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Kristina Zhdan

@kristinazhdan

Strategic operational leader and founder partner driving scalable revenue and systems.

Portugal
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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior operational leadership role where I can partner with founders, scale teams and revenue, build data-driven systems, and implement AI-enabled workflows in a fast-growth, outcome-focused environment.

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

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

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.

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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.

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