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The role
We're hiring a Chief Executive Officer to lead Industrious through its next chapter. Reporting to Jamie Hodari, our co-founder who now leads CBRE's Building Operations & Experience segment, you'll hold full P&L responsibility for Industrious and set its strategic direction going forwards.
It's a role that asks you to hold several things at once: accelerate profitable growth and strengthen unit economics, turn CBRE's scale into real commercial leverage, and keep Industrious culturally distinct and experience-led while you do it. It calls for someone who can read where flexible work and commercial real estate are heading, allocate capital against it, build new commercial and partnership models, and evolve the business rather than just optimize it incrementally.
It also means operating comfortably inside a global public company while protecting the entrepreneurial velocity and warmth of a founder-built organization. The CEO serves as a key representative of Industrious to landlords, enterprise clients, and the broader real estate community, stewards a culture of warmth, rigor, and high standards as the business scales, and builds the leadership team to carry it there.
What you'll own
Strategy & business model
- 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.
Financial performance
- Hold full P&L ownership, including revenue growth, margin expansion, utilization, and disciplined capital-light scaling.
- Own operating budget development and resource allocation.
External representation & partnerships
- 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.
CBRE integration
- 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.
Culture & talent
- 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.
Who we're looking for
- 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.
Compensation
The annual base compensation range for this role is $400K to $450K and total package is $1.2M to $1.5M (including bonus and long-term profit share program), with actual compensation based on experience, skills, and qualifications.
