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Role:
Acquisition.com is growing tremendously this year! We are hiring an Operating Partner who will play a pivotal leadership role in our company. This person will build upon an existing and fast-scaling workshop division at Acquisition.com. Personal growth is a major benefit of this role. You will have the opportunity to interact with dozens of small, fast-growing businesses. You'll also work in a fast-paced startup environment, growing and managing a revenue-driving division from the ground up. The 'pattern recognition' you will build on this job will be unmatched. After 1 - 2 years in the role, you will be ideally set up to grow internally within Acquisition.com or run one of our portfolio companies.
As the Operating Partner, you will be presenting at workshops, consulting with a variety of businesses, and facilitating their growth by leveraging your broad business knowledge. If specific expertise is required (e.g., marketing, sales, finance), you'll collaborate with the portfolio team of subject matter experts (SMEs) to provide targeted support. This role demands a mastery level of business acumen, presentation skills, on-the-spot problem-solving, as well as leadership. This is an incredible opportunity to live in Las Vegas and work alongside the dynamic and inspirational CEO of Acquisition.com at our new HQ facility.
Responsibilities:
External
- Present presentations for our workshops to deliver key training for business owners, and collaborate with the team in the creation of those presentations.
- Facilitate roundtable discussions to empower businesses with effective strategies and best practices as well as solve their problems on the spot.
- Share strategies for businesses to implement improvements to grow their businesses.
- Oversee a team of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) working collaboratively on workshop-related projects to grow businesses.
- Act as a trusted advisor, subject matter expert, and point of escalation for workshop participants.
- Guide businesses on how to build and scale their businesses.
- Lead the creation of a comprehensive business playbook for businesses attending the workshop and the ongoing improvement of curriculum
- Create an effective strategy for the delivery of upper-level workshops
Internal
- Collaborate with the Portfolio Operating Partner to ensure cohesive training and strategies across teams
- Help build the systems and teams to ensure we have proper workshop operations and curriculum in place
- Oversee all small/intimate high-end workshops and lead the charge of preparing, executing, and analyzing each one.
- Assist in identifying the right platforms and processes to monitor workshop performance
- Oversee a team of SMEs that work on the businesses alongside you
- Oversee the creation of playbooks/workshops that can be applied across workshop businesses
Results:
- Create and deliver a world-class presentation consistently during workshops and a team that does the same.
- People who attend workshops want to attend more and also tell their friends.
- Track key performance indicators to assess the health and effectiveness of workshops.
- Uphold company values and culture in all interactions with workshop participants.
- Keep the CEO out of day-to-day and week-to-week tasks, building the reporting that allows for this
Requirements:
- Either top-tier MBA + top-tier management consulting experience OR 2+ years leading (CEO/COO/Founder), scaling, and ideally exiting a company with $15M+ in annual revenue.
- Ability to collaboratively lead people and teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, especially for a business owner audience
- High emotional intelligence with a willingness to develop deep interpersonal relationships.
- Previous experience in a startup environment is preferred.
- Strong business acumen with the confidence to teach others.
- Demonstrated experience as a creative problem solver with the ability to structure complex issues.
- Dynamic leadership skills with the ability to inspire growth opportunities.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and adaptable to a fast-changing environment.
- Excellent organizational, project management, and analytical skills.
- Demonstrated integrity and dedication to effective, efficient delivery of objectives.
- Proficiency in modeling and creating tracking tools in Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets and creating presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint/Google Slides.
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to work autonomously.
- Located in or willing to relocate to Las Vegas
Salary:
$200k-$235k + bonus
Benefits:
- Acquisition.com believes great people are at the center of every successful business.
- Medical, Vision, Dental Benefits
- Flexible PTO, paid parental leave, and flexible scheduling
- 401(k) with employer match
- Hybrid working environment
Acquisition.com Core Values:
Our core values are the heart and soul of this incredible company. The right person for this role will appreciate each of these values, personally subscribe to them, and understand why each is critical to having a great business.
Competitive Greatness
Be at your best when your best is needed. Enjoyment of a hard challenge. Those who have the drive to constantly improve, superior intellect, and long-term commitment to see incremental improvements become compounding returns.
Sincere Candor
Have the self-awareness to accurately perceive and communicate hard truths that improve others and self, the courage to do so, and the humility to accept them, even when it hurts. Nothing great can be built without feedback: internally or externally.
Unimpeachable Character
Be the type of person with whom people are always proud to associate, personally and professionally. We look for true alignment of thoughts, words, and actions towards a goal worth pursuing.