Chief Executive Officer

Role Overview

• Set the multi-year strategic direction, covering market expansion, product evolution, and competitive positioning, along with annual and long-range goals.
• Identify the macro shifts in flexible work, commercial real estate, and workplace experience that should reshape the roadmap, and act on them early.
• Make the 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.

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.

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.