Chief Operations Integrator (Remote)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is a remote agency that builds websites and runs paid and organic programs for US clients. As Vice President of Operations you run the company day to day, with sales, recruiting, delivery and marketing reporting to you.

This integrator role mirrors an EOS-style structure: you execute the founder's vision, align four department leads, and drive profitability and growth. You will shape weekly rhythm, priorities, and critical go/no-go decisions.

Qualifications

• More than one function reporting to you, where their numbers, their hiring and the decision when a leader was not working out were yours to make.
• You joined a company at one size and left it three or four times bigger.
• A profit number you personally carried. Margin, not revenue somebody else sold.
• Real negotiation experience, on contracts and with people.
• A communicator. Clear with four leaders and one founder about what is true right now.

Responsibilities

• Four department leads: their numbers, their development, their reviews, and the call when one of them is not going to get there.
• The week. The meeting rhythm, this quarter's priorities, and what gets cut when two of them collide.
• Profit, measured on attainment rather than activity. Margin on delivery, the real cost of a hire, which business we take and which we turn down.
• The commercial conversations: client contracts and the redlines that come back on them, vendor terms, and what we will and will not agree to.
• Building strong operators into actual leaders. Several of them have never been coached as one.
• The decisions that wait on the founder today, made the same day instead.

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is a remote agency that builds websites and runs paid and organic programs for US clients. As Vice President of Operations you run the company day to day, with sales, recruiting, delivery and marketing reporting to you.

This integrator role mirrors an EOS-style structure: you execute the founder's vision, align four department leads, and drive profitability and growth. You will shape weekly rhythm, priorities, and critical go/no-go decisions.