[Hiring] Executive Operations Leader @Saratech

Role Description

We are seeking an accomplished executive leader with broad operational, financial, and strategic experience. This individual will help guide business performance, support growth initiatives, strengthen organizational capabilities, and lead cross-functional execution in a dynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Business & Operational Leadership
  • Provide executive leadership across business operations and key functional areas.
  • Translate organizational priorities into practical operating plans, goals, and performance measures.
  • Improve processes, organizational effectiveness, scalability, and accountability.
  • Partner with functional leaders to ensure alignment and effective execution.
• Financial & P&L Management
  • Manage or support full P&L responsibility, including revenue, profitability, budgeting, forecasting, and resource allocation.
  • Monitor business performance and use financial and operational data to guide decisions.
  • Identify opportunities to improve growth, margins, cash flow, and overall business performance.
• Growth & Strategic Initiatives
  • Contribute to the development and execution of long-term growth strategies.
  • Evaluate new markets, partnerships, business models, and investment opportunities.
  • Support expansion into new domestic and international markets.
  • Build relationships with customers, partners, and other key stakeholders.
• Program & Project Management
  • Experience building, directing and managing enterprise architecture and implementation teams with scope to include PLM, Digital Threats, and Manufacturing.
  • Provide executive guidance for program and project management disciplines, ensuring strategic initiatives are clearly scoped, prioritized, resourced, and executed with accountability.
  • Establish scalable operating frameworks, governance models, and cross-functional review rhythms that improve visibility, decision-making, and execution speed.
  • Identify operational bottlenecks and lead process improvements that increase efficiency, reduce friction, and support growth across teams, business units, and customer-facing functions.
• Product & Market Strategy
  • AI development and implementation with application to engineering and PLM processes.
  • Support product, service, or solution strategy based on customer needs and market opportunities.
  • Lead or contribute to the development and launch of new offerings.
  • Coordinate with sales, marketing, product, engineering, finance, and operations to support successful commercialization.
  • Review market feedback and business results to guide portfolio and investment decisions.
• People & Organizational Leadership
  • Build and direct international team with project management, PLM and engineering responsibilities.
  • Build, develop, and mentor high-performing teams and leaders.
  • Promote a culture of collaboration, accountability, integrity, innovation, and customer focus.
  • Lead effectively through growth, change, and organizational transformation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, operations, finance, or a related field.
• Significant progressive leadership experience in operations, general management, or business leadership.
• Demonstrated experience managing P&L performance and delivering measurable business results.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and complex strategic initiatives.
• Strong financial, analytical, communication, negotiation, and decision-making capabilities.
• Experience developing strategy and translating it into effective execution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree such as an MBA or a related graduate degree.
• Experience with mergers, acquisitions, and post-acquisition integration.
• Experience with international expansion, global operations, or cross-border business development.
• Experience developing product strategy and bringing products, services, or solutions to market.
• Bilingual or multilingual capabilities.
• Experience in a growth-oriented, acquisitive, or evolving organization.

Leadership Profile

• Strategic, practical, and execution-oriented.
• Financially disciplined and comfortable making decisions with incomplete information.
• Collaborative, adaptable, and effective across multiple functions and levels of an organization.
• Able to balance growth, profitability, customer needs, and organizational capacity.
• Committed to developing people and building sustainable long-term value.

Benefits

• Insurance: All full-time regular employees (and dependents) are eligible to get medical, dental, vision coverage. Employees also can buy up on benefits like FSA, HSA, Life insurance, long and short-term disability.
• Retirement Plan: All employees can enroll in the company's 401k with company matching.
• Paid Time Off: All full-time regular exempt employees are eligible for our Discretionary Time Off vacation policy after 90 days from their start date. Discretionary Time Off plan is a non-accrual plan for employees. All full-time regular non-exempt employees are eligible for our Paid Time Off Plan policy after 90 days, Paid Time Off plan is an 3.33 hours accrual per pay period for employees.
• Paid Holidays: All full-time employees will receive 8 paid holidays per year. Full-time non-exempt employees receive an extra floater holiday per year.
• Paid Sick time: All full-time employees will receive 32 sick hours per year. Part-time employees will receive 24 hours or minimum sick time required by the state.