Archived listing. The details below describe a past opening.
About Myant:
The Opportunity:
Myant is at a pivotal stage of growth as it advances the commercialization of its textile computing, connected health and healthcare technology platforms.
Reporting directly to the Founder & CEO, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) will serve as the company's principal operating executive and the CEO's primary operating partner. The COO will be responsible for turning Myant's vision and strategic priorities into disciplined, measurable execution across the organization.
The CEO will remain focused on vision, product direction, strategic partnerships and capital. The COO will own the execution engine of the company, aligning people, businesses, operations, commercial activities and resources around clear priorities, measurable outcomes and committed timelines.
This is a highly hands-on enterprise leadership role spanning commercialization, operations and supply chain, manufacturing, healthcare delivery, product execution, organizational performance and integration of acquired businesses.
The successful candidate will bring the operating discipline required to lead a complex, rapidly scaling organization, combined with the commercial judgment, financial acumen and strategic perspective to make enterprise-level decisions in a high-growth environment.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Leadership & Execution
- Serve as the CEO's primary operating partner and trusted advisor, ensuring strategic priorities are translated into clear operating plans, accountabilities and measurable outcomes.
- Lead the day-to-day execution of the operating company, ensuring alignment across business units, corporate functions and geographic operations.
- Establish and maintain the operating cadence, governance structures, KPIs, reporting and decision-making processes required to drive accountability and execution.
- Translate enterprise objectives into annual and quarterly operating plans, resource requirements and measurable performance commitments.
- Identify execution risks, remove organizational barriers and ensure critical initiatives remain on schedule.
- Act as an extension of the CEO across the organization and, when appropriate, represent Myant with customers, partners, investors and other external stakeholders.
- Build a culture of ownership, urgency, accountability and cross-functional collaboration.
Commercialization, Revenue & Market Execution
- Lead execution of Myant's commercial and market-launch priorities, with particular focus on the Canadian market and expansion into the United States.
- Partner with commercial and business unit leaders to translate product and market strategies into executable go-to-market plans.
- Drive accountability for revenue, volume, customer acquisition, commercial partnerships and market expansion.
- Ensure commercial teams have the organizational structure, resources, processes and operational support required to execute effectively.
- Monitor commercial performance against plan and intervene quickly when performance is off track.
- Work across healthcare, technology, benefits, manufacturing and other strategic channels to support the development of scalable revenue opportunities.
- Ensure the organization is operationally prepared to support major product launches and market expansion.
Healthcare Operations & Care Delivery
- Provide executive oversight of Myant's healthcare delivery operations, including clinics, clinical partnerships, cardiologist networks and remote monitoring activities.
- Ensure healthcare operations can scale in parallel with commercial growth while maintaining appropriate service levels, quality and patient outcomes.
- Establish operational metrics and accountability for clinical capacity, service delivery, turnaround times and customer/patient experience.
- Partner with clinical, regulatory, product and commercial leadership to ensure healthcare operations are integrated into the broader Myant operating model.
- Build the organizational and operational infrastructure required to support expansion of Myant's connected healthcare services.
Operations, Supply Chain & Manufacturing
- Lead enterprise operational planning across supply chain, manufacturing, production, logistics and operational infrastructure.
- Ensure manufacturing capacity and supply chain capabilities are aligned with commercial demand and product launch requirements.
- Provide executive oversight of DTX manufacturing operations and the ramp-up of production capabilities.
- Drive operational efficiency, unit economics, quality, reliability and scalability across manufacturing and supply chain activities.
- Lead the integration and consolidation of manufacturing capabilities where required to support Myant's long-term operating model.
- Establish clear operating metrics and accountability for cost, capacity, quality, delivery and production performance.
Product & Delivery Execution
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Clinical, Regulatory and Commercial leadership to ensure critical products and initiatives are delivered against committed timelines.
- Establish clear cross-functional ownership and escalation mechanisms for major product launches and strategic initiatives.
- Ensure operational readiness across manufacturing, supply chain, clinical delivery, customer support and commercial functions ahead of major launches.
- Maintain executive visibility into critical-path initiatives, dependencies, risks and resource requirements.
- Drive a culture in which commitments are clearly defined, tracked and delivered.
Integration & Organizational Transformation
- Lead the operational integration of acquired businesses into Myant's broader operating model.
- Establish common systems, reporting, processes, governance and performance expectations across acquired and legacy businesses.
- Assess organizational structures and leadership requirements as the company evolves.
- Ensure key leadership positions, capabilities and accountabilities are in place to support the company's growth agenda.
- Lead enterprise-wide change initiatives while maintaining business continuity and organizational focus.
- Build an organization capable of operating effectively at increasing scale and complexity.
Financial & Performance Management
- Partner closely with Finance leadership to ensure rigorous operating plans, forecasting, budgeting and performance management.
- Own operating accountability for the relationship between revenue, cost, unit economics, resource allocation and cash requirements.
- Use financial and operational data to make disciplined decisions regarding investments, capacity, hiring, partnerships and strategic initiatives.
- Establish clear performance metrics and management reporting across the operating company.
- Ensure operating leaders understand and are accountable for the financial implications of their decisions.
- Support the CEO and Board with operating analysis, planning and enterprise performance reporting.
- Bring the financial sophistication required to evaluate major investments, acquisitions and growth opportunities without functioning as the company's principal finance executive.
Strategic Partnerships & Enterprise Development
- Work with the CEO and executive leadership team to execute strategic partnerships and commercial relationships that support Myant's growth.
- Support strategic transactions, acquisitions and other opportunities that expand Myant's capabilities, markets or enterprise value.
- Build trusted relationships with healthcare organizations, industry partners, manufacturing partners, investors and other strategic stakeholders.
- Translate strategic opportunities into executable operating plans and measurable business outcomes.
First-Year Priorities
The COO's initial mandate will be focused on establishing a disciplined operating model while accelerating Myant's commercialization and scale. These will include:
- Establishing a clear enterprise operating cadence, KPI framework and performance-management system.
- Driving execution of the Canadian commercial launch and preparing the organization for US market entry.
- Scaling commercial and healthcare delivery operations in line with demand.
- Ensuring product and launch commitments are delivered on schedule.
- Establishing the manufacturing and supply-chain capabilities required to support planned growth.
- Improving unit economics, operating efficiency and cash discipline.
- Integrating acquired businesses onto common operating, reporting and management systems.
- Strengthening the leadership structure, organizational accountability and capabilities required for the next stage of growth.
Success will be measured by business performance, execution against committed milestones, operational scalability, financial discipline, integration progress and the strength of the organization built to support Myant's continued growth.
Ideal Candidate Profile
The successful candidate will be an accomplished operating executive who has led a complex organization through significant growth, commercialization, transformation or integration.
You are a builder and operator, someone who can move comfortably between enterprise strategy and the details required to make the organization execute.
You will be equally comfortable:
- Working directly with a Founder/CEO on enterprise priorities;
- Holding business and functional leaders accountable for measurable results;
- Leading commercial and operational execution;
- Managing complex manufacturing and supply-chain environments;
- Scaling healthcare or technology-enabled operations;
- Integrating acquired businesses;
- Using financial and operating data to allocate resources and make decisions; and
- Representing the company with customers, partners, investors and other senior stakeholders.
The strongest candidates will combine the execution discipline of a world-class COO, the commercial orientation of a business leader, and the financial acumen required to operate at enterprise level.
Qualifications & Experience
- 15+ years of progressively senior leadership experience, including significant responsibility for operations, business leadership, commercialization, strategy, transformation or enterprise management.
- Demonstrated experience operating as a senior executive directly supporting or partnering with a CEO.
- Proven success scaling a complex organization through significant growth, transformation, commercialization or operational change.
- Experience with enterprise-level operating responsibility and meaningful P&L accountability.
- Demonstrated ability to establish operating plans, KPIs, management systems and accountability structures that improve execution.
- Strong commercial orientation and demonstrated experience translating strategy into revenue and business results.
- Experience overseeing operations, supply chain, manufacturing, healthcare delivery or other complex operating environments.
- Experience integrating acquisitions or businesses into a common operating model is highly desirable.
- Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, unit economics, resource allocation and investment analysis.
- Experience working with Boards, investors, strategic partners and senior external stakeholders.
- Experience in technology, healthcare, medtech, digital health, advanced manufacturing, AI-enabled businesses or other innovation-driven environments strongly preferred.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, judgment and stakeholder-management capabilities.
- Bachelor's degree required; MBA, engineering, finance/accounting designation or other advanced credentials are considered assets.
Why Join Myant
Myant is building a new category of connected healthcare through textile computing; bringing sensing, data and intelligent technology closer to the human body.
The company is entering a critical stage as it moves from technology development and innovation toward scaled commercialization, healthcare delivery and global market expansion. This is an opportunity to lead the operating agenda of a highly ambitious technology company at a pivotal point in its evolution.
The COO will have the opportunity to shape how Myant operates, scales and commercializes, while building the organizational capabilities, leadership team and operating infrastructure required for the company's next stage of growth.
