Chief Development Officer

Industrious•New York, NY

12d•$300,000 - $330,000

About The Position

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 for big goals, easily simplify complex problems and processes into repeatable and scalable motions, are a sharp critical thinker with strong financial and business acumen who tends to see around the next corner, a leader people want to follow and who can lift up the people around you, can take ideas from thought to execution and support others to do so as well, and want to be a leader in a culture that’s full of kind, smart, low-ego, goofy people.

Requirements

You’ve led at scale - managed a distributed team across multiple geographies, balancing connection with operational excellence.
You’ve built through growth - helped take a company from mid-tier to big-tier, shaping the people engine that powered expansion.
You’ve operated within complexity - navigated a global business where influence happens one-to-many, not just one-to-one.
You’ve sat at the senior table - partnered with other executives to grind through global company strategy, especially in the late-stage growth push to double in size.