Start Your Adventure at Via Logic

Type: Contract/1099
Rate: $150-200/hour
Hours: Initial engagement capped at 10 hours per month, with the possibility of additional approved hours as business needs evolve
Experience Required: 10+ years of operations leadership experience
Location: Remote, U.S.-based. Must be available for meetings and collaboration during Eastern Time business hours.

Your Route Into Ops

At Via Logic, we believe strong operations make meaningful work possible. As a growing small business supporting federal and commercial clients, our operating needs span people, talent, finance coordination, contracts, compliance, security, delivery operations, and internal systems. We’re looking for a Fractional Chief Operating Officer/Operations Advisor to provide executive-level strategy, structure, and task-based operational support to Via Logic’s principal and founders. This is a limited-hours advisory and consulting engagement, not a full-time COO role or day-to-day ownership position. The initial engagement is capped at 10 hours per month, with the possibility of additional approved hours as business needs evolve. The ideal consultant brings small-business operations leadership experience, strong GovCon familiarity, and the ability to advise founders while also supporting specific operational tasks as assigned and agreed upon.

Your Mission

In this role, you may support strategy, structure, and execution across several operating areas, including:

Business Ops

• Support the founders in organizing, prioritizing, and sequencing operational workstreams.
• Help turn open operational priorities into clear next steps, owners, decision points, and follow-up actions.
• Advise on operating rhythms, internal workflows, accountability structures, and cross-functional coordination.
• Support review of delivery operations workflows, timekeeping processes, weekly validation practices, approval workflows, and audit-trail requirements.
• Provide advisory support related to facility clearance operations, FSO coordination, DCSA follow-up, recurring security compliance tasks, personnel updates, system-access coordination, and annual compliance items.
• Assist with specific operational projects as assigned and agreed upon.

People & Talent

• Advise on hiring structure, recruiting operations, role definition, and internal support needs.
• Support planning around people-related programs such as performance reviews, compensation cycles, benefits decisions, team lead structures, growth frameworks, and internship programs.
• Help clarify what should sit with People/Talent, leadership, internal operations support, or outside advisors.
• Provide task-based support for people and talent initiatives as assigned and agreed upon.

Expanse

• Help define, track, and organize expense-related, vendor-related, and partnership operational items.
• Advise on process improvements for expense packages, vendor coordination, consultant support, partnership follow-up, and operational follow-through.
• Support the creation of simple trackers, workflows, or ownership paths for open expense and partnership items.

Finance

• Provide operational guidance related to finance workflows, bookkeeping cadence, reporting structure, and cross-system coordination.
• Support task-based review of finance and accounting items such as QuickBooks Online structure, Gusto coordination, chart of accounts cleanup, project-level reporting, invoice tracking, expense processes, and year-end or forward-year planning.
• Help clarify what should sit with internal operations, bookkeeping support, accounting/tax advisors, or leadership.
• Coordinate with internal team members and external finance/accounting partners as needed and within approved scope.

Contracts

• Advise on operational tracking for NDAs, subcontracts, contract actions, GSA MAS updates, SAM.gov items, and related compliance activities.
• Help structure registers, trackers, and accountability paths for open contract and compliance items.
• Provide guidance on how GovCon operational requirements should be documented, assigned, monitored, and escalated.
• Support task-based contract or compliance coordination as assigned and agreed upon.

Because this is a limited-hours fractional engagement, priorities will be reviewed and sequenced with Via Logic’s principal and founders.

What Helps Explorers Succeed Here

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of operations leadership experience, such as COO, VP of Operations, Head of Operations, Director of Operations, or equivalent consulting experience.
• Prior experience advising founders, principals, or executive teams in a small-business or growth-stage environment.
• Strong ability to translate broad operational needs into clear priorities, owners, next steps, and execution plans.
• Experience working across multiple business functions, such as People/Talent, finance, contracts, compliance, operations, internal systems, and vendor coordination.
• Strong written communication, documentation, and process-creation skills.
• Ability to operate independently in a fractional consulting capacity with limited hours.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving environment where priorities may shift and structure is still being built.

Strongly Preferred Skills & Experience

• Small-business government contracting experience.
• Familiarity with GSA MAS administration, SAM.gov, federal contract compliance, subcontract/NDA tracking, and related GovCon operations.
• Familiarity with DCSA/NISPOM facility clearance operations, FSO coordination, and personnel security workflows.
• Experience supporting audit-ready financials, compliant timekeeping, project-level financial reporting, or GovCon finance operations.
• Hands-on familiarity with tools such as QuickBooks Online, Gusto, Bitwarden, Middesk, CorpNet, Slack, Google Workspace, and project/task tracking systems.
• Prior fractional COO, operations consultant, or advisory engagement experience.
• FSO, Assistant FSO, or personnel security experience.

Why Explorers Stay

• Collaborative and supportive team culture focused on growth and continuous learning.
• Opportunities to support meaningful business operations and help strengthen a growing small business.
• Mission-driven work supporting federal and commercial programs with real-world impact.

How We Work

• Team members are expected to actively engage through Slack, Teams, email, Monday.com, and other collaboration tools during standard business hours.
• Availability for meetings and collaboration between 9AM–5PM EST is expected.