The founder is carrying too much
Important decisions, cross-functional work, and operating cadence still route through one person.
Executive & Business Operations Search
Add the leadership capacity your next stage demands.
Brass Tracks finds executives and operators who bring structure, judgment, and leverage to businesses moving faster than their internal capacity.
Discuss a critical hireWhere the search gets difficult
The title is familiar. The mandate is not.
These hires sit close to the founder and touch the whole business. The wrong person adds process. The right person creates clarity, raises the standard, and gives leadership room to operate.
Roles we fill
- Chief Operating Officer
- Chief of Staff
- Finance & Strategic Finance Leadership
- Strategy & Business Operations
- Program & Project Leadership
- People & Talent Leadership
Markets we know
- B2B SaaS
- Gov & Defense Tech
- Infrastructure & Construction Tech
- AI & Machine Learning
- FinTech
The role spans multiple disciplines
The mandate may combine finance, operations, strategy, programs, or people leadership in a way standard titles fail to describe.
Trust matters as much as experience
The hire needs the judgment to act independently and the self-awareness to work without creating organizational drag.
The Brass Tracks read
A search built around evidence, not activity.
Define the leverage
We identify what must come off the leadership team's plate and what decisions the new hire must own twelve months from now.
Search beyond matching titles
We map adjacent operators whose scope, complexity, and decision-making evidence match the real mandate, even when their title does not.
Assess judgment in context
Introductions include a direct read on operating style, tradeoffs, influence, pace, and the conditions in which the candidate performs best.
Related search results
The mandate was narrow. The result was measurable.
Focused answers
Before we begin.
How senior are the searches you lead?
Brass Tracks works from high-leverage functional leaders through C-suite mandates, as well as specialized operators whose decisions materially affect the business.
Can you help us define a role that does not fit a standard title?
Yes. Many growth-stage mandates begin as a business constraint rather than a finished job description. We define the outcomes, ownership, and accepted tradeoffs first.
Do you recruit former military leaders?
Yes, when the mandate benefits from their operating evidence. Military background is treated as a source of relevant leadership experience, not as a substitute for role fit.
Bring the difficult mandate
Get a candid read on the role before the search costs you a quarter.
Tell us what the hire needs to make possible. You will speak directly with Tim Paul about the mandate, the market, and the path forward.
Confidential. No obligation. No junior handoff.