Operations
Operations is what turns a hot product into a durable company. It is rarely glamorous and almost always decisive.
The hire that changes the trajectory.
The companies that scale cleanly are the ones with operators who saw the next phase before it arrived. Strong RevOps, BizOps and People leaders prevent the silent compounding problems — data drift, comp drift, culture drift — that quietly kill momentum.
Great operations leaders give the executive team leverage. They take the work that founders shouldn't be doing — and shouldn't even be aware of — off the critical path.
The cost of getting it wrong.
A mis-hire at this level is rarely a single bad quarter. It is a compounding tax on the next two years.
Boardroom blindness
Without strong RevOps, the metrics in the board pack stop being trustworthy. Decisions get made on lagging, contested numbers.
Comp and equity chaos
Weak People ops means comp bands, equity refreshes and performance cycles become political. Top performers leave first.
Process for its own sake
Mediocre operators add process to look busy. Great ones remove it. The wrong hire makes the company slower, not faster.
How Crooter runs the search.
Specialist, not generalist
We separate RevOps, BizOps, FinOps and People searches — they require different operators.
Stage-honest briefs
A Series A doesn't need a public-company COO. We help shape the brief to the company in front of us.
Outcome-led assessment
We assess on the systems they've actually built, not the org charts they've inherited.
Titles we place in this practice.
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