Alongside our corporate partner, BCG Digital Ventures is launching a stealth startup focused on developing technology for fieldworkers. We are bringing together a cross-disciplinary team of product designers, engineers, business strategists, user-centred designers and technical sales specialists to build ground-breaking tech to address a growing market need.  The business is due to launch in early 2020, and will be based in London, UK with some international travel.

We are looking for an extraordinary CEO who is passionate about building businesses and teams to lead and own the end-to-end success of this disruptive start-up. Joining at an early stage in this new venture, you will take an active role in strategic decisions and the overall direction of the business

In this role you will:

• Set the vision for the company and define the overall strategy from launch to scale, including long-term goals to achieve consistent results and exponential growth
• Attract, retain & develop world-class talent, including making recruitment decisions of full leadership team, while cultivating a high-performing/ agile one-team culture
• Drive day-to-day operations
• Align resources to achieve key business priorities
• Proactively mitigate business, operational & governance risks
• Own the operational budget and manage burn rate while growing the business ahead of market disruptions
• Drive continuous improvement
• Manage competition and threats in the marketplace, with constant evaluation of financial structure, capital strategy & strategic priorities
• Provide expert guidance to all functional areas, including operations, sales & product
• Regularly report updates to Board of Directors and corporate stakeholders regarding progress on strategic priorities, and collaborate with Board of Directors to accelerate progress
• Serve as external spokesperson and public champion for the business
• Establish credibility throughout the customer and partner network by authentic engagement to galvanize the company to create & drive solutions to address core business challenges

You should have:

• P&L responsibilities at CEO level or head of significant BU
• Start-up leadership experience within fast-growing company
• Consistent track record of building successful products and high calibre teams from the ground up, ideally in current roles
• Experience leading Board of Directors and corporate partners to keep regular updates on business performance and progress
• Founder experience in utilities, energy or industrial sectors and/or tech-forward start-ups is a plus
• Ability to guide a company through different phases of growth
• Experience in enterprise sales companies is a plus