Our client is a fast growing AI platform reshaping how large organizations deliver training, transforming experiential learning at scale for higher education, healthcare, and life sciences. Founded five years ago by a physician researcher and an AI expert with a background in medical imaging, the company built its entire technology stack in house, giving it a speed and quality advantage that pure software competitors cannot match. With a growing footprint across North America, the UK, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and expanding into Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore, the company is on a mission to put every person undergoing active professional training onto its platform. To help fuel that growth, they are looking for an Associate Account Executive to join their Austin, Texas sales team.

Position Overview

This is a rare opportunity for an early career professional to build a sales career at the ground floor of a category defining company. As an Associate Account Executive, you will be trained directly by leadership on a proven sales motion targeting upper mid market and lower enterprise accounts, giving you a foundation that most entry level roles cannot offer. You will have direct visibility with the founders, who are actively building out the Austin office and investing in the people who join early. Your work will center on bringing in new business and expanding existing accounts, meaning your results will be visible and will directly shape the trajectory of the company as it scales. For someone who is hungry to learn, competitive by nature, and wants to be part of something being built rather than joining something already built, this role offers uncommon speed of growth and responsibility. This is an entry-level sales role and a recent graduate ready to start their career is the ideal candidate.

Position Responsibilities

Identify, prospect, and close new accounts across higher education, healthcare, and life sciences organizations, with a primary focus on new business generation

Grow and expand relationships within an existing client base to drive account growth

Build creative outbound strategies to reach and engage new potential clients

Manage the full sales cycle from initial outreach through close, with support and coaching from company leadership

Maintain fast, clear, and consistent communication with prospects, clients, and internal team members

Collaborate closely with the operations team to ensure a smooth handoff and client experience post sale

Represent the company’s platform and value proposition clearly and confidently to decision makers across multiple industries

Track activity and pipeline consistently to support accurate forecasting and decision making

Continuously seek feedback and coaching to improve sales technique and performance

Position Qualifications

Required

A demonstrated track record of success in competitive environments, such as collegiate athletics, campus leadership, or building something of your own

A high level of energy, work ethic, and drive, with a genuine hunger to learn and grow quickly

Strong communication skills with the ability to build rapport and trust quickly with new people

Comfort with creative, resourceful prospecting and a willingness to find nontraditional ways to reach potential clients

Ability to work full time from the company’s Austin, Texas office

Preferred

Experience in a leadership role during college, such as a team captain, club president, or fraternity or sorority leadership position

A background in competitive athletics or entrepreneurship, such as starting or running a small business

Prior involvement in campus organizations that required networking, recruiting, or persuasion

A combination of education and experience that demonstrates equivalent readiness for a fast paced sales environment

If you are ready to work hard, learn fast, and help build something meaningful from the ground up, we would love to hear from you. You must be able to work in office in Austin. The company offers a strong base salary and benefits – this is not a commission-only sales role. Apply now and a member of Talentfoot’s recruitment team will be in touch should your background, energy, and drive match what our client is looking for.

Company Overview

A nonprofit research and philanthropic institution recognized for its long-standing commitment to scientific discovery is investing in a newly formed function dedicated to embedding AI into how the organization operates day to day. This team sits close to the executive suite, reporting through senior leadership, which reflects the strategic weight placed on this work. The culture favors integration over isolation. Developers here are woven into delivery teams alongside engineers, architects, and business partners, rather than siloed off to work on narrow pieces of a larger puzzle. As this function scales, it is building out the team that will define how AI moves from idea to production across the organization.

Position Overview

This is a rare opportunity to help stand up a brand new AI function from the ground up, with direct visibility to executive leadership and a mandate to change how a respected research institution operates. First, the scope is genuinely full lifecycle: model selection, evaluation design, deployment, and operations all fall under one seat, not split across teams. Second, the impact is immediate and visible, since the systems built here will be adopted across administrative and operational functions organization-wide. Third, the growth trajectory is real. The team is expanding beyond this initial hiring round, and early members will shape the patterns, architecture, and culture the function scales on.

Position Responsibilities

• Design and build production AI systems embedded within a delivery team, working alongside engineers, architects, and business partners to ship collaboratively rather than in isolation.
• Select the right technical approach for each problem, whether that means a large language model with retrieval, a gradient boosted tree, or a well featured regression model, and be able to defend that choice with sound reasoning.
• Build within established reference architectures and shared engineering patterns, contributing improvements back to the team when gaps are identified.
• Design evaluation methodology before any system reaches production, covering precision, recall, calibration, drift, business outcome metrics, and A/B testing where appropriate.
• Own deployment and operations end to end, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and cost, with production considerations built in from the first commit.
• Partner with receiving teams on handoff, including documentation, runbooks, on call posture, and ownership transition, so systems remain operable by others.
• Translate technical trade-offs for business stakeholders while also communicating at a peer level with engineering teams, moving fluidly between both audiences.

Position Qualifications

Required:

• A demonstrated track record of shipping production enterprise systems, with clear ownership of outcomes from design through operation.
• 6 or more years of hands-on software engineering experience, including at least 3 years building and shipping production machine learning or deep learning systems, with at least 2 years of that experience beyond generative AI specifically.
• Strong proficiency in Java and/or Python.
• Hands-on experience with classical machine learning techniques (gradient boosting, regression, clustering, tree based methods, dimensionality reduction) as well as deep learning.
• Experience designing evaluation frameworks for production ML systems, including offline and online evaluation, A/B testing, and statistical inference.
• Fluency with infrastructure as code (Terraform or comparable), container orchestration, and CI/CD, with the ability to work across AWS, Azure, and GCP without dependence on a single provider.
• Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks such as LangGraph or Strands.

Preferred:

• Experience with front end frameworks such as React, for building end to end user facing AI features.
• Production experience with vector databases, retrieval systems, or knowledge graphs.
• Familiarity with MLOps tooling, including model registries, feature stores, or training pipeline orchestration.
• Prior experience in research, academic, or mission driven institutional environments.
• Background as a forward deployed engineer or solutions engineer, comfortable being client facing while owning technical delivery.

Compensation Range: $145,000 – $200,000 plus a competitive benefits package.

Apply now and a member of Talentfoot’s recruitment team will be in touch should your track record of success, experience, skills, and qualifications match our client’s requirements.

Talentfoot Overview

Talentfoot Executive Search specializes in future proofing organizations by securing forward-thinking leaders across sales, marketing, eCommerce, product, data, operations, finance, and technology with a track record of accelerating growth, innovation, and profitability. Since 2010, we’ve partnered with more than 2,500 companies and lead the industry with a 98% client success rate. Learn more at Talentfoot.com

Great opportunity to get in with a growing company! New PE-backed ownership, reporting directly into the President with a dotted line into the Controller at the PE level. Please review the details and reach out if you are interested in learning more!

Responsibilities

• Manage the full-cycle accounting process including accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, and bank reconciliations.
• Own the month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting for The Company, including recons for all balance sheet accounts.
• Work with the PE Corporate Controller to own the monthly financial statements, variance analyses, and management reporting packages for the President.
• Partner with the President to develop annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and ad hoc financial analyses that support business decision-making.
• Monitor and manage working capital and cash flow, including oversight of collections, vendor payment timing, and cash positioning.
• Manage multi-state sales tax compliance, including nexus monitoring, filings, and coordination with external tax advisors.
• Support the PE’s overall transition from QuickBooks Enterprise to Microsoft Dynamics during 2026 under supervision and direction of the PE Controller and project manager.
• Supervise and develop the accounting staff, ensuring workload coverage, cross-training, and professional growth.
• Support the PE Controller during external audit and tax prep, preparing schedules and supporting documentation for the The Company business.
• Support the PE’s consolidated reporting requirements and assist with onboarding acquired companies from time to time onto standardized accounting processes.

Required Experience

• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including hands-on involvement in the full accounting cycle (AP, AR, GL, close).
• Experience preparing financial statements, budgets, and forecasts in a small-to-mid-size business environment.
• Working knowledge of sales tax compliance across multiple states.
• Experience with ERP systems; familiarity with QuickBooks Enterprise and/or Microsoft Dynamics a plus.
• Prior supervisory experience — managing and developing at least one direct report.
• Strong Excel skills and comfort working with large data sets.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate financial data into actionable insights for non-financial stakeholders.
• Self-starter who can work independently and prioritize competing demands in a fast-paced environment.

“Great to have” Qualifications

• Experience in a distribution, e-commerce, or wholesale business.
• Exposure to a private equity-backed or acquisition-oriented environment.
• Experience with ERP implementations or migrations.
• Familiarity with the HVAC, mechanical, or electrical trades industry.

If you’re ready to make an impact and take your career to the next level, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and a member of Talentfoot’s recruitment team will be in touch should your track record of success, experience, skills and qualifications match our client’s requirements.

Digital Performance Analyst

Performance Analytics Team | Chicago, IL | Hybrid (In Office Schedule) | Early Career

Company Overview

Our client is a performance marketing agency rewriting how brands invest in growth, replacing backward looking reporting with forecasting that predicts revenue before a single dollar is spent. Powered by more than three decades of performance first experience, over $100 million in media managed, and a proprietary AI powered predictive intelligence platform, the firm helps national brands plan, buy, and optimize across media, TV, and creative with a level of confidence few agencies can match. The team pairs the agility of an independent, privately held shop with analytical firepower usually found only at much larger organizations, and its culture rewards curiosity, critical thinking, and people who question the data rather than take it at face value. With a client retention rate north of 90 percent and an analytics practice at the center of its next chapter of growth, the company is looking for a Digital Performance Analyst to help turn complex cross channel data into the insights that keep clients ahead of their markets.

Position Overview

This is a rare early career opportunity to build deep analytics expertise fast, working shoulder to shoulder with the VP of Performance Analytics on the agency’s flagship account from day one. You will own the digital performance story for your accounts across paid search, paid social, programmatic, and streaming video, then grow into the cross channel and predictive measurement work, including attribution, incrementality, and marketing mix modeling, that powers the firm’s forecasting platform. It is a highly visible seat: your analysis will directly shape how multi million dollar media budgets are allocated, and your recommendations will be presented to clients and senior internal teams, giving you exposure and impact most analysts wait years to earn. As automation and AI take over routine reporting, this role is built for someone who wants to think, not just pull numbers, with a clear runway to become a cross channel and predictive measurement expert as the analytics practice scales.

Position Responsibilities

• Own the digital performance analysis and reporting for assigned accounts across Google Ads, Meta, Microsoft Ads, and DV360 or other DSPs, contributing to the broader cross channel view.
• Build and QA dashboards for digital KPIs (CPA, ROAS, CTR, CVR, assisted conversions) and lead generation metrics such as leads, calls, and enrollments.
• Keep tracking and data integrity clean so the data feeding the predictive platform holds up, flagging quality issues and validating tracking with the media and web teams.
• Explore and validate data using SQL and AI assisted tools, applying judgment to question and confirm model outputs rather than accepting them at face value.
• Turn data into clear, client ready stories and recommendations, presenting credibly to clients and to internal media and account teams.
• Design and interpret audience, creative, landing page, and conversion tests.
• Support attribution and incrementality work, growing into TV, call tracking, and marketing mix modeling over time.

Position Qualifications

Required:

• A track record of turning data into insights and clear recommendations, ideally within a fast paced agency or client environment (strong internship experience counts).
• One to three years of experience in digital marketing analytics or business analytics.
• Hands on experience across the major ad platforms, Google Ads at minimum, plus exposure to Meta Ads, Microsoft Ads, DV360, or other DSPs.
• Ability to build and QA dashboards in a modern BI tool (Tableau, Looker, or Power BI) and to explore and validate data with SQL and AI assisted tools.
• Familiarity with web analytics (GA4 or Adobe) and tag or pixel tracking (Google Tag Manager, Floodlight, Meta Pixel).
• Strong client facing communication, with the ability to translate data into clear stories for non technical audiences, plus the curiosity and critical thinking to question and validate AI and model outputs.
• Authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship and able to work a hybrid schedule from the Chicago office.

Preferred:

• A digital media platform expert looking to move into analytics, for example someone who ran paid media at a smaller shop and built their own reporting.
• Interest in predictive, forward looking measurement such as marketing mix modeling, incrementality, and forecasting.
• Exposure to cross channel and offline measurement, including linear or connected TV and call tracking, plus A/B and landing page testing.
• Comfort using AI and agentic tools to speed analysis, with basic version control (Git) habits.
• An undergraduate degree in marketing, business analytics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent hands on experience.

Call to Action

If you are ready to make an impact and take your career to the next level, we would love to hear from you. Apply now and a member of Talentfoot’s recruitment team will be in touch should your track record of success, experience, skills and qualifications match our client’s requirements.

Talentfoot Overview

Talentfoot Executive Search specializes in future proofing organizations by securing forward thinking leaders across sales, marketing, eCommerce, product, data, operations, finance, and technology with a track record of accelerating growth, innovation and profitability. Since 2010, we have partnered with more than 2,500 companies and lead the industry with a 98% client success rate. Learn more at Talentfoot.com

Account Executive, New Business

Our client delivers managed IT services that function as a genuine business asset, providing 24/7 live support, proactive monitoring, and transparent, predictable pricing to mid-market and growing businesses across legal, healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, and other industries nationwide. Their distinctive pod model pairs each client with a consistent team of specialists who know the business deeply, replacing the frustration of rotating help desks with accountable, relationship-driven service. The culture is built by people who have been in the trenches themselves, and the environment rewards self-starters who take ownership and deliver results. As they invest in growing their new business sales team, they are looking for two Account Executives who know how to open doors, build pipeline from scratch, and close.

Position Overview

This is a hunter role with real upside. The Account Executive will own a territory with no inherited book of business, self-sourcing pipeline from day one and running a full consultative sales cycle with business owners and IT decision-makers through to close. Reporting directly to the SVP of Sales and measured on new monthly recurring revenue, this person will carry an individual quota and be set up to earn on-target compensation of $160,000 to $180,000 through base salary plus uncapped commission. For a true builder who wants to grow a territory and prove out a new-business motion at a company serious about investing in sales, this is the opportunity.

Position Responsibilities

• Prospect and self-source new business daily through outbound calling, email, LinkedIn, referral development, and networking, owning the pipeline from top to bottom.
• Build and manage a pipeline of qualified opportunities in HubSpot, maintaining clean and current deal data through each stage of the sales cycle.
• Run a consultative, needs-based sales process, diagnosing prospect IT pain points, cost of inaction, and total cost of ownership, and positioning the company’s managed services as the solution.
• Deliver and present proposals and statements of work, negotiate terms, and close net-new managed IT services agreements against monthly and annual quota.
• Consistently hit activity benchmarks including calls, meetings booked, and pipeline created to support a predictable and forecastable new business book.
• Partner with marketing and referral partners to develop and convert warm sources while independently maintaining outbound pipeline.
• Hand off closed clients to the Account Management team with the context needed for a strong onboarding experience.
• Maintain accurate forecasts and report pipeline health, win and loss trends, and deal risk to the SVP of Sales.

Position Qualifications

Required:

• A documented track record of hunting, prospecting, and closing net-new logos in a B2B environment, with consistent quota attainment and a demonstrated ability to build pipeline from scratch.
• A minimum of 3 to 5 years of B2B outside sales experience, with full-cycle ownership from prospecting through close.
• Comfort running a consultative sales process with business owners, CFOs, and IT decision-makers, including discovery, diagnosis, proposal, negotiation, and close.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the executive presence to sell at the ownership and C-suite level.
• Disciplined CRM habits and the organizational rigor to maintain an accurate, current pipeline.
• Resilient, self-motivated, and competitive, with a track record of treating a quiet pipeline as a problem to solve.
• Willingness to work a hybrid schedule near the company’s Plano, TX headquarters.

Preferred:

• Experience selling managed IT services, cybersecurity, or other B2B technology or SaaS solutions.
• Familiarity with HubSpot or a comparable CRM platform.

This role offers a base salary plus uncapped commission with on-target earnings of $160,000 to $180,000, along with a full benefits package including 401(k) with matching, health, vision, and dental coverage, and PTO.

If you are ready to build a territory from the ground up and take your career to the next level, we would love to hear from you. Apply now and a member of Talentfoot’s recruitment team will be in touch should your track record of success, experience, skills, and qualifications match our client’s requirements.

Talentfoot Executive Search specializes in future-proofing organizations by securing forward-thinking leaders across sales, marketing, eCommerce, product, data, operations, finance, and technology with a track record of accelerating growth, innovation and profitability. Since 2010, we’ve partnered with more than 2,500 companies and lead the industry with a 98% client success rate. Learn more at Talentfoot.com

Our client is a B2B communications firm known for a fresh, modern approach to storytelling and content strategy, built on a culture that puts people first and believes happy employees make for happy clients. The firm has built its reputation on deep craft, genuine passion for solving hard problems, and a focus on doing fewer things exceptionally well rather than trying to be all things to all clients. As the agency continues to grow, they are looking for a Senior Operations Manager to help build the systems and infrastructure that will support that next stage of growth.

Position Overview

This role offers the opportunity to shape the operational foundation of a growing agency, reporting directly to the CEO and playing a central role in how the business scales. You will lead across operations, human resources, technology, and key outsourced partnerships, giving you broad visibility and influence over how the organization runs day to day. Working closely with leadership on strategic planning and business growth, this position sits at the center of decision making and offers real opportunity for impact as the company evolves. For an operations leader who enjoys building efficient systems from the ground up and wants a seat at the table on major business decisions, this role offers meaningful scope and influence.

Position Responsibilities

Lead day to day business operations and help shape overall operational priorities and strategy

Guide financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and business performance in partnership with the finance team

Oversee human resources functions, including employee experience, compliance, and organizational development

Lead technology and infrastructure strategy in partnership with outside technology partners

Manage relationships with key business partners, including benefits, legal, insurance, and other operational vendors

Develop and continuously improve processes, systems, and workflows to help the organization operate efficiently and scale effectively

Establish and monitor operational and financial performance metrics to inform business decisions

Partner with the CEO and leadership team on strategic planning and organizational initiatives

Champion a collaborative, accountable, and high performing culture

Position Qualifications

Required

A demonstrated track record of leading cross functional operations and improving business processes

A minimum of 8 years of progressive leadership experience in professional services, agency, consulting, or another client focused organization, or a combination of education and experience providing equivalent knowledge

Strong financial and business acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, and operational planning

Experience managing strategic business partners and outside vendors

Exceptional communication and relationship building skills, with the ability to lead through influence across teams

Preferred

Bachelor’s degree in business, operations, finance, human resources, or a related field

Experience within an agency or professional services environment specifically

A collaborative, solutions oriented approach suited to a fast paced, entrepreneurial setting

A sense of humor and genuine enjoyment of a team first culture

If you are ready to help shape the operational future of a growing, people first organization, we would love to hear from you. Apply now and a member of Talentfoot’s recruitment team will be in touch should your background, experience, and skills match our client’s requirements.

Company Overview

Our client is an independent marketing and media agency. The team moves quickly, tests boldly, and holds itself accountable to outcomes clients can actually measure. Its culture rewards curiosity, ownership, and collaboration, attracting specialists across strategy, media, and analytics who want their work to move the needle. As the agency expands its performance marketing practice, it is looking for an Associate Director, Paid Social to help accelerate growth and results across a diverse client roster.

Position Overview

This is a rare seat for a performance marketer who wants to own both the strategy and the execution rather than choose between them. You’ll shape the paid social agenda for your accounts, manage the spend, build and run the campaigns yourself, and answer for the numbers, all while holding a strategic voice at the client table. The visibility is real: you’ll steer performance reviews with clients, turn complicated media results into plain-language business impact, and help win new work through pitch contributions. With Meta at the center of your remit and room to stretch into search and programmatic across the book of business, the role gives you a genuine runway to deepen your craft and grow toward senior leadership as the practice scales.

Position Responsibilities

• Set the paid social direction for your account and carry it through to execution, leading on Meta while staying fluent across other major platforms such as Pinterest, TikTok, and LinkedIn.

• Shape media plans that tie directly to each client’s business objectives, weighing in on channel mix, audience targeting, success metrics, and how the budget gets deployed.

• Handle campaigns hands-on inside the platforms, from initial build and quality checks through pacing, optimization, and the reporting that comes out the other end.

• Own the performance story with clients: walk them through what the numbers say, why they moved, and where the next round of investment should go.

• Team up with the data and analytics group to produce reporting that ties results back to objectives and the broader strategy.

• Turn shifts in platform features and audience behavior into specific recommendations clients can act on, not just trends to note.

Position Qualifications

Required

• A proven history of driving measurable performance through paid social at an agency, with results you can point to.

• Roughly six to eight years in performance marketing weighted heavily toward paid social, including time spent agency-side.

• Deep, current command of Meta, plus the range to toggle between doing the work in-platform and steering strategy as each situation demands.

• Clear, persuasive communication, including a knack for making media performance make sense to people outside the media world.

• Sharp analytical instincts and a detail-driven approach to tracking the metrics that matter.

• A self-directed, well-organized operator who troubleshoots independently, manages up, and pulls teams together.

Preferred

• Hands-on paid search and/or programmatic experience alongside paid social.

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

Location: Hybrid role based in Chicago, with three days per week in the office and occasional travel as needed.

Ready to Apply?

If you’re ready to make an impact and take your career to the next level, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and a member of Talentfoot’s recruitment team will be in touch should your track record of success, experience, skills, and qualifications match our client’s requirements.

About Talentfoot Executive Search

Talentfoot Executive Search specializes in future proofing organizations by securing forward-thinking leaders across sales, marketing, eCommerce, product, data, operations, finance, and technology with a track record of accelerating growth, innovation and profitability. Since 2010, we’ve partnered with more than 2,500 companies and lead the industry with a 98% client success rate. Learn more at Talentfoot.com

Company Overview

Our client, Graham & Associates, is seeking an experienced project controls professional to support a major Capital Improvement Program (CIP) in Tucker, Georgia. The organization is focused on delivering complex infrastructure initiatives through disciplined project management, strong financial controls, and effective coordination across project stakeholders. As the program continues to advance, they are seeking a Senior Project Scheduler to provide critical scheduling, cost management, reporting, and PMIS support.

Position Overview

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior Project Scheduler to play a key role in the project controls function of a major Capital Improvement Program. The Senior Project Scheduler will be responsible for developing and maintaining the CIP Master Program Schedule, supporting cost-loaded scheduling and budget management, monitoring schedule and cost performance, and providing accurate program-level reporting.

Working closely with project managers, consultants, contractors, and client representatives, this individual will help ensure project controls information is accurate, timely, and actionable. The role offers significant exposure to program-level scheduling, PMIS integration, cost management, and infrastructure project delivery.

Location: Tucker, GA

Salary: $125,000–$135,000 annually

Position Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and update the CIP Master Program Schedule using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
• Support project cost loading, budget tracking, and reconciliation of P6 cost data with Oracle financial systems.
• Manage the program schedule baseline and budget change process.
• Monitor schedule and cost performance, including critical path activities, variances, trends, and potential project risks.
• Assist with monthly program progress reports, cash flow reports, variance reports, and ad hoc reporting.
• Create and maintain PMIS dashboard reporting and support the integration of schedule and cost information.
• Support PMIS administration, including project site management, user access, workflows, and data maintenance.
• Assist with SharePoint administration, including project sites, security, user groups, and access permissions.
• Develop and maintain program-level project controls procedures and support periodic updates to applicable procedures.
• Provide cross-training and administrative support to the CIP Program Management Team as needed.
• Collaborate with project managers, consultants, contractors, and client representatives to ensure accurate and timely project controls information.

Position Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in project scheduling, project controls, construction management, or a related field.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Experience with cost-loaded schedules, baseline management, schedule updates, and schedule/cost variance analysis.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred:

• Experience supporting a Capital Improvement Program or large-scale infrastructure program.
• Experience with Oracle and SharePoint.
• Experience with PMIS dashboards, cash flow reporting, cost forecasting, and schedule/cost integration.
• Experience supporting municipal, transportation, water/wastewater, or other public infrastructure programs.
• Experience working collaboratively with project managers, consultants, contractors, and public-sector stakeholders.

Call to Action

If you’re an experienced project scheduling and controls professional looking to play a critical role in a major Capital Improvement Program, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and a member of Talentfoot’s recruitment team will be in touch should your track record of success, experience, skills, and qualifications align with our client’s requirements.

Talentfoot Overview

Talentfoot Executive Search specializes in future-proofing organizations by securing forward-thinking leaders across sales, marketing, eCommerce, product, data, operations, finance, and technology with a track record of accelerating growth, innovation, and profitability. Since 2010, we’ve partnered with more than 2,500 companies and lead the industry with a 98% client success rate. Learn more at Talentfoot.com.

Our client is a self-funded small business funding marketplace that connects small business borrowers with a network of established lender partners, allowing the company to focus its energy on marketing, lead generation, and the borrower experience while partners handle underwriting and funding. Backed by significant capital and a fully built infrastructure, the organization is led by a hands-on, serial entrepreneur with a track record of building successful ventures across gaming, traffic acquisition, and technology. As the company prepares for its next phase of growth, it is looking for a VP of Operations to build the team and infrastructure that will carry the business forward.

This is a rare opportunity to build an operation from the ground up rather than simply scale an existing one. As the company’s first VP of Operations, you will take over day to day operations currently supported by team members borrowed from the Founder’s other ventures, and stand up the team, processes, and infrastructure needed to run the business independently. You will own full P&L responsibility, partner directly with a hands on Founder on strategic decisions, and have the autonomy to shape how the business scales over the next six to twelve months. As the business grows, so will your role and influence within the organization. For an experienced operator who wants outsized visibility, meaningful resources, and the chance to build something truly their own, this position offers a clear and compelling path forward.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as the day to day operating leader, standing up the team and infrastructure needed to run the business independently

• Build the organization from the ground up, including hiring a media buyer, sales development representatives, and an operations coordinator over the next two quarters

• Establish scalable processes, tools, and a reporting cadence to support rapid, profitable growth

• Own a weekly status report and monthly business review with the Founder, delivering clear, concise updates on results, hires, and priorities

• Drive traffic generation and top of funnel growth for small business loan products, applying proven marketing strategies to build volume

• Partner with the company’s origination and conversion partner to optimize the funnel while focusing internal efforts on driving volume

• Scale marketing spend intelligently as volume grows, balancing growth with profitability

• Own full P&L responsibility for the business and operate with a high degree of day to day autonomy, bringing major decisions to the Founder while independently managing execution and hiring

• Develop and present a clear business plan and hiring sequence showing how the business will scale over the first six to twelve months

• Build toward a fully staffed, Miami based team and office as the business continues to scale

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

• A proven track record of building and scaling operations within the small business or alternative lending space

• A minimum of seven years of progressive experience in merchant cash advance or alternative small business lending, or a comparable combination of education and experience

• Established lender, funder, or ISO relationships within the broker or marketplace lending space

• Demonstrated experience owning a P&L and managing teams within a growth stage lending business

• A marketing and growth orientation, with experience driving traffic and lead generation for regulated financial products

Preferred:

• Proven ability to operate independently with minimal oversight, exercising sound judgment on day to day decisions

• A direct, concise communication style=””> Willingness to be based in or relocate to Miami, Florida, with occasional travel as needed

If you are ready to build something from the ground up and make a lasting impact on a growing business, we would love to hear from you. Apply now, and a member of Talentfoot’s recruitment team will be in touch should your experience and qualifications align with our client’s requirements.