Chief Growth & Operations Officer - Spirio
What should you know about SKELAR? It is a venture builder — in other words, a company that builds companies. With us, founders create consumer businesses that become leaders in global markets such as EdTech, Mental health, Petcare, FashionTech, and others.
Skelar team members build tech products that receive recognition from Product Hunt, The Webby Awards, and thousands of positive reviews on TrustPilot. Overall, the tech products of our businesses are used by 10+ million people worldwide. All thanks to strong teams, because our specialists are the key value of SKELAR.
To enable professional realization, we have created an environment with expertise and unlimited opportunities — and we are looking for those who crave challenges.
Hi! I am Serhii Kapranov, Co-Founder of Spirio.
Spirio is 2 years old. We have built a strong product and proven that the economics work. We are already at the global scaling stage and are starting to build the brand. This is the moment when speed, decision accuracy, operational, and capital efficiency define everything.
That is why it is time to find a strong partner — Chief Growth & Operations Officer. If you resonate with an environment where big ambitions combine with high decision-making speed, and where every launch can impact millions of people around the world — read on.
About Spirio
We are building a Spiritual Growth Platform — digitizing Eastern practices so that a person can experience a transformational retreat anywhere. Our concept is "a retreat in your pocket." We operate in the global B2C subscription market, where learning speed, product quality, and marketing efficiency determine growth rates.
We are looking for a strong partner and manager with whom we will transform Spirio into a global market leader, a person with access to the strategic board alongside business partners and department leaders: goal setting, validation of strategy and tactics, and results review. Your voice will be in business-level decisions, not just marketing.
The scale of challenges involved:
- Team management and scaling (30+ people):
– Implementing operational discipline, developing leaders within functional areas (UA, Creative, Design, Brand). – Transforming the team from "executors" into business-oriented leaders with a high bar for quality and task execution speed.
- ROI discipline and P&L mindset:
– Moving from growth through chaos to control of ROI, Payback, and LTV while maintaining aggressive scaling rates. – Capital optimization and effective resource management.
- Creating a "second growth engine":
– Diversifying acquisition sources (currently the core is Meta). Your task is to systematically transform Google Ads, In-app networks, and Organic into full-fledged alternative purchasing channels.
- Rapid Testing Framework & R&D:
– Building a clear pipeline for production and testing of marketing and creative hypotheses. Maximizing the number of verified experiments per unit of time without losing quality.
- Operations block:
– Taking full responsibility for operational decisions from marketing within the first 90 days to free up the CEO's resources for global strategy.
Why this role is cool:
- Autonomy and scale: full carte blanche to manage a team of 30+ people, allocate million-dollar budgets, and rebuild the operating system — zero micromanagement from the CEO;
- Strong product: 4.8 rating in the US App Store, 250,000+ active subscribers, an in-house media studio, and the ambition to achieve App of the Year status;
- Result = Impact: your decisions directly convert into business growth and your financial result;
- Direct communication with founders: delegated decisions are truly delegated, fast feedback, and no bureaucracy;
- Strong resource base: in-house production, developed infrastructure, a formed team of specialists in need of a vertical leader;
- Financial motivation: tied to aggressive business growth and achieving targets;
- Large-scale vision: participation in building a global content platform and a brand present on all screens in the world by 2030.
What is important to us:
- Proven Leadership & Ops Background: successful experience in positions such as Founding Partner, Head of Operations, Head of Growth, COO, in heavy-operations / tech / scaleup companies with complex structures (deep experience in pure performance marketing is NOT mandatory — what matters to us is your ability to build systems, manage 30+ people, and maintain ROI discipline);
- Hunger for Growth: high energy level, a healthy "hunger for money" and business victories, readiness to work at a high pace and drive the team with your own engagement;
- High Cognitive Capacity & First-Principles Thinking: the ability to see chaos, quickly break down complex concepts into simple elements, identify root causes of problems, and propose systemic solutions;
- Data & ROI Mindset: a deep analytical culture — making decisions based on numbers, cohort analysis, payback, and LTV/CAC, rather than intuition;
- High Ownership & Maturity: readiness to be responsible for the financial result, take on difficult challenges, and defend decisions before the founders.
What we offer
- Competitive C-level compensation, with the opportunity to become a full business partner.
- Freedom and responsibility: full autonomy in strategy, team structure, channels, and testing bold hypotheses.
- Business trips and live contact with the world. We work directly with partners all over the world, hold strategic sessions, and attend conferences with partners from Meta, Google.
- The scale of the SKELAR ecosystem: access to expertise, playbooks, and a community of venture builder leaders who build world-class businesses.
Location
Kyiv or a nearby time zone, with readiness to be in Kyiv at least 50% of the time. We are building this business side-by-side.
If you have read this far and felt "this is about me" — write to us. I will be glad to meet you.
At SKELAR, we have built an environment for professional self-realization:
- SKELAR Platform. This is the operational core of the venture builder that helps founders move faster from zero to one. Thus, business teams focus on the product — while 10+ teams within the Platform cover functions such as Legal, Finance, HR, Admin, Talent Acquisition, Employer Branding, IT, and others.
- Networking and knowledge sharing as part of the culture. Among our colleagues are co-founders who have launched more than one business, as well as the strongest specialists on the market. So, we have access to the necessary expertise at arm's length.
- Exclusive domain education. We have created our own training programs for teammates of their choice — from a 2-month school for beginner managers to intensives on AI and professional clubs for development, product management, etc.
- Impact on systemic aid to Ukraine. We have the SKELAR foundation, which was created by the Skelar team themselves — and thanks to every employee, we implement important social projects. For example, we founded the first accelerator for veterans in Europe https://veteranventure.skelar.tech/ and are forming a platform for veteran support at the state level.
- Ecosystem for productive work. Spaces have been created for Skelar team members that inspire results — with their own gym, climbing wall, green zones in Bali, and libraries. In spaces where service, security, and comfort are synchronized with the growth pace of the teams, we get a wow-experience and work more effectively.
- Care for daily comfort. Breakfasts, lunches, access to sports training in Kyiv or partial compensation for classes in Warsaw, medical insurance, paid business trips if the specifics of the role require such trips, and corporate discounts from partners.
We will tell you more during our introductory meeting.
We invite you to build the next big everything at SKELAR together