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About the Role
This is a high-impact opportunity to work directly alongside a seasoned Operating Leader, overseeing a portfolio of software businesses. As Chief of Staff, you become a trusted right hand to your Operating Leader and a close working partner to the CEOs and functional leaders across their companies. The role is deliberately broad, allowing you to shape go-to-market plans, improve customer onboarding, or stand up newly acquired businesses. You will gain exposure to software M&A and focus on hands-on value creation and operating work, owning initiatives end to end. The Executive Leadership Program (ELP) runs for two years with intentional development, spanning go-to-market, M&A, customer, and finance priorities. High performers can move into a CEO or C-suite role within a Banyan operating company or a leadership role at Banyan Software HQ. This is the fastest track to running a business for those who want to learn how great vertical software businesses are built and run.
Responsibilities
- Partner with CEOs and functional leaders across multiple operating companies to identify priorities and implement the Banyan Operating System, turning strategy into measurable operational improvements.
- Lead high-impact, cross-functional projects across product, go-to-market, sales, marketing, pricing, and customer success as the right hand to Leader.
- Gain exposure to Banyan’s acquisition process, including value-creation plan framing during diligence.
- Support integration planning and onboarding for newly acquired businesses, helping establish operating rhythms and priorities while respecting what already makes each business work.
- Help execute the value-creation plan once a deal closes, turning the diligence thesis into the specific operating bets a business needs to win in year one.
- Support your Operating Leader on critical initiatives, executive decision-making, and cross-company collaboration, frequently influencing outcomes without formal authority or direct reports.
- Build the judgment, breadth, and pattern recognition required for future general management by working different business problems across a portfolio of vertical software companies.
Requirements
- Recently graduated from a top MBA program. This cycle is not open to first-year MBA students.
- 2–5 years of pre-MBA experience in an operating role (product, business operations, portfolio operations, or value creation), management consulting, private equity, or investment banking, with a demonstrated record of owning measurable outcomes.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal judgment, with the ability to synthesize complex information and influence senior stakeholders without relying on formal authority.
- High learning agility and comfort with ambiguity. You get smart quickly in unfamiliar areas, prioritize what matters, and move from analysis to action.
- Low ego and high ownership. You are ambitious but humble, seek feedback, build trust quickly, and are motivated by the work of operating a business rather than by title.
- Experience in software, SaaS, or another recurring revenue business is advantageous.
- Familiarity with vertical software economics is an advantage.
- Experience leading a team is not required; this role initially relies on leadership through influence.
Skills
- AI expertise
- Operational discipline
- Go-to-market strategy
- Customer onboarding
- Software M&A
- Value creation
- Operating work
- Cross-functional project leadership
- Integration planning
- Executive decision-making
- Communication
- Interpersonal judgment
- Synthesizing complex information
- Influencing stakeholders
- Learning agility
- Prioritization
- Analysis
- Action orientation
- Leadership through influence
Location
- North and South America
- Europe
- APAC
Work Type
- Full-time
- Permanent
Experience Level
- 2-5 years pre-MBA experience
- Executive Leadership Program (2 years)
Education Level
- MBA from a top program
Benefits
- Cohort of high-calibre peers
- Direct apprenticeship with senior operators
- External executive coaching in Year 2
- Mentorship from Operating Leaders with decades of software experience
- Fastest track to running a business
- Real operating reps, not case reps
- Leadership-level stretch assignments
About the Company
- Banyan Software is the best permanent home for software businesses that serve specialized industries, their employees, and their customers.
- With a buy-grow-and-hold-for-life approach and a permanent capital base, Banyan acquires and grows companies worldwide, honoring founder legacies and helping portfolio companies modernize through shared AI expertise and operational discipline.
- Founded in 2016, Banyan operates more than 120 portfolio companies across North and South America, Europe, and APAC, and has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list for six consecutive years.
- The Banyan Software Foundation, endowed with $100 million in Banyan stock, leverages technology to build a greener and more equitable world.
Equal Opportunity
- Banyan affirms that inequality is detrimental to our Global Teams, associates, our Operating Companies, and the communities we serve. As a collective, our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions. Together, we unite for equality and equity.
- Banyan is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic, including race, color, genetic information, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lawful alien status, ancestry, age, marital status, or protected veteran status and will not discriminate against anyone on the basis of a disability.
- We support an inclusive workplace where associates excel based on personal merit, qualifications, experience, ability, and job performance.