning cadences to dashboards and KPI infrastructure. You create clarity and move organizations forward
• Loyal Right-Hand to Visionary Founder: You’ve earned the trust of intense, entrepreneurial founders. You thrive in a high-expectation environment, anticipate needs before they’re said, and take full ownership for outcomes
• Cross-Functional Executor: You’re fluent in finance, operations, people, tax/legal, and business-building and have led integrated growth across multiple verticals. You don’t just understand the pieces; you align and activate them
• Talent Magnet & Culture Builder: You’ve hired and developed high-performing leaders, know how to judge and upgrade talent, and create environments where A-players thrive. People follow you
• Calm in Complexity: You bring poise under pressure. You thrive in chaos, bring order to ambiguity, and are known for calm, decisive leadership in critical moments

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Set the 12-24 month look ahead for our Group of companies and Family Office, mapping out quarterly and annual financial and operational goals to drive performance and growth, managing the team to successful completion
• Organize, align and drive cross portfolio strategic planning and budgets
• Oversee and ensure seamless operation of the Founder
• Translate founder vision into scalable execution with minimal reliance on founder involvement
• Be the integrator who turns vision into operational reality across the portfolio
• Oversee and help manage the family office and family support to ensure seamless global travel and operation synergy between business and life
• Be a trusted advisor and operator behind-the-scenes, ensuring peace of mind for the principal
• Review and drive business budgets and cash flow and maximize short, medium and long term profitability
• Lead organizational human capital development strategy across the portfolio including talent acquisition, high performance culture and driving goal delivery through business units and functional leaders
• Work with business unit leaders to develop liquidity strategies and drive execution to create exponential business value
• Oversight and leadership of the legal structure, transaction and compliance elements of the group level structure
• Manage 3rd party investment portfolio for balance, security, and return
• Oversee and advance the global tax structure, including a large number of operating and holding companies across multiple international jurisdictions
• Coordinate boards and align unit leader vision with board insight, experience, and networks
• Manage current land development projects, evaluating development plans, optimizing and challenging budgets and timelines, building successful and exponential value in complex markets
• Oversee VP Land Development to ensure accountability, alignment, and timely delivery of high-value real estate projects
• Provide frequent and detailed updates to principal and prepare and deliver monthly board reporting package
• Manage overall budget and strategy, acquiring and leading a team of senior functional area professionals to adhere to objectives while delivering exemplary service to principals on a global scale
• Own and drive weekly execution cadence with clear deliverables across business units in alignment with exit strategy
• Build and manage LOI-ready buyer materials and ensure portfolio is positioned for capital events
• Partner with finance to execute capital raises (LOC, equity, secondaries) in service of group growth goals

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

• 10+ years experience in a Private Equity, Family Office, Founder/Entrepreneurial environment with ownership and direct hands-on management of diverse companies including strategic planning, global operations, multi-organizational budgets, and managing C level executives including operating unit presidents
• 10+ years overseeing budgets and projects across portfolio businesses including CPG, Technology and land development ensuring they stay on track and optimizing costs
• 5+ years in complex international tax structures including planning, execution, and delivery, ideally for a global resident principal
• Overseeing organization wide talent acquisition including hands on experience building and leading senior teams
• Experience reporting directly to fast paced hard charging UHNW first gen founder
• Overseeing total AUM or Business portfolio value of 250M+
• M&A experience both acquiring business and operating and exiting existing businesses
• Leadership / oversight of the legal function of a group related structure utilizing internal general counsel and specialized external resources
• Managing money across portfolios for consistent and secure long term value
• Experience building and managing boards that deliver value to the PE group and operating companies
• Previous experience and a willingness to oversee a service oriented component of the PE group
• Strong project portfolio management skills, including Gantt, PERT, and timeline planning
• Expert proficiency in Microsoft O365, G Suite, MAC, et al., and leveraging technology to enhance team efficiency
• Emotionally grounded: strong EQ and emotional control; know how to manage varying personalities and environments; hustle mentality with strong endurance but self-managing with your time
• Strong verifiable track record of the above through CEO/founder/principal references