Job Description
Job Description
Chief Executive Officer
Join a Mission-Driven Team Dedicated to Serving Seniors and Families
Empathetic – Client-Focused – Servant Leader – Growth Mindset – Quality-Oriented – Team Player
At Jarvis Law, we are seeking an experienced CEO to join our growing team. If you are passionate about helping seniors and families navigate estate planning and elder law with confidence and peace of mind, we want to hear from you.
Who We Are
Jarvis Law is a leading elder law and estate planning firm with offices in Dublin, Lancaster, and St. Clairsville, Ohio. This role will be based primarily out of our Dublin office, but will need to travel to and work out of all of our offices monthly.
Our mission is to provide unparalleled legal services that allow families to live securely, age with dignity, and protect what matters most. We achieve this by:
- Building trust – Serving as compassionate advisors who treat clients like family.
- Providing clarity – Guiding families through complex legal matters with empathy and respect.
- Delivering excellence – Creating personalized, comprehensive legal plans with proactive communication.
What We Want
First and foremost, our new CEO has to be passionate about our mission of helping families throughout Ohio and West Virginia implement straightforward, sound, elder law plans that work. We are looking for a savvy business leader who keeps a heart for our clients at the center of their leadership because they understand the ultimate human impact of the peace of mind that our work brings.
To achieve that human impact, our CEO’s role focuses on executing the 2026 business plan, with an eye toward collaboratively developing the 2027 business plan. Our new CEO will bring creativity, accountability, and strategy to the table to achieve revenue and profitability goals. Applicants must be skilled in using data and facts to drive action, with the ability to skillfully monitor and respond to leading and lagging indicators. As this candidate transitions fully into the role, we will look to our CEO to be an aggressive innovator who balances market insight with a passion for helping families protect who and what matters most. As the leader of the firm’s C-Suite, the CEO will leverage the efforts of both internal and fractional executives to meet operations, finance, marketing, and sales goals. This works to set and align Jarivs’ strategic plan throughout the entire team.
Internally, the people on our team are at the core of our work, so any CEO candidate must have a demonstrated record of building inclusive, empowered cultures where people feel excited about their role in realizing our mission, vision, and values. We love transformational, servant, and democratic leadership styles that deliver big results. Externally, our CEO will serve as the steward of our brand who protects and grows our reputation by growing our professional network and attention to our community.
About Jarvis Law Office
We are an estate and elder law firm helping families throughout Ohio and West Virginia, implementing straightforward, sound plans that work. Our elder law services avoid probate by incorporating estate and estate tax planning, Medicaid planning, asset protection, memory care planning, and special needs planning. Through our work, we help clients maximize independence, age with dignity, get the right care at the right time, create security for loved ones, and navigate healthcare and long-term decisions effectively. Every day, our team feels how important the work they do is to the well-being of the clients we serve.
Why Jarvis Law Office?
- You want to lead an organization that makes a huge impact on people’s lives.
- You are a skilled CEO who thrives when empowered - not micromanaged.
- You value having the assistance of a skilled legal C-Suite to drive your efforts.
- You appreciate a flexible work schedule within core, in-person work hours.
- You desire medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family.
- You are excited about generous vacation/PTO time.
- You want unparalleled coaching, mentoring, and CLE opportunities.
- You would love a firm that invests in your retirement with a matched 401K plan.
Duties & Responsibilities
OVERALL LEADERSHIP
- Collaborates with the entire C-Suite to ensure coordinated stewardship of business plan execution through leadership, department supervision, data analysis, resourcing, and communication.
- Advances the organization’s mission, vision, values, and brand effectively.
- Oversees the ongoing operations of the marketing, sales, financial, people, and production divisions in the company and coordinates with division leadership.
- Oversees and effectively uses all marketing, sales, people, and financial metrics to inform decisions and ensure financial sustainability.
- Participates in the development and implementation of the long-range strategic plan; monitors and reports on progress and recommends changes/updates.
- Demonstrates strategic innovation for the firm that seizes on strengths and market opportunities while mitigating weaknesses and protecting from threats.
- ‘Gets it done’ by being results-driven and shifting between strategic and tactical.
FINANCIAL LEADERSHIP
- Reviews the monthly financial results of all operations, comparing them with the company’s objectives and taking appropriate measures to correct unsatisfactory performance and results.
- Establishes and monitors budget performance and stabilizes financial tension.
- Ensures that the trust account is properly reconciled each month.
- Participates in effective tax planning strategies and ensures that taxes are filed timely each year.
MARKETING & SALES LEADERSHIP
- Actively fosters community partnerships and professional networks at the local, regional, and state levels to strengthen our brand and expand our reach.
- Works with the C-Suite to identify appropriate marketing messages that resonate with the ideal A+ client(s) and audience.
- Works with the C-Suite to build a marketing plan in accordance with the firm’s written business plan and to ensure the marketing plan is calendared and that appropriate financial considerations are appropriate and budgeted.
- Resource pre-engagement glide paths to ensure prospective new clients make an informed decision as to whether and how the firm can help them.
PEOPLE & OPERATIONAL LEADERSHIP
- Has detailed knowledge of the firm’s SOPs to promote certainty and accountability for operations and delivers maximum employee performance; ensures that SOPs are firmly and consistently in place and reviewed/updated regularly.
- With the COO and Managing Attorney, ensures the legal team produces exceptional work-product in an efficient, professional, and reliable manner.
- Promotes and fosters a firm culture and work atmosphere that develops, retains, and empowers ‘A-team members’.
- Ensures the company’s compliance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and standards (including the bar).
Anticipates and meets all facility and operational capacity needs to execute the written business plan, including adequate office space, technology, software, licenses, insurance, and other necessary resources.
Core Competencies
Mission-Focused
Committed to create real change in the lives of families we serve
Relationship-Oriented
Puts people before processes; builds strong relationships with and across team
Collaborative
Effectively leverages collaboration to drive best practices and engage team members
Results-Driven
Dedicated to, and accountable for, shared & measurable goals. Creates, resources, scales, and leverages strategies and innovations for maximum impact
Brand Steward
Grows and protects the reputation and results of the greater network
Growth Mindset
Confronts setbacks and challenges with a positive, curious attitude; learns & adapts
Visionary
Confronts the complex realities of the environment and simultaneously maintains faith in a different and better future, providing purpose, direction, and motivation
Strategic Thinker
Ensures the right people are in the right roles at the right times, fostering commitment, trust and collaboration that intentionally delivers targeted outcomes.
Network Oriented
Values the power of networks; able to build, maintain, and grow mutually-beneficial professional networks that yield demonstrable brand and business benefits
Qualifications
- Demonstrated, sustained record of accountability and success as a CEO, Executive Vice President, Vice President of Revenue Operations, Vice President of Marketing, Vice President of Sales, or Chief Growth Officer, for a fast-growing professional services firm.
- Bachelor’s degree in business or related fields; MBA preferred.
- Experience with mergers, acquisitions, or sale of a business is preferred.
- Responsibility for annual gross revenue of 25M per year or more required.
- Experience working with multi-location and remote teams.
Compensation & Benefits
We offer a competitive total rewards package designed to attract and retain top talent:
- Total Annual Compensation: $200,000, including a base salary and performance-based bonus opportunities.
- Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical coverage with access to voluntary supplemental benefits.
- Life Insurance: $50,000 in company-paid life insurance coverage.
- Paid Time Off: Generous PTO program plus additional Volunteering PTO to support community engagement.