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Are You a Growth Pro in the Making?

At Growth Operators, we’re building something special – a team of elite professionals who love what they do and who thrive on making an impact. Our team of finance, accounting, and HR professionals partner with growing companies to provide hands-on expertise that drives results. If you’re looking for a dynamic, collaborative environment where your work truly makes a difference, Growth Operators might be the perfect place for you.

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Your Future Is Calling

Our Growth Pros are employees who never stop learning and never stop teaching. We have a suite of proprietary tools and an ever-increasing library of best practices that makes all of us better at what we do, supported by competitive compensation, training, development, and the opportunity to advance your career within a flexible, rapidly growing work environment.

Here’s a little bit of what you can expect when joining our talented team:

W2 Employment Model

Enjoy the stability of steady pay, benefits, and performance-based bonuses while working on diverse and stimulating projects in finance, accounting, and HR.

Challenging & Meaningful Work

Partner with private equity-backed and privately held middle market to enterprise companies to help them navigate their most complex challenges.

Flexibility & Autonomy

Work in a high-trust environment where you can take ownership of your projects while receiving support from an experienced, dedicated team.

A Culture of Continuous Learning

We believe in "Always Learning, Always Teaching," ensuring every team member is growing professionally while helping our clients' businesses do the same.

Comprehensive Benefits

Health insurance, 401(k) match, paid time off, professional development opportunities, and more.

Team Connection

Regular social events, team meetups, and an engaging work environment where people genuinely enjoy working together.

What our Growth Pros are saying

Growth Operators delivers expert finance and HR guidance to emerging companies, helping to make good companies great. What better way to spend your career than to work with a highly-skilled team and work with highly successful clients to be a part of maximizing value in businesses!

– Bob Adams, Partner

Working at Growth Operators gives me the opportunity to learn a wide breadth of skills and experience multiple industries that I just would not get working for another company. I get to collaborate with other highly talented Growth Pros and still have flexibility in my workday. I also am allowed the freedom to be innovative with the support of Growth Operators leaders. It’s a win win win win!

– Tiffany Hovland, Vice President

I love the collaboration and community at Growth Operators. I am amazed at how much knowledge and talent our team has – and I get to learn from them every day!

– Heidi DeSautel, Managing Partner - Delivery

Growth Operators has given me the opportunity to put my years of HR and leadership experience to use to provide our clients with the best talent around through a smart, team-based model. I love how we work collaboratively to ensure our clients are left in a much better place when we wrap up our engagements than when we arrived.

– Kim Schablin, Managing Director

I love learning new businesses and how they work. This job allows me to use critical thinking to adapt and provide the most value to the client while continuing to build out my accounting and operations skill set.

– Mike Osterberg, Director

At Growth Operators, we focus on deeply understanding our clients and their business needs by fostering trust-based, collaborative relationships. As Growth Professionals, we are dedicated to leveraging both our individual and collective expertise to deliver exceptional value in addressing any challenge, project, or initiative.

– Natalie Bonner, HR Associate

What do Growth Pros do?

A Day in the Life

We work with clients who aren’t just looking for ideas. They’re looking for results. Our people are experts who approach our work with our sleeves rolled up, ready to dig deep, solve problems, and empower growth for our clients from day one.

As a Growth Pro, your role might include:

Serving as an interim or fractional finance, accounting, or HR leader for growing companies.
Partnering with executive teams to provide strategic guidance and hands-on execution.
Leading process improvements, financial reporting, budgeting, and HR strategy.
Supporting companies through mergers, acquisitions, and periods of rapid growth.
Leveraging your expertise to drive real results, not just recommendations.

Are You the Right Fit?

If this sounds like it’s in your wheelhouse, then we may be getting somewhere. Ultimately, we are interested in hiring experienced finance, accounting, and HR professionals who are passionate about making a difference.

Our ideal team members:

Thrive in a fast-paced, client-facing environment and enjoy working on a variety of projects.
Have experience with multiple industries, M&A transactions, or private equity-backed businesses.
Are problem-solvers who love tackling complex challenges with a hands-on approach.
Value teamwork, continuous learning, and making a real impact.

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A Note from Our Founder

I founded Growth Operators with one goal in mind: to bring top-quality HR and finance consulting and interim leadership to the middle market.

Having strong back-office business partners transforms good companies into great companies. Great companies obsess over financial performance and talent. A great finance team ensures everyone in your organization has a pulse on what drives business performance and why. A great human resources team empowers you to recruit and retain the talent your business needs and gives you a pipeline of future leaders to optimize growth and value creation. You can’t grow a business without money and talent; Growth Operators gives your business the freedom to grow with confidence.

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Our Guiding Principles

Collaboration

We work together to get things done. That's how great results happen.

Always Learning, Always Teaching

Knowledge is always a work-in-process. We all have different experience to share from our professional and personal lives. Sharing them makes all of us smarter than any of us.

Roll Up Your Sleeves

Ideas don't create value. Execution does. We roll up our sleeves and turn great ideas into great results.

Embrace the Suck

Business transformation is hard work. And some problems just plain suck. We believe in the old saying, ’It ain’t gonna fix itself.’ We’re problem solvers who love a challenge. We embrace the suck and dig right in.

What is our secret sauce?

Our people we call Growth Pros.

At Growth Operators, the Founders Award is the highest honor we give to our remarkable team members. It’s awarded annually to those who embody and exemplify our core values every single day—those who Collaborate, are Always Learning and Teaching, Roll Up Their Sleeves, and Embrace the Suck. In short, they CARE.

2022 Tiffany Hovland

2023 Andrea Ranstrom

2023 Nick Jacoby

2024 Layci Skog

2024 Nichole Monaghan

2025 Beth Aarness

2025 Tony Marcucci

2025 Amy Spencer

We Provide the Tools, Skills, and A Clear Path to Allow You to Tap into Your Superpowers

INDIGO Training Platform

Launched in 2022, the INDIGO training platform supports career growth and development for our 65+ employees. It offers three growth paths: Growth Spurts, Grow U, and Rings.

Growth Spurts

Welcome to the team! Get up to speed with guided training on our unique processes and proprietary tools.

Grow U

Always learning. Always teaching. It’s a core value that we deliver on. Our customized classes for Growth Pros provide invaluable lessons and skills that help you grow both personally and professionally.

Rings

We’ve outlined the tools, processes, and clear advancement path to help Growth Pros master their roles and help clients thrive.

A Great Place to Work & Grow

GOSocial & GOGather Events

Belonging at Growth Operators

We embrace and value experiences that can create an addictive culture of collaboration and belonging. Our monthly GoSocial events and twice-a-year GoGather events bring the team together in the form of immersive experiences, building teams as well as individuals.

Awards & Accolades

We're fortunate enough to have our hard work recognized by the following organizations.

Awarded one of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024

Recognized as a Top 200 Workplace by the Star Tribune 2024

Careers FAQs

What types of clients will I be working with?

Our clients include private equity-backed and privately held lower-middle market companies across a variety of industries. Many are experiencing rapid growth, ownership transitions, or other transformative changes in need of hands-on expertise and support. This means you’ll have the opportunity to work with leadership teams to help navigate complex financial, operational, and HR challenges, contributing directly to their business success.

Is this a full-time role or contract work?

Will I work remotely or on-site?

How is Growth Operators different from a traditional accounting or consulting firm?

How do I apply?