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Solen owns several software companies in various market spaces: Human Resource Technology, Fleet Telematics, Asset Management, E-Health, Document Management, and other innovative software solutions in a variety of industries. Solen is backed by a group of advisors and investors that have built software businesses of material scale (10-100M in ARR) and advised many.\nAbout The Role\nThe Growth Operating Partner will lead a portfolio of Solen operating companies (OpCos), owning their operating performance, growth, and value creation.\nThis role is responsible for driving profitable growth across the portfolio, deploying capital into new acquisitions, building strong OpCo leadership teams, and turning AI into new recurring revenue. The Operating Partner will build and own value creation plans for each OpCo and put in place repeatable systems and playbooks that work across the portfolio, not one-off fixes for a single company.\nThis is a highly strategic, hands-on leadership role, equally comfortable in board-level strategy and day-to-day OpCo operations.\nKey Responsibilities\nPortfolio Operating Model\nOperate the portfolio against Solen's operating model targets for growth, profitability, and retention.\nBuild and own value creation plans for each OpCo, and deliver their expected results.\nLead Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews with OpCo leadership, holding teams accountable to plan.\nBuild repeatable systems and playbooks that can be applied across the portfolio.\nCapital Deployment & Acquisitions\nDeploy capital into acquisitions that grow the portfolio, in line with Solen's buy-and-hold operating model.\nSource, evaluate, and support diligence on acquisition opportunities with a disciplined, ROI-driven approach.\nLead post-acquisition integration and onboarding into the Solen operating model.\nOrganic Growth & Profitability\nHyper-grow portfolio companies while keeping them profitable.\nDrive organic EEBITDA growth through revenue expansion, pricing, and operational efficiency.\nBuild product roadmaps with OpCo leaders, prioritizing based on ROI, development effort, and time-to-market.\nAI Adoption & Revenue\nPromote AI adoption across portfolio companies.\nGenerate new ARR by adding AI capabilities to existing products and launching new AI-enabled products.\nTalent\nRecruit, coach, and retain strong OpCo leaders.\nPlace A-Players in Key Seats and raise talent density across the portfolio.\nDevelop team members into A-Players.\nWhat We're Looking For\nHands-on operator: You are equally comfortable in board-level strategy and day-to-day OpCo firefighting.\nSystems builder: You build repeatable systems and playbooks across a portfolio, not one-off fixes for a single company.\nTalent magnet: You recruit, coach, and retain strong OpCo leaders and develop team members into A Players.\nNumbers-driven and ROI-disciplined: You apply ROI discipline to every initiative, hire, and acquisition decision, with a buy-and-hold mindset.\nProven value creator: You have deployed capital and grown software companies quickly while keeping them profitable, and you have built and delivered value creation plans.\nAI-forward: You have driven AI adoption and launched revenue-generating AI capabilities or products.\nLives the Solen-isms: You operate by the Solen-isms and the Solen Principles of Transformation.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nThe portfolio operates at a Rule of 40 score of 45%+, NRR of 100%-110%+, GRR of 90%-95%+, and 20%+ yearly ARR growth.\n$2.5M of EEBITDA is acquired each year through new acquisitions.\nThe portfolio delivers $17.6M of organic EEBITDA.\nA Player talent density across the portfolio improves to 1.5x baseline, with A Players in all Key Seats.\nAt least $1M in additional portfolio ARR comes from new AI capabilities and AI-enabled products.\nSolen-isms (How We Operate)\nOwnership Mindset: We own the mission. We don't wait to be told. We lead, fix, and build as if it were ours. When problems arise, we run toward them, not away.\nBenchmark to Best: We seek out excellence. We measure ourselves against the best and adapt quickly, always looking for the edge that moves us forward.\nOpenly Self-Critical: Leaders go first: they surface their misses early, ask for direct feedback, and turn “game film” into better decisions and better systems.\nDisagree & Commit: Leaders disagree openly and constructively, regardless of title or tenure, because truth is how we avoid bureaucracy and benchmark to best.\nFigureitoutiveness: Embracing challenges, fostering growth, and taking initiative, leaders thrive on hard work and high failure tolerance.\nMutual Elevation: Committed to growth, elevating teams, developing future leaders, and removing barriers to mastery and joy.\nLearn-it-alls: Learn-it-alls, not know-it-alls, embracing failure as part of growth and progress.\nPioneering: Pioneering driven by opportunity, using first principles thinking and unbound by tradition or rules.\nWill to Win: Leaders relentlessly pursue potential, reject mediocrity, and get what they tolerate.\nDialectical: We learn through conversation. We ask, listen, question, and evolve - valuing disagreement as a tool for alignment and deeper understanding.\nFrugality: Achieving more with less, focusing on quality, long-term value, and company-wide responsibility.\nCandor: We communicate with integrity, transparency, and respect in all conversations.\nKaizen: Kaizen is continuous improvement as a way of life. Leaders make hundreds of small upgrades that compound, turning lessons into standards and standards into durable systems.\nRecruitment Disclaimer\nSolen Software Group will never request payment, banking information, or other sensitive personal or financial details during any stage of the recruitment process. All official communication will come from a verified @solensoftwaregroup.com email address. Any outreach outside these standards should be disregarded and reported through our official channels.\nWe thank all applicants for their interest in joining Solen Software Group. 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