Group CEO - Solen

Group CEO Opportunity at Solen

Solen is a permanent capital investment firm with a unique focus on acquiring exceptional vertical software companies with a long time horizon.

We are seeking a highly motivated and visionary Group CEO to oversee a diverse portfolio of small operating companies within our investment ecosystem. As the driving force behind these companies, the Group CEO will play a pivotal role in steering each entity towards operational excellence, growth, and the realization of their full potential.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute a comprehensive strategic vision for each portfolio company, aligning their goals with Solen's long-term objectives. Provide clear direction and guidance to each company's executive team.
• Operational Excellence: Ensure each portfolio company operates efficiently, meets performance targets, and optimizes resources. Collaborate with leadership teams to implement best practices and drive profitability.
• Mergers and Acquisitions: Oversee the identification, evaluation, and execution of potential M&A opportunities for portfolio companies. Play a key role in managing integration efforts post-acquisition.
• Financial Management: Manage financial performance across the portfolio, including budgeting, forecasting, and capital allocation. Optimize financial structures to enhance profitability and ensure financial sustainability.
• Team Leadership: Cultivate a culture of excellence, innovation, and collaboration within each portfolio company. Inspire and lead diverse teams to achieve their highest potential.
• Stakeholder Relations: Develop and maintain strong relationships with boards of directors, shareholders, and other key stakeholders. Represent Solen and its portfolio companies with professionalism and integrity.
• Technology and Innovation: Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies, ensuring that portfolio companies remain at the forefront of their respective markets. Encourage innovation and technology adoption.
• Strategic Planning: Collaborate with Solen's executive leadership team to shape the strategic direction of the entire investment portfolio.

Requirements

• MBA degree or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated resilience and adaptability in overcoming obstacles.
• Strong leadership skills to inspire and unite teams.
• Proven experience in leading and scaling small to mid-sized companies.

Benefits

• Unique exposure to a diverse mix of challenges across multiple industries.
• Development of skills in growing, cultivating, and creating enterprise value within a software context.
• Autonomy and responsibility in decision-making and leadership roles.
• Exposure to cross-functional collaboration and teamwork.
• Mentorship from seasoned operating partners.
• Opportunity to transition into senior leadership positions within Solen's affiliated companies.
• U.S. Visa sponsorship for eligible candidates.

Solen-isms (How We Operate)

Ownership 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.

Benchmark to Best: We seek out excellence. We measure ourselves against the best and adapt quickly, always looking for the edge that moves us forward.

Openly Self-Critical: Leaders go first: they surface their misses early, ask for direct feedback, and turn "game film" into better decisions and better systems.

Disagree & Commit: Leaders disagree openly and constructively, regardless of title or tenure, because truth is how we avoid bureaucracy and benchmark to best.

Figureitoutiveness: Embracing challenges, fostering growth, and taking initiative, leaders thrive on hard work and high failure tolerance.

Mutual Elevation: Committed to growth, elevating teams, developing future leaders, and removing barriers to mastery and joy.

Learn-it-alls: Learn-it-alls, not know-it-alls, embracing failure as part of growth and progress.

Pioneering: Pioneering driven by opportunity, using first principles thinking and unbound by tradition or rules.

Will to Win: Leaders relentlessly pursue potential, reject mediocrity, and get what they tolerate.

Dialectical: We learn through conversation. We ask, listen, question, and evolve — valuing disagreement as a tool for alignment and deeper understanding.

Frugality: Achieving more with less, focusing on quality, long-term value, and company-wide responsibility.

Candor: We communicate with integrity, transparency, and respect in all conversations.

Kaizen: 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.

Recruitment Disclaimer

Solen 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.

We thank all applicants for their interest in joining Solen Software Group. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.