Chief Operating Officer

Job Overview

About Golden Child Golden Child is redefining pet nutrition through an uncompromising focus on health, quality, and culinary craftsmanship.

A Miami-based startup, we've built a founding team of board-certified veterinary nutritionists, supply chain experts, and classically trained chefs to engineer a food system held to human-grade standards.

Job Description

Golden Child offers Our chef-crafted, science-backed Mains and functional Drizzles that are designed to support lifelong health. Because feeding your dog should be an expression of love, care, and taste.

The Role Golden Child is looking for a COO to build and scale the operating engine behind the business. You will own the journey from ingredient sourcing and manufacturing through inventory, fulfillment, and delivery to the customer.

You will also be responsible for building the systems, supplier network, cost structure, and operational capabilities required to scale Golden Child from an early-stage DTC business into a national, omnichannel consumer brand. This is a highly hands-on role.

You will report directly to the CEO and work closely with our Culinary, Veterinary Nutrition, Product, Finance, and Growth teams. What You'll Own 1.

Build a resilient supplier and manufacturing network with appropriate redundancy while maintaining exceptional standards for quality, freshness, and customer experience. 2. Gross Margin & Unit Economics: Own the operational levers of gross margin improvement.

Identify and execute opportunities across ingredient sourcing, packaging, manufacturing, freight, fulfillment, waste, vendor terms, and operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Golden Child offers Our chef-crafted, science-backed Mains and functional Drizzles that are designed to support lifelong health.
• The Role Golden Child is looking for a COO to build and scale the operating engine behind the business.
• You will own the journey from ingredient sourcing and manufacturing through inventory, fulfillment, and delivery to the customer.
• You will also be responsible for building the systems, supplier network, cost structure, and operational capabilities required to scale Golden Child from an early-stage DTC business into a national, omnichannel consumer brand.
• You will operate at both the strategic and executional level: negotiating with suppliers, solving production challenges, improving unit economics, building operating systems, and determining which capabilities Golden Child should own versus outsource.
• You will report directly to the CEO and work closely with our Culinary, Veterinary Nutrition, Product, Finance, and Growth teams.
• Supply Chain & Fulfillment: Own Golden Child's end-to-end supply chain, including ingredient and packaging sourcing, supplier relationships, co-manufacturing, production planning, inventory, cold-chain logistics, fulfillment, and delivery.
• Build a resilient supplier and manufacturing network with appropriate redundancy while maintaining exceptional standards for quality, freshness, and customer experience.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• You will also be responsible for building the systems, supplier network, cost structure, and operational capabilities required to scale Golden Child from an early-stage DTC business into a national, omnichannel consumer brand.
• Build a resilient supplier and manufacturing network with appropriate redundancy while maintaining exceptional standards for quality, freshness, and customer experience.
• Manufacturing & Operational Scale: Build the manufacturing and operational infrastructure required to support significant growth.
• What We're Looking For 10+ years of progressively senior operations, supply chain, manufacturing, or related experience Experience scaling a high-growth consumer business, ideally in food, beverage, supplements, or another operationally complex CPG category Deep experience with manufacturing partners, supplier negotiations, sourcing, production planning, inventory, and logistics Strong command of COGS, gross margin, and unit economics, with a track record of materially improving them Experience building operational systems and processes during periods of rapid growth Experience evaluating and/or executing in-house manufacturing or vertical integration is a plus Strong analytical and systems-thinking capabilities Comfortable moving between executive-level strategy and hands-on problem solving High standards for product quality and customer experience Entrepreneurial, resourceful, and energized by building from an early stage What Success Looks Like The right COO will make Golden Child more scalable, more resilient, and more economically efficient without compromising the quality of the product.
• If you’re excited about this role, but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

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