What You Will Be Doing:

• Strategic Leadership: Provide visionary leadership and develop a strategic roadmap to position the company as a pioneer in AI-driven coaching solutions in alignment and co-development with existing founding team’s purpose, vision, mission and values (e.g., empowering human capabilities with AI and coaching, respecting coaching techniques, values and ethics, putting user security and confidentiality first etc.)
• Product Development: Collaborate with the technical co-founder and the AI Fund team to enhance the solution, ensuring its fluency, quality, and efficacy through AI/ML advancements.
• Business Development: Identify and forge strategic partnerships with corporate clients wanting to develop their own coaching solutions, as well as coaching/learning & development platform providers such as learning management systems, digital assistants (chatbots, avatars etc.), and other relevant stakeholders to expand the adoption of the solution.
• Team Management: Build and lead a high-performing team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability.
• Market Positioning: Develop and execute marketing and branding strategies to establish the company as a leader in AI-driven coaching solutions.
• Financial Management: Drive revenue growth, manage budgets, and own the fundraising strategy
• Industry awareness: Stay up to date with the latest trends, research, and advancements in coaching science, AI technologies, and related fields.

What You Must Bring:

• Senior level business skills: Demonstrated successful experience as a founder, preferably as a CEO, with a proven track record of driving business growth/fundraising and managing high-performance teams. Ideally, have already integrated an existing early-stage company and transformed it into a stable and well-functioning business.
• Coaching industry knowledge: Familiarity with coaching practices and the latest developments in coaching science, including optimal questioning techniques, and creating a questioning culture.
• Strategic vision: Ability to develop and execute a strategic roadmap, identifying opportunities for innovation and market disruption.
• Partnership development: Proven ability to establish and nurture strategic partnerships with key stakeholders to drive business growth.
• Excellent communication skills: Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively engage with clients, investors, and the broader industry.
• Passion for innovation: Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for leveraging technology to transform industries and create positive impact.
• Great interpersonal skills. Ability to work with previous founders who are engaged in the organization, and to leverage them as resources as needed.
• Previous startup or other small/scrappy team experience.

Nice to Haves:

• Technology and AI expertise: Strong understanding of AI technologies, natural language processing, and machine learning, with the ability to effectively collaborate with technical teams.
• Advanced degree: Preferably holds an advanced degree in business, technology, psychology, or a related field.

Characteristics:

• Accountability: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions while doing so with the highest regard for integrity. 
• Leadership: able to influence others to follow you and lead the team to a brighter future.
• Grit. able to stick with projects and work hard through good and bad times. High pain tolerance and can perform well under stress or pressure.
• Scrappy: Takes initiative and proactively gets things done with low resources, but doing creative things, begging, borrowing, and whatever is needed in an ambiguous environment or situation.
• Ownership orientation: Demonstrated orientation of extreme ownership over all aspects of the company and extremely results-driven in nature.