Company
New York Kids Club is New York’s premier children’s enrichment space, renowned for creative and innovative children’s classes, day camps, birthday celebrations, and special events! Their unique and original curricula provide children the opportunity to build confidence and express their individuality through participation in physically challenging, artistically enriching, and intellectually stimulating programs. The affiliated programs at New York Preschool are a leading preschool choice for the years leading up to kindergarten. NY Preschool students outperform other Kindergarteners by 75% in reading and math.
Investors
Deerpath Capital Management, is a provider of flexible, cash flow-based private debt financing to lower-middle market companies across diverse industries. Deerpath approaches each investment as an opportunity to establish long term relationships with private equity sponsors, management teams, and entrepreneurs. They leverage their extensive investment experience to offer flexible financing solutions to fit the needs of each company with competitive terms and structures.
Opportunity
Reporting to the New York Kids Club and Preschool board, the CEO will employ their understanding of NYC, multi-unit, customer focused businesses, to grow revenue, improve operational excellence, create a solid financial structure, and increase brand recognition.
Primary responsibilities:
- Increase profitability to pre-covid levels
- Ensure that all areas of the company are primed to scale beyond pre-covid capacity
- Hire a CFO and collaboratively establish KPIs and budget
- Create a repeatable business model that can be expanded throughout northeast and ultimately across the US
- Foster a culture of excellence, growth, and continuous improvement
Ideal Candidate
You have an entrepreneurial mindset with experience leading, building, and growing companies; a top-line revenue generator with previous P&L leadership experience. You have successfully led multi unit businesses in New York, and have the ability to create a successful, repeatable business model for expanding the Kids Club and Preschool into the northeast and beyond.
You should have the following skill sets:
- Experience creating a strategic roadmap to increase profitability
- The presence to inspire and energize staff at all levels of an organization
- Experience hiring, developing, and leading a strong finance team
- High EQ with the ability to communicate effectively to a disparate group of stakeholders
- Ability to work with high accountability to a supportive board
Compensation will include salary, performance bonus, and equity
Must live in the New York area or be able to commute their on a regular basis
Learn More
The Knowledge Leaders search process is thorough and may include: a written assessment, multiple interviews (recorded and in person), background and social media checks, employment and education verifications, a drug screen, and professional reference checking. After all, our mission is to transform education by recruiting the best world leaders.
If you have not already, submit your resume to Peggy Williams at Knowledge Leaders.
Knowledge Leaders, LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and candidates for employment. Knowledge Leaders, LLC prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type based on race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
