Kristina Zhdan
@kristinazhdan
Strategic operational leader and founder partner driving scalable revenue and systems.
What I'm looking for
I am a strategic operational leader and 0-to-1 partner to founders who translates vision into cross-functional execution, builds revenue-generating business units, and architects real-time data ecosystems. As an early hire promoted to COO, I drove 10x organizational scale and launched services that became the majority of company revenue.
I deliver measurable operational impact by designing rapid hiring processes, implementing AI-enhanced sourcing workflows, and building single sources of truth with PowerBI and Airtable to enable daily data-driven decisions. I partner closely with CEOs to own high-priority initiatives, vendor relationships, and strategic rebrands for new markets.
Experience
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Chief Operating Officer
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Jan 2021 - Present (5 years 2 months)
Executive partner to the CEO driving global operations for 500+ startup clients; launched a Direct Hire service that scaled to 60% of company revenue and built a PowerBI/Airtable single source of truth enabling daily data-driven decisions.
People Operations Manager
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Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 (1 year)
Engineered operational systems for hyper-growth, designing a 10-day hiring process that produced 500+ placements and created onboarding/L&D programs that reduced early attrition threefold.
Business Assistant
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Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year)
First hire who partnered with the founder to establish US legal and financial infrastructure and validated GTM through delivery for the first 20 clients.
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