Operations Leadership — COO, VP Operations, and Operations Directors
More than 5,000 executive sources scanned daily — every senior operations role surfaced from COO down to Director, across healthcare, technology, consumer, and industrial firms.
Tier breakdown
27
Founder159
C-Suite884
VP83
Sr Director503
DirectorWhat this category covers
The Operational role type covers the full operations leadership stack — not just COO. It spans Chief Operating Officer, EVP Operations, SVP Operations, VP Operations, GM (operating P&L), Head of Operations, Senior Director Operations, and Director Operations seats, all classified at the executive tier.
Operations is one of the most volume-heavy categories in healthcare, consumer, and industrial — where multi-site or multi-function ownership is the differentiator between a Director and a VP. A Sr. Director Operations running three plants often carries more real-dollar scope than a VP Operations at a single-site peer. The classifier weighs scope and span of control, not just the title prefix.
What falls outside: Operations Manager and Senior Operations Manager (sub-Director tier), Plant Manager (an IC-equivalent at single-site companies), Shift Supervisor, and Process Improvement Specialist. The executive gate filters these before any role reaches your inbox.
Sample Jobs (10 of 1,656)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Chief Operating Officer Protis Global The COO role is to ensure leadership transition and help the company outperform in the beverage distribution environment across NYC. Responsibilities include developing profit plans, leading operations, and strategic planning. C-Suite | The Bronx, NY Onsite |
| Head of Customer Delivery Deliverect Lead Deliverect's largest implementation initiatives across North and Latin America, focusing on enterprise revenue and customer outcomes. VP | New York Remote |
| Senior Director, Global Channel & Alliances Operations Cohesity Lead Revenue and Partner Program operations for the global channel business across various regions. Focus on partner-led ARR growth, modernizing partner transactions, and leading a global team. Sr Director | Santa Clara, CA - USA Hybrid |
| Global Head of Capital Project Management - Executive Director Morgan Stanley Seeking a strategic leader to oversee real estate capital projects globally, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to high standards. VP | London, United Kingdom Hybrid |
| Agent Liquidity Regional Lead Wave Mobile Money Inc. Responsible for structuring and deploying strategies across the region to deliver optimized cash flow solutions and anticipate liquidity demand. Requires team management experience and proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets. VP | Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Onsite |
| Chief Financial and Administrative Officer Girl Scouts Nation's Capital The role involves being a strategic partner to the CEO and a core member of the executive leadership team, safeguarding the financial health of the council and driving operational excellence. C-Suite | Washington, DC Unknown |
| Program Director, Federal Abridge Manage federal healthcare programs, ensuring cross-functional alignment and stakeholder management. Director | Remote Remote |
| Parks and Recreation Director ... City of Buda The Parks and Recreation Director provides executive leadership, strategic direction, and operational oversight for the City of Buda’s parks and recreation system. VP | City of Buda, TX Onsite |
| Executive Director, Asset Management Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The role involves strategic leadership in Pharmaceutical Operations & Technologies, focusing on operations strategy, portfolio management, and technology transformation. C-Suite | Cary, NC Hybrid |
| Director of Operations – Repairs, Maintenance & Renovations ... an established real estate development and investment company Manage day-to-day operations, lead field technicians, oversee projects in repairs, maintenance, and renovations for a real estate development company. Director | Long Beach, California Onsite |
How classification gets to this category
Operations role classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other role type, with Operations-specific signals at three stages:
- Title recognition. "COO," "Chief Operating Officer," "VP Operations," "GM" (when scoped as a P&L owner), "Head of Operations," and "Director of Operations" are recognized directly. The lookup table covers hundreds of Operations title variants across healthcare, technology, and industrial conventions.
- Compensation threshold. $235K+ base is the exec-tier floor for this role type — higher than Marketing or HR because COO and VP Operations seats trend toward larger total comp. Roles below this threshold in unambiguous Operations titles are flagged for manual review rather than auto-classified.
- JD signals for ambiguous cases. GPT reads the job description for P&L scope, headcount of the operating org reporting in, multi-site or multi-function ownership, and CEO reporting line. A COO reporting to the CEO carries a different tier signal than a "VP Operations" reporting into the COO at a larger enterprise. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
The classifier also has a negative filter: "Operations Manager," "Senior Operations Manager," "Plant Manager" (single-site), "Shift Manager," and "Operations Specialist" are explicitly blocked from the executive gate.
How matching works for your search
Matching on COO/Operations is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select COO/Operations + Healthcare and your inbox shows Operations executive roles at hospitals, payers, and IDNs only — not every COO role on the platform, and not every Healthcare role regardless of function. You get the intersection.
Tier filtering works on top. If you want only VP-tier and above Operations roles — filtering out Director-tier for now — the seniority-tier setting does that cleanly. Or restrict to CXO-tier only to see pure COO seats. Each filter layer multiplies precision without requiring you to manually scan for noise.
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