Chief Development Officer

Chief Development Officer About the Company: Industrious is the largest premium workplace-as-a-service provider and home to the highest-rated workplaces in the industry. Everything we do comes down to creating great days for teams of all sizes and stages, including our own. We believe that what makes a great day at work is the people on your team and the problems you get to solve together. We’re looking for people who love thinking outside the box and thrive in a truly collaborative setting. As teammates, we encourage new ideas and toast every win. We’re excited about having a meaningful impact on people’s workplace experience. Great days also start when everyone can be their authentic self at work. Diversity of backgrounds, thoughts, and ideas is critical to our success in delivering great workplace experiences, both for our members and for each other. Industrious is committed to creating an inclusive, respectful environment that embraces your individuality and quirkiness. You are valued for who YOU are. We celebrate our people as individuals who can accomplish great things when we work together as one team. We are proud to have been recognized as one of America’s 500 fastest-growing companies in 2020 by Inc. Magazine and one of Forbes’ Best Startup Employers. To learn more, visit www.industriousoffice.com/careers https://www.industriousoffice.com/careers. About the role: Industrious is at a once in a lifetime inflection point, transitioning from being a late stage growth startup to an independent business unit of the world’s largest real estate company, CBRE. This next phase is all about making the most of the platform we’re now a part of, including bringing our expertise in workplace experience to millions of people around the world, scaling our core coworking product, building new products, nurturing our #soindustrious team, and doing it all with sustainable economics. We’re looking for a leader to join our executive team who can help us navigate this next phase by leading us to a new gear in the growth of our physical footprint (in our language, “supply,”) as well as extending their arms across our whole company to help us operate at the next level. Success in this role looks like three things: - We build on our success to date and grow our physical footprint across all products types even faster, in great locations, and with strong economics, driving EBITDA above our targets - Our executive team and leadership team reach a new gear of team work, problem solving, and values-driven decision making because you’re in the room; and our company as a whole is operating more effectively and efficiently with your thinking and leadership in collaboration and process design - The teams you work most closely with love being on the Industrious team and feel set up to do their best work Your role will require a breadth of skills. A single week might involve: translating our 5-year forward looking plan into a sharp strategy, together with our supply leaders; pinpointing the biggest areas of friction in how we work, and designing the solutions to reduce that friction; digging through our financial underwriting model for new coworking locations and brainstorming with our team about how we can update it to reflect our growing product set; working with your teams to redesign the complex processes that bring our locations into the world; working with your peers to untangle a thorny demand/supply/product issue; co-hosting a review of our latest programming and interiors with our design team; being a thought partner to our Head of Legal on a 49/51 decision about risk; mentoring a leader on your team who’s ready to take the next step in their growth; leading a financial review of our last 100 locations to spot issues and opportunities for the future; or wearing a Taylor Swift costume while lip-sync battling with a Beyonce-obsessed teammate of yours. You’ll be successful in this role if you love to win and are energized by reaching ... (truncated, view full listing at source)