Chief Operating Officer

Summary:

Rare opportunity to join the C-suite of an extremely successful start-up with a disruptive technology. We've been featured in 1000 articles, including Tech Crunch, CNN, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Reuters, etc etc.
Our past customers include Deutche Telekom, the Ontario Government at the Olympics, BBDO/Proximity, Etc.

The founders and management come from places like RIM and X-box have given TED talks, lectured at MIT, and are considered to be tech's best and brightest. We are completing our next funding round and on a tight courst to bring a phenomenal new product to market in  2013.

You will have held an executive or founder position in a SME or start-up that has either exited successfully or is doing extremely well currently as a direct result of You. You have deep experience with operations, financing, management,  and business development. Ideally, you've done all this in a hardware business and understand manufacturing, inventory and the vagaries of retail.

Description of role and tasks:

• You will be responsible for the day-to-day operations and financials of the company
• Responsible for the bottom line and ensuring financial health of the company
• Managing operations and cash flow of an consumer product company
• Supporting investment and investor management
• Implementing HR strategy and best practices around corporate culture
• Ensure best practices in accounting meticulously followed
• Financial Modelling
• Build and manage teams
• Managaing the balance of manufacturing, inventory, cash flow and sales
• Strategizing and implementing the growth of the company

Qualities and experience:

• Experience with hardware manufacturing and distribution a must.
• Previous experience as CEO/CFO/COO
• Vital to driving the operational and financial health of previous business
• Successfully raised or closely supported the raise of venture capital in excess of $3M
• MBA preferred but not required
• Intimate knowledge of financials, complex modeling and revenue projections
• Phenomenal business acumen
• Driven self-starter
• Negotiating skills to manage costs and contracts around legal, accounting, mfg
• Experience with both software and hardware businesses a plus
• Expereince with consumer product businesses a plus