Rosa Vega

Background

Rosa has spent more than 16 years leading operations, transformation and complex delivery — in startups, in scale-ups, and in a publicly listed technology company. The through-line is organisations at the point where the way they have been working stops fitting the size they have become.

She has held a Managing Director role with responsibility for the day-to-day running of a company: programme management, operations, P&L, HR, contracts, recruitment, payroll, compliance and governance. That range matters for the work she does now, because the operating problems founders bring rarely stay inside one function — a delivery problem turns out to be a hiring problem, which turns out to be a decision-rights problem.

Her specialism is designing operating models, governance structures and delivery frameworks that let a business grow without acquiring bureaucracy it will later have to remove. She has done that through a public-market transition, across a large milestone-based programme, and in companies small enough that the operating model was three people and a shared understanding.

What she works on at Groundwork

Rosa leads the operations side of the practice: fractional COO engagements, operating-model and cadence work, the post-raise quarter, restructuring, and funded programme delivery. She also does the founder and leadership coaching, which in practice is inseparable from the rest: an operating model only survives if the people running it have the confidence to hold it.

Operator track record

Before Groundwork, our partners built, scaled and protected technology organisations from inside them. Everything below was done in those roles, not as Groundwork client work — Groundwork is new, and we would rather show you verified operating history than dress it up as something it is not.