Who We Are
The Boutique COO works with business owners and founders who are looking to expand their network of expertise and grow their businesses.
We match intentionally and filter both clients and professionals, making sure they are serious, reliable and collaborative. Our network members aren’t competing with dozens of others for the same clients.
Who Our Clients Are Looking For
Experts in their field: You have a demonstrated history of success in operations, administrative support, and or executive assistant roles. You have your own clients or past freelance engagements.
Confident Communicators: You have strong written and verbal skills and the ability to adapt your communication style to a variety of client priorities and personalities.
Self-Starters: You are comfortable with jumping into open-ended problems as a problem solver. You can confidently assess the best courses of action, recommend clear paths to solution, and implement solutions with little to no oversight.
Skilled Project Managers: You seamlessly adapt to changes, stay on top of deadlines, and are able to skillfully manage multiple priorities.
Tech-Savvy Doers: You are comfortable with a variety of web-based applications and platforms commonly used in day-to-day business operations, including using AI tools thoughtfully. You are confident jumping into new systems and learning quickly and independently.
What Work with Our Clients Looks Like
- Managing and executing projects on behalf of clients
- Excelling at time management and meeting deadlines
- Fluidly providing a variety of virtual assistant services such as scheduling, emailing, lead conversion, research, data entry, and more
- Adjusting seamlessly to clients’ changing priorities, needs and deadlines using their business values and processes as a guiding principle
- Connecting with many different personality types and communication styles
What to Expect
- A roster of 2-5 ongoing clients - you get to choose which clients you take on
- A flexible schedule. Our clients are mostly looking for weekday availability with most client-expected project turnaround times being within 1-2 days
- 100% remote work with limited opportunities for onsite work
Requirements
- U.S.-Based
- High School Diploma or Equivalent
- Computer
- Strong & Consistent Internet Connection
Benefits
Why Join Our Network?
- Serious clients ready to start work
- Clients are vetted for reasonable expectations, adequate budget, respectful behavior
- Professional peer network
- Opportunities to grow your client base
- We handle sales, billing, & collections. You focus on delivering high-quality services to clients.
- We handle any escalations or incidents so you can focus on the work
Hourly rate starts at $22/hr with potential for increase over time.
The Boutique COO is committed to social justice, including LGBTQ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights, and provides services for individuals from a diverse array of races, ethnicities, national origins, sexual orientations, ages, religions, genders, educations, abilities and other identities. We do not tolerate or support discriminatory speech, hate speech, comments or actions against others based on their sex, gender, age, ethnicity, race, socio-economic status, disability, or other labels, or any physical, mental, or emotional abuse.
Skills Required
- U.S.-based
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Own computer
- Strong and consistent internet connection
- Demonstrated success in operations, administrative support, or executive assistant roles
- Own clients or prior freelance engagements
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to adapt communication style to different client priorities and personalities
- Ability to independently solve open-ended problems and implement solutions with minimal oversight
- Project management, time management, deadline management, and multitasking skills
- Comfort with web-based applications, business platforms, and AI tools
- Ability to learn new systems quickly and independently
- Weekday availability
What We Do
The Boutique COO provides strategic and tactical operational support to entrepreneurs and small business owners. Their services include business advisory, marketing strategy, administrative tasks, bookkeeping, and project management. Founded in 2013, the company aims to free up time for business owners by handling essential operational tasks, allowing them to focus on growth and serving their clients effectively.
