General Manager / COO (FR & ENG Fluent)
دوام كامل
في Paradox EN
في
UAE
نُشرت يوم January 17, 2025
تفاصيل الوظيفة
Wait a minute. Are you inspired in being a key player in building a massive EdTech company that will empower millions of people? Do you have international ambition? Do you love scaling companies & improving Operations? Do you desire to put that thrive of excellence at the service of selling meaningful products that really change lives? Are you inspired by Ed Tech ? Deep inside you are looking for a new adventure with…
- Freedom: feeling free to work remotely or hybrid and being trusted to deliver
- Ambition: growing up surrounded by smart colleagues driven to create an iconic brand like Nike big
- Impact: contributing to transform people lives at scale and feel your own impact in the company
- Defining the Vision & keeping in-depth Industry Knowledge
- External Communication on social media, PR, interviews with people like Richard Branson
- Strategic Product Keynotes for major Marketing opportunities
- Building the future of our products
- Generating growth opportunities, big ideas
- Strongly analytical, and at ease to challenge or disagree with our CEO in his thinking with strong reasoning and Data
- Hands-On Leadership
- Strong leadership to inspire, lead, and make people accountable
- Really Hard worker
- Great at being provided with a company Vision, and then turning it into something real and then translating the Vision into something others can understand and get on board with-laying a solid foundation for execution.
- But also very inspired by our mission to empower people live their true ambition
- Develop the business and manage the day-to-day operations
- Yearly/Monthly/Quarterly planning and structure and lead quarterly meeting
- Play devil's advocate with the CEO and determine when to stay focused
- Integrate all major functions of the company
- Leads, manages, and holds the leadership team accountable for achieving agreed-upon commitments. (ex: performance reviews)
- Lead all internal team meetings and bring global communication
- Set a tempo, a pace of execution and performance at all levels in the company, so that everyone
- have clear and ambitious objectives for the quarter
- be responsible for a numerical indicator and with an associated scoreboard
- Develop Talents
- Creation, process optimization, automation & Continuously simplify the organization
- Be the “Glue” holding things together
- Choose the digital tools that will allow to scale (we expect deep analysis & thinking when you do your benchmarks)
- Identify structural problems that impede the flow of information & Ensure that everyone is truly following and adhering to the company’s core processes and operating system with consistency.
- Create new ways to make them part of everyday life
- Resolves issues effectively—seeing real problems, being comfortable with conflict, calling out the problems, and solving the problems in a practical and healthy manner. Ensures the leadership team is healthy, functional, and cohesive.
- Find ways for the team to be able to take decisions by themselves and aligned with the vision, mission and the values and culture of Paradox
- With the Head of HR, create an organization where our A players are fulfilled
- Source, Recruit, Onboard people who stand out from the crowd
- Tracking company-wide sourcing KPIs.
- Set training standards and hiring and onboarding procedures
- Increase the competence of each manager in their ability to find and choose stars in their field
- Forecast requirements and prepare annual budget
- Oversee budgeting, reporting, planning, and auditing
- Manage staff levels, hours, wages and contract labor
- Proven experience as a Chief of Staff, Operational Manager, COO, Founders, CEO, CRO, Head of Operations, General Manager at least 3 years in a startup or scale up, we need someone who is immediately operational and has a global knowledge of all business functions
- You master and like modern tools and are comfortable with building processes.
- You are charismatic, have a strong ethic and a profound sense of humility.
- You are obsessed by performance, having ambitious goals and giving everything to achieve them & Excellence you must always strive to do better.
- Leadership: Catalyst for team cohesion and effective conflict management, you make others want to follow you
- You love people deeply: You like to be interested in others and you know how to create a link very easily.
- You enjoy managing the day-to-day aspects of the business. Be responsible for the P/L balance sheet and execution.
- Great At Planning - great at taking ideas and effectively initializing plans to make them a reality.
- Driven & Getting things done: this position requires a strong commitment and perseverance & you come with solutions, not problems, you have a doer mentality
- Love for structure and execution (An obsession with getting the house in order & You enjoy managing the day-to-day aspects of the business and to Be responsible for the and execution.)
- Comfort in conflict - you are at ease with defending your case with facts, until we find what’s right for the vision of the company - Jeff Bezos calls that “Disagree & Commit”
- Growth over Ego: you are eager to learn, and receive hard feedback to grow. You let others speak and seek to understand their viewpoints. You are comfortable in conflict: at ease with defending your case with facts, until we find what’s right for the vision of the company (Jeff Bezos calls that “Disagree & Commit”).
- Analytical and system thinker, Problem-solver: able to quickly identify and formulate problems, bottlenecks and obstacles, facilitate decision making, you are able to simplify extremely complex and chaotic issues into efficient solutions and systems quickly
- Tech and product savviness
- Cool under pressure
- You are inspired by the field of Edtech, coaching, personal development or training
- French: Native
- English: Fluent English, you can hold a conversation on specific details with English-speaking colleagues.
- Our CRM: Hubspot
- We are inspired by a culture of performance and ambition. We have a very startup-oriented culture where everything is fast-paced and there is a lot of change. You won’t always be told what to do or how to do it
- We tell each other things, even if they are uncomfortable. We value growth over ego. At Paradox, expressing disagreement to a manager and knowing how to debate is valued! We encourage critical and strategic thinking.
- You don’t like to be challenged and grow in your job
- You don't like receiving or giving tough feedbacks
- You don’t question the status quo: the process are there for a reason, we have always done it this way
- You like to have very specific & fixed tasks assigned to you. Be told what to do and how to do it.
- Your only driver is joining a full-remote company: yes, our company culture is cool, but we want people to care about our mission, products, and their job!
- those benefits are only for full-time employees
- Making things happen is a real struggle when you don’t know what truly inspires you and how to get there ;
- Available resources are either boring or full of crazy unsubstantiated theories .
- We travel the world and surround ourselves with top entrepreneurs (Richard Branson - Founder of Virgin, Marc Simoncini - Founder of Meeting, Fred Mazzella - Founder of BlablaCar), world athletes (Tony Parker - Hall of fame NBA Player, Frederick Bousquet - World record in 50m free swimming, Frank Leboeuf - WorldCup Footballer), and artists (Gad Elmaleh - Comedian, Franck Dubosc, Barry Osborne - Producer of Lord of the Rings and Matrix) ;
- We reverse engineer their strategies for achieving success and fulfillment and lean on the latest researches about neurosciences ️;
- We deliver trainings & educational contents around Power Skills (critical thinking, productivity, leadership, public speaking, coaching, stress management, etc.), self-growth and performance, through a balanced set of e-learning programs, events and edutainment videos .
- Helping 100 000 people achieve their dream and display their pictures on what we call the “100 000 dreams wall” ;
- Giving our clients access to constant personal growth by reinventing their learning experience ;
- Leverage AI and other technology to provide an outstanding customized experience to millions of people for them to transform their lives.
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