Operations is one of the broadest function titles in the professional job market, spanning everything from logistics coordination to company-wide process infrastructure. For senior operations professionals with 10 or more years of experience, that breadth is both the opportunity and the challenge: the market for operations leadership at the VP and COO level is large and consistently available remotely, but the filtering logic is unforgiving to generalist positioning. Companies hiring senior operations leaders are making a specific kind of bet, that this person can identify where the business is losing efficiency, build the systems to fix it, and manage the organizational change required to make those systems stick. Professionals who frame their experience in those terms are operating in a different market from those who describe themselves as experienced in operations management.