Case: Hiring a COO for Incision

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Incision

RocketPeople

Executive search

Intro

Finding the missing link within the leadership team at Incision.

Incision gives surgical professionals access to shared experiences, skills, and expertise by providing tools to get OR teams quicker and more thorough preparation for the Operating Room. Their “digital assistant” — a mobile app, helps members of the surgical team to learn visually, prepare, and align with one another on their daily work. Incision believe in sharing surgical skills and making high-quality surgical knowledge available to everyone. That's why they created Incision — to enable continuous surgical improvement that leads to better outcomes for everyone.

Intro

Finding the missing link within the leadership team at Incision.

weeks time-to-hire

candidates on interview

great addition to the team

weeks time-to-hire

candidates on interview

great addition to the team

weeks time-to-hire

candidates on interview

great addition to the team

The challenge

Hiring a COO with experience in B2B SaaS

The Incision team found themselves in an interesting phase. New product features are generating traction in the market, new territories are opening up fast and the team/market is expected to double in the next 12 months. The management team decided to look for an experienced Chief Operating Officer to cover 2 urgent needs; Create scalability & structure Setting up the teams for success. Create alignment between commercial and product teams, and make everyone work via shared targets and OKR’s. Setting up support teams to facilitate new product strategy With a strategy moving towards product-lead-growth, the need for a structured onboarding & support department is getting urgent. The COO will be leading the build up of this team. Together we started looking for a COO who has been in B2B SaaS environments, with similar challenges.

The challenge

Hiring a COO with experience in B2B SaaS

Our approach

An extensive onboarding process was the key to success. We conducted a general Audit to gather information about the company, role, and ideal candidate profile. As the Incision management team is relatively small, there were meetings with every individual as well to make sure all preferences and needs were covered and everyone had an equal say in the profile we would be looking for.

We set up a team with our most experienced c-level recruiters who were able to activate interesting candidates within a week, when the interview process started. In the end, it turned out that the ideal - and hired - candidate was the second candidate Incision spoke to in the first round interviews.

Our approach

“We could not have been more pleased with partnering with RocketX on finding our new COO. From the initial intake to shortlisting strong candidates and supporting us through the interview stages and offer process. Tim and Sjoerd’s professional, yet personal, style ensured an extremely positive experience and successful outcome.”

Annelize Klomp

Head of People and Organisation at Incision

Annelize Klomp

Head of People and Organisation at Incision

The results

Incision interviewed people from different backgrounds and seniority levels to get a good understanding on what the market had to offer. Also, this helped to eventually understand who would be the right candidate. A very efficient interview process, from both Incision - and RocketPeople helped to successfully fulfil the role within 5 weeks.

weeks time-to-hire

candidates on interview

great addition to the team

weeks time-to-hire

candidates on interview

great addition to the team

weeks time-to-hire

candidates on interview

great addition to the team