Episode 2

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13th Jul 2023

2. How do you hire a COO?

In this episode we tackle the question of: How do I hire a COO? Our special guest is James Mitra, Founder of JBM, an executive search firm that specialises in placing COO’s. 

In this episode we get his experiences on the following questions: 

  • When a CEO comes to you and says “we need to hire a COO”. What is your approach? 

  • What is your take on “assignments”? 

  • What does that salary equity ban situation look like right now?

  • What advice do you give to women or to others who might not, who might be accepting less than they should?

  • What is your take on back channel references? 


Speaker notes and references:

40 Minute Mentor – https://linktr.ee/40minutementor


COO Secrets - https://jbmc.co.uk/insights/category/coo-secrets/


Chief of Staff hiring guide - https://mailchi.mp/jbmc/the-chief-of-staff-role-uncovered


Ravio (real time comp data) – https://ravio.com/partners/jbm/ 


JBM have partnered up with Ravio, Europe's first real-time compensation benchmarking platform for Tech Startups (backed by Northzone). You can connect your HR systems to see what the market is paying today, including salary, equity and benefits. 


Our partnership gives free access to Ravio’s core benchmarking solution (and 15% off Ravio Pro for the 1st year). Apply to Ravio using the below landing page and entering the discount code; https://ravio.com/partners/jbm/ - WBGRDX.


James Mitra is the Founder of JBM, an award-winning executive search firm that specialises in placing COO’s and GM’s.


He’s also the Host of one of the UK’s most popular business and career podcasts, 40 Minute Mentor. It’s approaching 1 million downloads and features inspiring career stories and mentorship from world class business leaders, entrepreneurs and sporting legends. 


James has been recognised as a LinkedIn Top Voice for Careers and sits on the Board of 3 organisations: Foundrs, Ivy Rock Partners and Unrest. 


JBM - https://jbmc.co.uk/



This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:

Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
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The Operations Room: A Podcast for COO’s
We are the COO coaches to help you successfully scale in this new world where efficiency is as important as growth. Remember when valuations were 3-10x ARR and money wasn’t free? We do. Each week we share our experiences and bring in scale up experts and operational leaders to help you navigate both the burning operational issues and the larger existential challenges. Beth Ayers is the former COO of Peak AI, NewVoiceMedia and Codilty and has helped raise over $200m from top funds - Softbank, Bessemer, TCV, MCC, Notion and Oxx. Brandon Mensinga is the former COO of Signal AI and Trint.

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