Chief Executive Officer

Industrious•New York, NY

1d•$400,000 - $425,000•Remote

About The Position

Industrious is seeking a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to lead the company through its next phase of growth. The CEO will report to Jamie Hodari, co-founder and leader of CBRE's Building Operations & Experience segment, and will have full Profit & Loss (P&L) responsibility for Industrious. This role requires balancing profitable growth and unit economics with leveraging CBRE's scale, all while maintaining Industrious's distinct, experience-led culture. The CEO will operate within a global public company while preserving the agility and warmth of a founder-led business, requiring a high degree of "altitude control" to navigate between strategy and detail, culture and economics, and integration and independence.

Requirements

Track record of building high-trust, low-ego environments that deliver results and create psychological safety without lowering standards.
Genuine financial fluency, with the ability to reason through unit-level profitability and capital-allocation trade-offs.
Experience scaling a service-led platform with both commercial rigor and product imagination.
Demonstrated boldness in reshaping business models.
Comfort working alongside a founder and within a large matrix organization.
Ability to influence without needing total autonomy.
Commercial credibility at the highest level.
Low ego, high impact: confidence with humility, decisiveness without performance.
Curiosity and the ability to admit when you don't know, while quickly building a path forward.

Nice To Haves

Direct sector experience is welcome but not essential.

Responsibilities

Set the long-term growth strategy for Industrious, including expansion pace, partnership structures, go-to-market integration with CBRE, and product evolution.
Manage full P&L performance, focusing on revenue growth, margin expansion, utilization, and disciplined capital-light scaling.
Develop the commercial architecture to leverage CBRE's enterprise and landlord relationships into scaled, repeatable programs that align incentives.
Serve as the chief steward of Industrious's culture, ensuring its warmth, intellectual rigor, humility, and high standards are maintained and scaled without dilution.
Build and develop the leadership team to operate at greater scale while retaining entrepreneurial intensity.
Lead Industrious through its next chapter, reporting to Jamie Hodari and holding full P&L responsibility.
Set the strategic direction of Industrious within the wider CBRE portfolio.
Accelerate profitable growth and strengthen unit economics.
Turn CBRE's scale into real commercial leverage.
Keep Industrious culturally distinct and experience-led.
Operate inside a global public company while protecting the velocity and warmth of a business that still feels founder-built.
Manage the team of around a thousand employees, upholding the promise of good work conditions without compromising the love for the work itself.
Engage enterprise clients and landlord partners, articulate a differentiated vision, and turn relationships into outcomes.