Chief Delivery Officer - Remote

Chief Delivery Officer Location: Remote / Hybrid (UK Registry Base) Model: Venture Track / Ownership-Led Position Overview Stride Insights is searching for a visionary Project Manager / Solutions Architect to fill the vital founding seat of Chief Delivery Officer. This rare executive venture track invites a technically brilliant leader to step away from traditional corporate ceilings and secure an 8% equity ownership stake, paired with an executive profit-share agreement driven directly by immediate revenue delivery. During the initial foundational build window (Months 0–12), your focus centres on establishing the infrastructure, delivery mechanics, and consulting bench needed to de-risk complex technical audits. You will govern delivery quality, optimize margin controls, and transform deep architectural assessments into definitive client execution plans. Core Mandate & Responsibilities - Technical Integrity & Bench Development: Source, vet, onboard, and manage a highly capable freelance consulting bench (Tier 1 Lead Consultants and Tier 2 Data Analysts) with sufficient capacity overlap. - Strategic Advisory Frameworks: Author, govern, and formally benchmark the proprietary workflow-mapping templates, time-waste scoring models, and Departmental Deep-Dive blueprints. - Ecosystem Governance & De-risking: Ensure 100% seamless operational routing and technical hand-offs to downstream StrideNex delivery subsidiaries, achieving a target of zero delivery failures. - Elite Consulting Margin Control: Maintain a sustained 70% Gross Profit margin across freelance-delivered audits while guaranteeing an average client satisfaction rating of 90%+. Required Profile & Technical Literacy ·        The Blueprint: A broad-spectrum technical systems leader possessing deep expertise across SaaS ecosystems, complex API frameworks, and AI integrations. ·        Consultancy: Experience working as a consultant and having the ability to communicate with enterprise executives, challenge their assumptions constructively and act as a trusted advisor. Strong executive presence required to challenge mid-market founders and logically dissect operational drag for C-suite clients. ·        Leadership: Ability to manage a group of freelance Consultants. ·        Stakeholder Management: Ability to engage with senior stakeholders of a multimillion-pound client companies in a confident, reassuring manner. ·        Roadmap: Ability to create a detailed roadmap that outlines the steps and technologies needed to achieve client requirements. ·        Client Facing: Meet with clients to understand their business requirements and technical challenges, analyse these needs to design robust and scalable solutions. Develop and present proposals and demonstrations to clients when required. ·        Objection Handling: Experience in objection handling, especially in technical and complex B2B sales environments, requiring deep product expertise, system knowledge, and strategic thinking to address client concerns effectively. ·        Commercial Literacy: Ability to understand professional services economics, including managing utilization rates (billable vs. non-billable time), target gross margins, pricing strategies (fixed fee, time-and-materials, or value-based pricing), and overall department P&L. ·        Framework Development:  Ability to productise intellectual property, turning consulting talent into repeatable, scalable methodologies, playbooks, and toolkits that the whole team can use. ·        Time Commitment: Commitment threshold is a minimum of 24 hours per week. ·        Infrastructure: Expected to use own laptop / phone and have a stable Broadband connection. Staged Remuneration Structure - Phase 1 (Ownership-Led): Foundational scale phase. Rewards are driven directly by milestone equity allocations (up to 8%), and performance profit shares derived from consulting delivery. - Phase 2 (Stability-First): Activated as financial capacity expands, with ongoing performance profit shares derived from consulting delivery, plus tailored executive salary introduction paired with ongoing dividend participation backed by the 50% Profit After Tax group framework.