Chief Operating Officer – COO
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Part-time COO managing finances, operations, contracts, and grants for YosysHQ, an open-source electronic design automation company. Leading a 10-person team and optimizing scalable business processes.
Responsibilities:
- Own the organization's financials and operations
- Monitor budgets, track expenditures, and align spending with company goals
- Create financial forecasts and analyze staffing and new-project variances
- Develop strategic financial models for decision-making
- Assess pricing models and development-service costs
- Define and track retention and lifetime-value data
- Attend grant meetings and prepare documentation for upcoming project criteria
- Develop and optimize operational processes with the Project Manager
- Manage the team and foster accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Own one-on-ones and the biannual review process
- Manage contracts, redline requests, invoicing, and client financial portals such as SAP Ariba
- Research, identify, and pursue relevant grants and funding opportunities
- Handle non-technical grant proposal activities, submissions, and deadline tracking
Requirements:
- Experience integrating with small businesses or startups
- Comfortable delegating tasks and empowering team members
- Ability to address challenges quickly
- Availability for 1–3 days per week
- Must work as an independent contractor/freelancer
- Must not live in a country subject to sanctions or export restrictions
- Must not be banned from performing work for the US government
- Ability to attend team meetings usually held between 3pm and 6pm Vienna time (CET/CEST)
- Submit a CV and brief cover letter
Benefits:
- Flexible part-time remote work
- Choose when to work outside team meetings
- Work from wherever you are
- Independent contractor/freelancer arrangement
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