Operating Partner

Prospera Executive; United States; On-site; USD 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Prospera Executive is seeking an seasoned Operating Partner to work across a portfolio of lower middle‑market healthcare services businesses. The role sits with founders and leadership teams to drive growth, scaling, and operating discipline in a hands‑on, multi‑portfolio context.

Ideal candidates will have sat in a CEO chair within PE‑backed healthcare services, built durable infra, and led post‑close value creation across multiple platforms.

Qualifications

• Former CEO of a lower middle-market PE-backed healthcare services business, ideally with a full-cycle exit.
• Hands-on operator who builds infra and operating discipline.
• Experience as Operating Partner or similar multi-portfolio advisory role preferred.

Responsibilities

• Advise portfolio CEOs on growth strategy, scaling, and performance.
• Contribute to diligence on acquisitions and value creation.
• Support exits and investor communications as part of the operating team.

Skills

CEO experience

Healthcare services

Generalist

Portfolio leadership

Job description

Prospera Executive has been instructed on an Operating Partner search for a lower middle-market healthcare services investment firm.

The fund invests exclusively in the smaller end of the lower middle market, healthcare services businesses with $40-200m of revenue and $8-20m of EBITDA, partnering with founders to professionalise and scale their businesses ahead of the next stage of institutional growth. The firm already fields a bench of subject-matter specialists across revenue cycle management, payer strategy, healthcare technology, the office of the CFO, legal and BI/analytics. It is now looking to bring in a generalist \"quarterback\" who has sat in the CEO chair themselves, to work directly across the portfolio alongside those specialists and the existing leadership teams.

• Act as a hands-on generalist partner across the portfolio, working alongside existing subject-matter specialists (RCM, payer strategy, healthcare technology, finance, legal, BI) rather than as a narrow specialist themselves
• Advise portfolio company CEOs and leadership teams directly on growth strategy, multi-site scaling, operating infrastructure and performance improvement
• Contribute to operational diligence on new acquisition targets, assessing management capability, operating model and post-close value-creation potential
• Partner with the investment team on portfolio strategy and value-creation planning
• Support portfolio companies through to exit, including exit preparation and process
• Represent the operating team in investor-facing contexts as required

Ideal Candidate

• Former CEO of a lower middle-market, PE-backed healthcare services business, ideally with a full-cycle exit under their belt
• Comfortable building infrastructure and operating discipline from a low base, genuinely hands-on rather than a big-company executive
• Prior experience as an Operating Partner, Executive Partner or equivalent multi-portfolio advisory role strongly preferred, this is a role for someone who already works this way, not a first attempt at the CEO to OP transition
• A true generalist, able to flex across commercial, operational and organisational challenges without deferring entirely to specialists