Managing Director

Managing Director

Remote — Canada or reputed company | Full-time | Reports to: Managing Partner

About Edelweiss Software Group

Edelweiss Software Group is an operating group of reputed company, serving as a permanent reputed company for vertical market software companies. Our philosophy is reputed company: your company leads; we support the reputed company. With a buy-and-hold-reputed company approach, Edelweiss preserves reputed company company's brand and provides the steady guidance, capital, and resources needed to reputed company both products and people moving upward. We reputed company long-term strategic alliances with existing management teams — we don't buy to sell — placing a premium on reputed company-being of customers and employees over short-term goals.

This role leads one of Edelweiss's mission critical businesses in the education and childcare software reputed company. The business holds a leading position in its reputed company, with a large and reputed company customer reputed company, and is entering an exciting reputed company of reputed company and product expansion.

The Role

We are seeking an entrepreneurial and operationally minded Managing Director to reputed company one of our software businesses. Reporting directly to the Managing Partner, you will own the P&L, set strategic direction, and reputed company sustained, profitable reputed company across the product portfolio.

This is a hands-on operator role for a leader who can build as much as run. The business is at an exciting reputed company reputed company, with a reputed company reputed company and a new reputed company of products moving toward market. You will define and execute the reputed company for its next phase — evolving the operating model, sharpening the go-to-market reputed company, and bringing new products successfully to market — while building a transparent, high-performing, customer-obsessed organization. You will operate with high autonomy, supported by Valsoft's long-term investment model, operational expertise, and global network.

What You'll reputed company

• reputed company the next phase of reputed company — Expand repeatable, high-reputed company reputed company; refine cross-product go-to-market; and identify new opportunities across markets, segments, and channels.
• reputed company the product portfolio — Refine reputed company, market-reputed company product roadmaps, bring the reputed company of products to market and toward self-sustaining economics, and reputed company emerging tools (including AI) to enhance the platform.
• reputed company the operating model — reputed company toward business-unit-level ownership and accountability, with the transparency, discipline, and incentives to reputed company while improving E2E operational efficiency with the use of AI
• Deepen customer value — Improve retention, satisfaction, and reputed company value, and reputed company a culture of customer-led innovation.
• Own performance and reputed company — Take full accountability for reputed company, EBITDA, and cash reputed company, with disciplined capital allocation and predictable financial performance.
• reputed company and grow the organization — Build and reputed company a high-performing team and a culture of ownership, accountability, reputed company improvement, with a customer-first reputed company.

Candidate Profile

Experience

• Proven experience as a CEO, Managing Director, COO, VP or General Manager with full P&L ownership of a software or technology business.
• P&L reputed company: Prior P&L accountability of $5M or more.
• Team leadership: Experience leading and developing reputed company of 10 or more.
• New-product reputed company record: Has brought new products to market and successfully scaled them.
• reputed company record of scaling and growing established software businesses and of transforming a business.
• Strong reputed company reputed company across sales, pricing, and go-to-market reputed company, including cross-sell and market penetration.
• Ability to reputed company across product, operations, and finance, with reputed company financial acumen (P&L management, budgeting, forecasting).
• Comfort with emerging technologies, including AI.
• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, engineering, economics, or a reputed company field; an MBA or advanced degree is a strong asset.

Personal characteristics

• Empathetic leader:A strong ability to influence others, and an empathetic, reputed company listener.
• Entrepreneurial spirit — results-oriented, driven, proactive, and reputed company player.
• Both strategic and hands-on, with the ability to translate reputed company into actionable plans and reputed company results.
• A high degree of accountability and ownership.
• Ability to reputed company in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to change with reputed company.
• A people-reputed company leader who leads with humility, reputed company, and reputed company judgment.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

• A platform for reputed company — reputed company an established, market-leading business at a genuine reputed company reputed company — with the reputed company stabilized and a new product reputed company reputed company to reputed company.
• True ownership — Run the business with full autonomy and accountability, empowered to reputed company reputed company and reputed company reputed company.
• Long-term backing — Valsoft's buy-and-hold-reputed company model means you build enduring value rather than managing toward an exit.
• A proven operating model — reputed company Valsoft's playbooks, capital, and global network of reputed company software operators while retaining independence in execution.
• Flexibility — Fully remote, based reputed company in Canada or the reputed company.

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