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CEO Advisor | SMB Leadership Experience Required | $182K+ Earning Potential | Remote

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on advising small law firm owners to enhance their profitability and operational efficiency. You will leverage your CEO experience to address business challenges and implement solutions, directly impacting multiple small and midsized businesses.

Qualifications

  • Significant experience leading small to midsized businesses, ideally with annual revenues between $500K and $30M.
  • At least eight years of hands-on business leadership as the actual operating CEO with full P&L responsibility.
  • Personally led a business through meaningful revenue growth, ideally from approximately $500K to $10M+.
  • Comfortable working directly with business owners, challenging assumptions, and creating accountability.
  • Hands-on execution experience in implementing solutions rather than just recommending them.

Responsibilities

  • Drive growth and profitability by helping owners identify opportunities and improve financial performance.
  • Solve business problems by identifying operational challenges and implementing practical solutions.
  • Create accountability by challenging assumptions and helping owners follow through on their plans.
  • Build stronger businesses by developing systems and processes for sustainable growth.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Leadership Development
  • Communication
  • Coaching
  • Accountability

About the company

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How To MANAGE a Small Law Firm

  • Management Consulting
  • SME
  • 51–200
Happy lawyers make more money. And broke lawyers don’t do anyone any good…least of all their clients, their family or themselves. We are the leading, largest, biggest and best provider of outside Managing Partner, Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) services exclusively for the solo and small law firm (single-shareholder) market. Whether you’re just starting out, you’re earning seven figures, or you’re somewhere in between… if you run a solo law firm and you are serious about growing your firm, making more money, and having fun in the process, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve worked with thousands of solo lawyers just like you and we’ve identified the common patterns and the challenges that hold most of them back. And we’ve seen that these obstacles evolve as the firm grows. That’s why we’ve divided our program based on the four distinct stages of law firm growth - so that you’re surrounded with lawyers that are grappling with the same challenges you are, and so that you’re provided with the resources you need to overcome them. Visit our website for more details! In addition, we present a variety of workshops, seminars, and CLE opportunities designed to help solo lawyers create wildly profitable law firms. If you’ll let us to brag for a moment, we’re pretty damn good at this. Don’t take our word for it - visit our website and see what our clients have to say. But in all honestly… we can’t take all of the credit for the massive success of our clients. What really makes our program so effective is the caliber of the community we’ve put together. As a member, you’ll be surrounded by solo lawyers just like you - motivated, entrepreneurial, smart, and ambitious. And thanks to our strictly enforced “NO ASSHOLES” policy, there’s a good chance that you’ll actually like some of these people! Iron sharpens iron, and joining this inspiring community will be among the best career decisions you’ve ever made!

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CEO Advisor | SMB Leadership Experience Required | $182K+ Earning Potential | Remote

How To MANAGE a Small Law Firm (HTM)

You've built and grown businesses, made the tough decisions, and owned the results. Now put that experience to work helping other business owners do the same.

Compensation: $110,000 base salary + uncapped performance-based compensation, with the opportunity to earn $182,000+ annually.

Location: 100% remote. Candidates must reside in AZ, CO, FL, GA, ID, IL, LA, MD, MI, MO, NC, NE, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, VA, WA, WV. Due to state registration requirements, we can only employ candidates in these states.

The Opportunity

What if you could use your experience as a CEO to make a meaningful impact across multiple small and midsized businesses instead of running just one?

As a CEO Advisor, you'll work directly with small law firm owners, typically running businesses with $1M–$5M in annual revenue. You'll help them improve profitability, strengthen operations, solve business challenges, and grow.

We're looking for someone who has actually operated and scaled a small or midsized business as its CEO. You understand the realities of running a business without layers of management or unlimited resources. You've owned the P&L, made tough decisions, and been accountable for results.

This is a hands-on advisory role. You'll help owners identify what's holding them back, develop practical solutions, and follow through until results improve.

HTM provides client acquisition and business development support, so you can focus on advising clients rather than finding them.

What You'll Do

  • Drive growth and profitability: Help owners identify opportunities and improve pricing, margins, cash flow, and financial performance.
  • Solve business problems: Identify operational challenges and implement practical solutions.
  • Create accountability: Challenge assumptions, establish priorities, and help owners follow through on their plans.
  • Build stronger businesses: Develop the systems and processes needed for sustainable growth.

What You Must Bring

  • SMB operating experience: Significant experience leading small to midsized businesses, ideally with annual revenues between $500K and $30M.
  • Actual CEO experience: At least eight years of hands-on business leadership, including serving as the actual operating CEO with full P&L responsibility.
  • Proven growth: Personally, led a business through meaningful revenue growth, ideally from approximately $500K to $10M+.
  • Company-wide accountability: Responsible for overall financial and operational performance, not just a department or function.
  • Owner-facing leadership: Comfortable working directly with business owners, challenging assumptions, coaching through difficult decisions, and creating accountability.
  • Hands-on execution: You don't just recommend solutions. You help implement them.

Important: You do not need to have owned the company you scaled. However, you must have served as its actual operating CEO and personally led its growth. Consulting, coaching, advising, fractional executive, or department leadership experience does not substitute for this requirement.

Be prepared to identify the company you led, its annual revenue when you took over and when you left, your P&L responsibilities, and the decisions you personally made to drive growth. We are looking for actual company revenue, not pipeline, valuation, capital raised, or revenue you influenced as an advisor.

This Role Is Not for You If…

  • Your experience is primarily with large enterprises, and you haven't worked directly with small or midsized businesses.
  • You've never served as the actual operating CEO with full P&L responsibility.
  • Your experience is primarily consulting, coaching, advising, or fractional executive work.
  • You've managed a department or prefer strategy without hands-on execution.
  • You're looking for a side gig. This is a full-time commitment.

Compensation & Benefits

  • $110,000 guaranteed base salary.
  • Uncapped performance-based compensation, with the opportunity to earn $182,000+ annually.
  • Full-time W-2 employment.
  • 100% remote within the eligible states listed above.
  • Benefits package and unlimited PTO.

Why HTM?

How To MANAGE a Small Law Firm helps attorneys build stronger businesses behind their legal practices. As a CEO Advisor, you'll bring your real-world operating experience to owners who need help with profitability, cash flow, hiring, operations, and growth.

Ready to Make an Impact?

Apply with your resume and make your operating track record clear. Tell us which company you led, its annual revenue when you took over and when you left, and how you helped drive its growth.

We're looking for someone who has actually run a small or midsized business — and can help other business owners do the same.

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