Find and Hire the Best Fractional COOs

Hire a
Fractional 
COO

Get matched with senior leaders
who can own your operations without the
cost or delay of a full-time hire
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You’ll be working with Fractional Jobs founder

Taylor Crane

What Does A Fractional CoO Do?

Everything a full-time operations leader would do, but on a flexible, part-time basis. Whether you’re exploring where to find a fractional COO or already in talks with candidates,
here’s what you can expect:

Operational Strategy

Define and implement company-wide systems, processes, and workflows that align with strategic goals, ensuring scalable operations, consistent execution, and measurable results across all business functions and departments.

Organizational Design

Build effective team structures, recruit top talent, and develop organizational frameworks that promote accountability, collaboration, and agility while positioning the company for sustainable growth and operational excellence.

Scaling Execution

Oversee daily operations to ensure systems, resources, and teams can support growth, balancing efficiency with agility and enabling the organization to meet evolving customer and market demands.

Process Optimization

Streamline operations by analyzing workflows, eliminating redundancies, and implementing best practices that improve efficiency, reduce costs, and free up resources for innovation and strategic initiatives.

KPI & Performance Tracking

Design dashboards, reporting structures, and metrics frameworks that provide operational clarity, enable accountability, and allow leadership to make data-driven decisions aligned with business objectives.

Vendor & Partner Management

Source, negotiate, and manage vendor and partner relationships, ensuring cost-effective solutions, reliable service delivery, and strong alignment with company goals and long-term strategy.

AI & Automation

Integrate automation tools and AI-driven workflows into core operations, modernizing processes, reducing manual inefficiencies, and creating scalable systems that sustain performance improvements long after implementation.

Board & Investor Communication

Translate operational performance into clear updates and narratives for investors and boards, inspiring confidence while demonstrating strong governance, disciplined execution, and sustainable business results.

Change Management

Lead organizational transformation by managing change initiatives, fostering adaptability, and aligning teams to embrace new processes, technologies, and strategic priorities without disrupting operational continuity.

FRACTIONAL COOs FOR START-UPS AND
EARLY STAGE GROWTH COMPANIES

Cost-Efficient Expertise

Access senior-level operational strategy without the overhead of a full-time hire.

Startups get top-tier experience for a fraction of the cost while still accelerating growth.

Speed to Impact

Plug in quickly with proven strategies, skipping the long ramp-up period of a permanent executive.

This allows startups to act immediately on pressing growth opportunities and market shifts.

Flexible Engagement

Scale scope and hours as your business evolves.

Companies avoid long-term commitments while matching expertise to changing needs across fundraising, launches, and new market entry.

Proven Playbooks

Apply experience from multiple startups and growth phases.

Tested approaches shorten the learning curve and focus efforts on tactics that drive growth.

How it Works

Designed to find
you a
Fractional COO
that will blow you away.

Tell us who you’re looking for
We send you the best candidates
You hire them directly. Ta da!
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You’ll be speaking with Fractional Jobs founder

Taylor Crane

It starts with the largest network of fractionals in the U.S. (& beyond!)

The challenge with most recruiting options is that you’re only reaching a small subset of available talent. However, we have virtually every fractional in our database. Seriously.

Your chance of finding the perfect match is only as good as your top-of-funnel. Our process starts by getting your opportunity in front of virtually everyone that could be a fit.

We’ll handpick the best 5 - 10 options for you.

We do the hard, tedious, work of sifting through all the interested candidates to identify the few that are exceptional fits for your need. We’ll send you their profiles to your email, and you tell us who you want to chat with.

This work is done by humans. We use AI to move faster, but humans outperform AI matching algorithms when quality matters.

Get email intros to the ones you like the most.

We make direct email introductions to the candidates you want to meet with. Then, we get out of the way from there. You can run your interview process however you want.

We’re here to help along the way, too. Use us as a sounding board or thought partner as you hone in on who the perfect fractional is for your needs.

Hire & pay your fractional directly. Not through us.

We are not a middleman! This is the best part about getting help from Fractional Jobs. We don’t take a % fee of the relationship like most marketplaces. You own the relationship with the candidate you hire.

Sign a contract with them directly. Pay them directly. You can even convert them into a full-time employee if there’s mutual interest.

Pricing

Unlike agencies or marketplaces that take an ongoing cut of your hire’s earnings, Fractional Jobs charges employers a one-time referral fee so every dollar you pay your COO goes directly to them.

1.

Fractional Jobs

How We Charge: One-time referral fee
Cost Over 1 year: $3K - $5K, depending on the role
Ongoing Fees? None, 100% of wages paid directly to your hire

2.

Recruitment Agencies

How They Charge: % of Salary, up front
Cost Over 1 year: $5-30K+ depending on the role
Ongoing Fees? Not ongoing, but fees are based on the negotiated salary

3.

Other Marketplaces

How They Charge: % commission on earnings
Cost Over 1 year: $10-50K+ depending on the role
Ongoing Fees? 10-20% ongoing markup of total fees paid

Get a list of the top 5 fractionals that match your needs.

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with Fractional Jobs founder

Open Jobs

Contentful - Head of Marketing
(contentful.com)
10hrs / up to $10k monthly / New York (remote)
Contentful - Head of Marketing
(contentful.com)
10hrs / up to $10k monthly / New York (remote)
Contentful - Head of Marketing
(contentful.com)
10hrs / up to $10k monthly / New York (remote)
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Hiring?

Fractional talent is ready today
Mid-level - executive talent only
Convert to full-time when ready
Ditch the W2 salaries, payroll tax, etc.
The list goes on. Read more here

Wall of Love

Companies love us for three reasons.

They love the candidates we send.
They love how much time we save them.
They love how fast we move.
"
Holy sh*t. I’m shocked. These candidates are impressive.
"
Anthony Geranio
CEO
"
The quality and quantity of the candidates we connected with were an order of magnitude better than we could have found with internal efforts and they were delivered to us on a silver platter at record speed. One of the most efficient and effective recruiting experiences I have experienced in my whole career.
"
Mark Jackson
CEO
"
Thanks a lot for this. Overall very impressed by the quality of profiles you sent through.
"
Lambert Despaux
CEO
"
Honestly doing it through you was affordable and quick and the candidates were high quality and saved us so much time.
"
Yasi Chehroudi
CEO
"
Ryan has been 10 out of 10. Best hire ever. We love him. Such a crusher.
"
John Beauprez
Co-founder
"
I particularly appreciated how quickly you were able to convert my goals into a JD and get it out to your audience.
"
Arjun Gopalratnam
Head of Product
"
Honestly doing it through you was affordable and quick and the candidates were high quality and saved us so much time.
"
Yasi Chehroudi
CEO
"
Ryan has been 10 out of 10. Best hire ever. We love him. Such a crusher.
"
John Beauprez
Co-founder
"
I particularly appreciated how quickly you were able to convert my goals into a JD and get it out to your audience.
"
Arjun Gopalratnam
Head of Product
At Fractional Jobs, we’ve made hundreds of placements that have had an outsized impact on our client’s organizations.

White Glove Support

The work is done by  humans. We’re supported by our in-house, best-in-class AI matching algorithm, but real people are going through every profile to ensure it’s a fit for your needs.

Technology is great, but we every one of our client’s is unique. We find and fix the gaps before you see them.

Largest Global Network

Fractional Jobs maintains the largest network of Fractional Talent, globally. Beyond our database, our founder Taylor Crane manages a fractional newsletter read by 25,000+ senior fractionals across the world.

Seriously, book a call and let us show you why our clients are so consistently impressed by the quantity and caliber of the talent in our network.

Comprehensive Resources

We provide dedicated support for every fractional hire, from onboarding to contract negotiation to templates.

We are a go-to resource for Fractional COOs and maintain a toolkit that supports them through every step of the journey. Fractional Jobs is the trusted source for fractional resources.

Own Your Relationship

Unlike other agencies or marketplaces, Fractional Jobs believes in letting you and your fractional talent completely own the relationship.

Set your contract terms, agree on a rate, and pay them directly! Fractional Jobs will never take a cut of your hire’s earnings.

LEARN MORE

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The best practices and case studies for companies to make fractional hiring successful.

MEET OUR FRACTIONAL COOs

We have virtually every
Fractional COO
in our database. Seriously.

Head of Procurement
CHRO
Process Improvement Manager
Compliance & Risk Director
Marketing Director
Program Management Director
Logistics Manager
Marketing Director
VP Marketing
Head of People & Culture
Head of Lifecycle
HR Director
Customer Success Director
VP Marketing
CMO
Revenue Operations (RevOps) Lead
Head of GTM
CCO
COO
CMO
Creative Director
VP Operations
Paid Media Specialist
Paid Media Specialist
Director of Business Operations
Head of Brand
VP Social
Head of Supply Chain
VP Social
AI Engineer
Neoshi Chhadva
Fractional Ops Leader
(prev.) Airbnb
Quyen Fahey
Fractional COO
(prev.) AWS
Ben Levinson
Fractional Ops Leader
(prev.) Latch
Kris Rohman
Fractional COO
(prev.) Lemonade
20,000+
fractional leaders in our network... and counting.

Senior Talent Only

Think c-suite execs, heads of, directors, and senior individual contributors.

We’re not a great fit if you’re looking for a junior freelancer. For that, you can try Upwork or Toptal.

Every Industry Covered

Anything tech & SaaS, eCommerce & DTC, professional services, SMBs, and more.

We can get really niche too, like “remote patient monitoring expertise in healthtech.”

Available Part-time

You could hire someone for 2, 10, 20 hrs per week, or anything in between. Up to you!

Some folks will even have capacity for 40 hrs per week interim roles.

All Major Geographies

Our network is primarily from the U.S. and Canada, with experience at U.S.-based companies.

But we have talent around the world, including the UK, EU, MENA, and elsewhere.
If you let us help your fractional search, there’s an 86% chance that you’ll hire one of the candidates we introduced you to.

Contact Us

For Companies

Book a call with us to get started.

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For Talent

Sign up here to join our network. It’s easy!

Have questions? Feedback?
Send us an email to

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For Partnerships

We also work with companies that want to advertise to an audience of fractional executives and other fractional talent.

To learn more, send us an email to

hello@fractionaljobs.io 

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Fractional Jobs is the talent network for fractional leaders and the companies looking to hire them. For talent, we offer the resources to break into fractional work successfully, and introductions to potential clients. For companies, we’ll help you hire fractional talent across 10+ different function areas.

Founded by Taylor Crane 

(Twitter & Linkedin)

+ a fractional team of developers, 

marketers, and more.