Chief Operating Officer

### **About Loyal** Loyal is a clinical\-stage veterinary medicine company developing longevity drugs for dogs. Our mission is to help dogs live longer, healthier lives. We're pioneering a new category of veterinary prescription drugs that proactively and preventatively target the underlying drivers of aging, delaying the onset of disease and preserving quality of life as dogs age. We've already made significant progress in our mission to develop the first FDA\-approved drugs to extend canine lifespan: as of early 2026 we've completed two of three major FDA review sections for our lead program, LOY\-002, and are targeting submission of the third and final section later this year. Loyal is a well\-funded startup with teams of scientists, veterinarians, engineers, operators, and creatives. You'll help us continue on our path of earning FDA approval for the first lifespan extension medicine for any species, and change what's possible for the dogs we love. ### **About the role** Loyal is hiring a Chief Operating Officer. This is a hands\-on leadership role at a company that has closed a $100M Series C, is advancing three\+ pipeline programs, and is targeting commercial launch of its first product LOY\-002 in 2027\. You will own Finance, People, Engineering, Program Leadership, Commercial, Customer Service, and the internal operating system that runs the company. The right person has stood up operating systems in startups before, has the confidence and conviction to push back on a founder/CEO, and can credibly hold a commercial projections debate, a product review, and a supply chain negotiation session in the same week. ### **Your daily work will include** * Owning the operational execution of Loyal's first commercial launch in 2027 \- partnering with organizations including Commercial, CMC/Supply Chain (under the CTOO), Veterinary Medicine, and Creative to ensure a launch that performs commercially and earns a brand customers love. * Leading Finance, People, Program Leadership, Commercial, Customer Service, and both Commercial and Internal/Platform Engineering. You will directly manage the leaders running each function, and build/scale the organizations where the organization is not yet built out. * Scaling the company from \~70 to \~150 people with AI\-leveraged efficiency — headcount growth gated to commercial milestones, not arbitrary expansion. Deploying AI tooling across ops, finance, recruiting, and customer service so leverage scales with the team. * Iterating and owning the operating cadence the company runs on — goals system, weekly and monthly business reviews, and the board prep cadence. * Owning the seam between commercial demand and technical supply — running the S\&OP cadence with the CTOO so the CEO is not the integrator on day\-to\-day operational decisions. * Leading product distribution platform buildout for a very complicated and regulated flow (prescription drug distribution), in collaboration with our eng