Chief Executive Officer

Industrious • New York, NY

10d • $1,200,000 - $1,500,000 • Remote

About The Position

Industrious is seeking a Chief Executive Officer to lead the company through its next phase of growth. This role involves full P&L responsibility and setting the strategic direction for Industrious, a premium flexible workplace platform. The CEO will be responsible for accelerating profitable growth, strengthening unit economics, leveraging CBRE's scale, and maintaining Industrious's distinct, experience-led culture. The position requires an understanding of the evolving landscape of flexible work and commercial real estate, the ability to allocate capital effectively, and to build new commercial and partnership models. The CEO will operate within a global public company while preserving the entrepreneurial spirit of the organization. Key responsibilities include serving as a representative to landlords, enterprise clients, and the real estate community, stewarding a culture of warmth, rigor, and high standards, and building a strong leadership team.

Requirements

• Experienced builder-operator who has scaled a brand and built the operating and economic engine to support it, without losing what made the business distinctive.
• Has run a business with full P&L accountability, making decisions under pressure and driving sustained growth and profitability.
• Real financial fluency, comfortable reasoning through unit economics, profitability, and capital allocation tradeoffs in real time, with clear, structured thinking and fast pattern recognition.
• Strong commercial and experience instinct, with taste in product, experience, and brand — a feel for what makes customers care and how to turn that into results.
• Credible with enterprise clients and landlord partners at the highest levels, able to build the relationships that turn into scaled commercial outcomes.
• Builds and develops high-performing leadership teams.
• A culture carrier who embodies and can scale Industrious's culture — low ego, high warmth, high standards, and genuine care for people — building trust, followership, and psychological safety while holding the bar on performance.
• Operates effectively alongside a founder-adjacent leadership team and within a broader scaled ecosystem, balancing independence with collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Set the multi-year strategic direction, covering market expansion, product evolution, and competitive positioning, along with annual and long-range goals.
• Identify macro shifts in flexible work, commercial real estate, and workplace experience that should reshape the roadmap, and act on them early.
• Make capital allocation calls — expansion pace, product investment, build-versus-buy — balancing growth spend against profitability.
• Shape new commercial and partnership models, and govern decisions on new locations, non-standard deal structures, and major partnership commitments.
• Hold full P&L ownership, including revenue growth, margin expansion, utilization, and disciplined capital-light scaling.
• Own operating budget development and resource allocation.
• Serve as primary spokesperson and brand ambassador for Industrious with media, industry events, and the broader commercial real estate community.
• Own the strategic landlord and enterprise relationships, using them to unlock new partnership models.
• Represent Industrious within CBRE's executive leadership.
• Translate CBRE's relationships, capital markets access, and integrated services into scaled, repeatable commercial programs for Industrious.
• Hold strategic alignment with CBRE BOE while preserving Industrious's brand and cultural identity.
• Steward a culture defined by warmth, intellectual rigor, humility, and high standards, setting the pace and the standard of excellence and modeling the behaviors that scale it without dilution.
• Build and develop a leadership team that can operate at greater scale while keeping its entrepreneurial intensity.

Benefits

• Heavily subsidized medical, dental, and vision plans to support you and your family.
• Flexible paid time off, to maintain balance.
• Paid parental leave to help you welcome a new child and focus on what matters most.
• Annual professional development grants so you can keep learning and growing.
• 401(k) retirement savings program to support long-term financial wellbeing.
• Wellness initiatives and additional employee support programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed