SVP / VP of Operations

About this role

About Emergence

We are a holding company, and we plan to be a generational one. We buy businesses to keep them, and we want to be the permanent home where good companies grow for generations. That means we’re building a company meant to last, for companies meant to last. Our own standards, systems and habits have to be sturdy enough to serve the businesses we own long after any of us has moved on.

The leaders who run those companies keep real authority. Our job is to give them standards, support and shared systems that make their work easier across HR, operations, IT and finance. We promise founders a long-term home that protects their people and their life’s work. We promise operators the capital, tools and autonomy to grow what they run, with clear accountability for results. We promise investors steady, compounding returns from patient capital. And we hold ourselves to one test: every company grows faster after joining Emergence than it did before.

We hire people who are humble, hungry and hold high standards.

The role

You’ll run the operating side of Emergence alongside the CEO. That means setting how the company runs day to day, making sure decisions turn into action and building the shared functions our companies rely on: legal, security, IT, governance and integration.

You’ll be the person the CEO leans on most. Some weeks that means preparing a board meeting. Other weeks it means closing an acquisition, fixing a process that’s slowing everyone down or stepping into a problem nobody else owns.

The scope grows as you show you can carry it. Over time, the CEO will look to you to oversee more of the business, including some of our operating companies directly.

What you will do

Run the company with the CEO

• Set Emergence’s operating cadence and hold everyone to it
• Help the CEO decide where their time goes, and make sure what gets decided gets done
• Prepare the Emergence board and operating company boards with the CEO and Head of Fina...