Operating Executive
Lyra Technology Group
$200,000 - $250,000 / year
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Description
Lyra Technology Group is a private equity-backed holding company that invests in and operates industry leading technology service businesses. Our companies are operated independently by exceptional management teams. Companies that join our group retain the employees, name, and culture that have made them successful. As a platform of Evergreen Services Group, we never divest from businesses we partner with and approach every decision with the goal of driving sustainable and healthy growth over the long term.
What sets Lyra apart are two things: our buy and hold strategy, and our company’s autonomous management. Unlike typical Private Equity investments with a three-to-five-year liquidation strategy, we buy businesses and invest in them for the long-term. We believe in the value of our acquisitions and want to grow. We bought our companies because they already had success in the marketplace. Instead of asking them to conform to a unified platform, we allow companies to keep their team, culture and branding in place.
We made our first acquisition at the beginning of 2018. Today, we hold a controlling stake in 120+ companies across the US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Our companies employ over 3,000 team members, each led by their own management team, and provide world-class support to over 12,000 clients.
The Role
- Own the business end to end: Set the vision and strategy, run the operating cadence, and answer for the company's overall performance.
- Build and/or optimize an organic growth engine: Build a repeatable growth engine: ideal client profile, pricing, sales and marketing motion, and retention.
- Manage P&L responsibility for a multi-million-dollar business: Own the full P&L, manage margin through delivery efficiency, and drive the budget and board reporting.
- Lead and develop a high-performing team: Develop people into bigger roles, and build a culture ambitious people want to stay in.
The Community
You will not do this alone. You will join a group of peer executives across our businesses who meet regularly, share what is working, and work through problems together. You will have access to shared resources across the platform, alongside direct support from the group's leadership on the decisions that matter most. Most CEOs tell us this supprt is the thing they underestimated going in.
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, IT, or related field. MBA a plus, not required.
- Operating track record: Proven ownership of revenue, margin, or delivery results, ideally in tech or services. MSP experience a strong plus.
- Financial Depth: Hands-on experience owning a P&L or managing a budget.
- People leadership: Track record building, developing, and, when needed, restructuring teams.
- Resourceful and hands-on: Comfortable working in the details of a small, lean business with no bench to lean on.
- Communication and client relationships: Confident with senior clients and skilled at translating technical realities into business terms.
- Data-driven mindset: Manages by KPIs and dashboards, comfortable working with imperfect data. Be specific: include metrics you owned or dashboards you built.
- SMB or senior leadership experience: Experience running or in senior leadership at a small or mid-sized business is a strong plus. So is a founder's mindset. If you've built something from scratch and know what it takes to make payroll, we want to hear about it.
This role is targeting a base compensation within the range of $200,000-$250,000 per year, plus bonus.
Benefits
- stock options
About this role
Lyra Technology Group is seeking an Operating Executive to lead one of its portfolio companies as a full P&L owner. You would set strategy, build or refine the growth engine, manage margins and budgets, and develop the leadership team—essentially running the business end to end. The role sits within a platform of 120+ companies, so while you own autonomous decision-making, you'll have peer executives and shared resources to draw on when it matters.
The ideal candidate has proven track record owning revenue, margin, or delivery results, preferably in tech services or as an MSP. You need hands-on financial depth (P&L or budget ownership), demonstrated ability to build and restructure teams, and comfort operating lean without a large support bench. Strong communication skills with senior clients and a data-driven approach to managing KPIs are essential. SMB leadership experience, founder's mindset, or a background in a small to mid-sized business is a significant plus.
This is a full-time, in-office role in Philadelphia with base compensation of $200,000–$250,000 annually plus bonus. Lyra's model differs from typical private equity: it buys and holds long-term, lets portfolio companies retain their identity and culture, and invests in sustainable growth rather than a quick exit.
Typical pay for this role
$60,000
Typical range: $20,000 to $120,000
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