COO

McKinsey; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 261,000 - 528,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentor

Benefits plan

Growth opportunities

Job summary

McKinsey & Company is seeking a remote COO with 17+ years of leadership experience. The position offers a compensation range of $261,000 to $528,000 and emphasizes growth within a highly focused, customer-driven environment.

The role prioritizes stakeholder management, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to guide decisions remotely while maintaining accountability and delivering impact across McKinsey accounts.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with the rhythms of an empowering remote team.
• The kind of curiosity that reads the docs before asking
• The kind of ownership that treats the company's money like your own
• Hands-on Stakeholder Management experience that survives a whiteboard interview
• A teammate's instinct to unblock others before yourself

Responsibilities

• Spot where Team Leadership breaks before it shows up in a dashboard.
• Read the room and adjust how you pitch Decision Making to each audience
• Keep a steady hand on McKinsey & Company accounts when volume spikes
• Hand off Cross-Functional Collaboration work clean enough that nobody has to ask twice
• Communicate progress, blockers, and results to stakeholders and leadership
• Keep the remote schedule realistic when everyone wants everything yesterday
• Find the employee-centric workaround when the official path is blocked
• Earn the trust to make impact-driven judgment calls without a committee

Skills

Remote team leadership

Curiosity/read docs

Ownership mindset

Stakeholder management

Unblock others

Job description

This remote COO role puts you at the center of projects that matter to our customers and our business. For a ruthlessly-focused professional with 17+ years behind them, this remote COO job delivers $261,000 - $528,000 and meaningful growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Spot where Team Leadership breaks before it shows up in a dashboard
• Read the room and adjust how you pitch Decision Making to each audience
• Keep a steady hand on McKinsey & Company accounts when volume spikes
• Hand off Cross-Functional Collaboration work clean enough that nobody has to ask twice
• Communicate progress, blockers, and results to stakeholders and leadership
• Keep the remote schedule realistic when everyone wants everything yesterday
• Find the employee-centric workaround when the official path is blocked
• Earn the trust to make impact-driven judgment calls without a committee

What You'll Bring

• Familiarity with the rhythms of an empowering remote team
• The kind of curiosity that reads the docs before asking
• The kind of ownership that treats the company's money like your own
• Hands-on Stakeholder Management experience that survives a whiteboard interview
• A teammate's instinct to unblock others before yourself

McKinsey & Company began as a side project in Saint Paul and grew into the small‑but‑mighty platform thousands of general users now rely on. We hire performance-driven people, get out of their way, and let the Cross-Functional Collaboration results speak.

Yours for the taking: $261,000 - $528,000, a mentor, a benefits plan, and the room to grow your Delegation and Persuasion side by side.

This role is in active recruitment, with a target start date just ahead.