COO search firm in Bengaluru.
Retained Chief Operating Officer search in Bengaluru and across Bengaluru · Hyderabad · Chennai. COO is the most ambiguously-defined CXO role. We invest the first two weeks of a COO search shaping the brief — making sure the company actually needs a COO, and not a CTO, CRO or stronger CEO.
How we read a COO.
Every COO candidate we shortlist for a Bengaluru mandate is evaluated against five lenses, refined over two decades of COO placements across India and the GCC:
- 01Operating-cadence design and execution
- 02Cross-functional alignment under stress
- 03Cost-to-serve and unit-economics fluency
- 04Geographic and vertical scale lived through
- 05CEO-partnership maturity
₹3–8 Cr fixed + variable + ESOP / LTI
Typical COO band for Bengaluru-based mandates, fixed plus variable plus long-term equity / ESOP. Adjust upward for listed-company and PE-backed roles.
12–16 weeks
Kick-off to signed offer. Add 4–6 weeks for confidential CXO replacements and cross-border briefs.
Retained
Single-firm retainer, milestone-billed at 25–33% of target compensation. 12-month replacement guarantee.
From the ground.
We have placed COOs at PE-backed roll-ups, listed industrials and growth-stage technology businesses — we know when the role is real and when it isn't.
Bengaluru is where our technology, product and AI leadership practice is centred. From this office we run CTO, Chief Product Officer, VP Engineering, Chief AI Officer and CISO mandates for unicorns, listed product companies, GCCs and growth-stage startups.
- COO mandates in Software & SaaS
- COO mandates in AI & Data Platforms
- COO mandates in GCCs & Capability Centres
- COO mandates in Cybersecurity
- COO mandates in Biotech & Healthtech
- COO mandates in E-commerce & Quick Commerce
Other Bengaluru search practices.
COO search across our offices.
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