Pink Coconuts is building a new exciting experience for LGBTQ travelers.
We're making it easier, safer, more fun and connected for LGBTQ people to travel the world.
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Chief Operations Officer
Job Description
Pink Coconuts is a growing and exciting LGBTQ focused travel tech startup, and we need a chief operating officer (COO) to be the right hand of our thriving CEO. With your experience and talents, you’ll be able to lead our small team to be efficient, productive, and effective. Our ideal candidate has experience within the travel or tech industry or business operations and fundraising. Perhaps having worked your way up through the ranks to your role as an executive or you've founded a few startups in the past and looking for your next play. We believe this trajectory helps develop a unique mix of business and management expertise. We have our eye out for a COO with strong leadership skills and the ability to approach business from a creative point of view.
Objectives of this Role
- Collaborate with the CEO preparing, pitching and organizing fundraising strategies
- Oversee company's move to a high functional tech, SAAS operation & and ensure the efficiency of web application systems.
- Collaborating with CEO by driving organizational vision, operational strategy, and hiring needs
- Translate strategy into actionable goals for performance and growth helping to implement organization-wide goal setting, performance management, and annual operating planning
- Ensure effective recruiting, onboarding, professional development, performance management, and retention
- Adhere to company, federal, state, and local business requirements, enforcing compliance and taking action when necessary
Daily and Monthly Responsibilities
- Analyze internal operations and identify areas of process enhancement
- Develop actionable business strategies and plans that ensure alignment with short-term and long-term objectives developed in tandem with the CEO
- Directly oversee operations, HR, and accounting, and partner with the CEO on sales management to budget for sufficient investment capital to achieve growth targets over the near term
- Proactively manage capital investment and expenses to ensure the company achieves investor targets relative to growth and profitability
- Monitor performance with tracking and establish corrective measures as needed, and prepare detailed reports, both current and forecasting
- Maintain and build trusted relationships with key customers, clients, partners, and stakeholders