I am Slava Rozner, the Stateside Operator.

Seven years, one company, the full arc.

In 2016, ALM Works, a foreign-founded software company and the maker of Structure for Jira, opened its worldwide headquarters in Boston. I was hired as its first US employee. There was no office, no team, and no local structure. My job was to create them.

I ran the US office and the customer-facing teams first: support, escalations, hiring, onboarding, and the daily operations of the location. In January 2019 I became COO and the CEO's second-in-command. From that seat I carried both strategy and day-to-day operations: budgeting and financial planning with the CEO and CFO, human resources and team development, technology operations, and the legal, compliance, and risk work of a growing international software company, including privacy and international trade sanctions compliance.

The results over those seven years: the US office grew from zero to 25 people. Global headcount grew from 35 to 100. Revenue grew tenfold. In December 2021 the company was acquired by Tempo Software, one of the largest companies in the Atlassian ecosystem, and I stayed as COO through the integration, until February 2023, handing over a stable company.

The Stateside Operating System is that experience, written down.

Every part of the method comes from work I actually did: the decision rights, the weekly operating rhythm, the dependency and risk tracking, the coordination of lawyers, accountants, and other licensed providers around a growing US operation, and the discipline of moving people and customer promises only when the structure can hold them.

I did not license this method from anyone, and I am not reselling someone else's framework. I built the system by doing the job. When you engage me, you get both: the system and its author.

Twenty years of operating work came first.

I did not start in the boardroom. I started as an entry-level support technician and worked up through installation engineering, pre-sales engineering, and business marketing during ten years at IMPAC Medical Systems, most of them under its Swedish parent Elekta, in regulated medical software. After that came enterprise customer success at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. I have also been a founder myself: I cofounded and ran a health-tech startup through its full cycle, from idea to prototype to beta customers, so I know the founder's side of this relationship from the inside.

Three forms of engagement, one kind of work.

Depending on your stage, I work as a project-based operator for a defined review and setup of your launch structure, as a fractional or interim US operating lead, or as a full-time founding US operator inside your company. The engagement can be structured as consulting or as direct employment, whichever fits your plans.

I am based in Newton, Massachusetts, in the Boston area, and I am available to travel or to relocate within the US as the engagement requires.

What I do not do.

I am not a law firm, accounting firm, immigration advisor, or investment advisor, and I do not give regulated professional advice. Legal advice and documents, tax and accounting determinations, immigration advice and filings, regulatory approvals, and securities matters stay with licensed professionals. My job is to prepare the right questions for them, connect their work, and keep it moving in the right order.

I do not guarantee sales, financing, approvals, or tax or legal outcomes. I work only with companies that can lawfully operate in the US.

How I keep your trust.

Everything on this site is factual and verifiable. I publish no testimonials or case studies, because I have not asked past colleagues to provide them, and I will not invent them. Decision limits, approval points, and escalation rules are written down at the start of every engagement. And I do not collect sensitive material I do not need: no passport numbers, bank details, immigration case files, or confidential contracts in assessments or working documents.