Chief Executive Officer, Industrious
$400-450k
Total package is $1.2M to $1.5M (including bonus and long-term profit share program)
Senior and Expert level
New York
Coworking & private office space
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Coworking & private office space
1001+ employees
PropertyB2BProductivityOffice
Be an early applicant
$400-450k
Total package is $1.2M to $1.5M (including bonus and long-term profit share program)
Senior and Expert level
New York
1001+ employees
PropertyB2BProductivityOffice
Company mission
To meet people where they are to deliver a better work experience.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- I’m hiring a CEO for Industrious. The job posting below will describe the role the way these things usually go, and you should definitely read it, but the truest description of this job isn't a list of responsibilities, it's a list of people. I thought you should meet a few of them before you apply
- Jazzman
- You will be responsible for a gentleman in our East Austin location who is genuinely upset that we played the 1998 CD remaster of Coltrane’s Giant Steps instead of the 1960 Atlantic mono pressing, and who is right, and who will know whether you fixed it
- Veterans of the thermostat war
- You will be responsible for the woman on the fourth floor in Chicago’s West Loop who has been running a years-long campaign about the thermostat, and for the man two desks over who leads the counterinsurgency, and you should know going in that they both renew every year, that we love them, and that the thermostat is, as far as anyone can determine, fine
- The book (wine?) lovers
- You will be responsible for a book club that has met fourteen times, talks constantly about book club, and I’m pretty sure made t-shirts. They recently celebrated finishing their second book
- The finance drama hounds
- You will also be responsible for a small number of disappointed financial analysts. Industrious pioneered the management-agreement model, meaning we partner with landlords and share the economics rather than signing fifteen-year leases and hoping for the best.
- Every so often an analyst calls looking for drama, some white-knuckle lease exposure he can put in a short report, and hangs up bored. Part of your job is keeping him bored
- Your teammates
- You will be responsible for around a thousand employees, many of whom came to us from hotels and restaurants, and who will tell you, if you ask, that they got into hospitality because they love taking care of people and very nearly got out of it because of everything that came with it: the schedules posted Thursday night for a week that starts Friday, the closing shift followed by the opening shift, the guests who never learned where their hands belonged
- They never stopped loving the work
- But they did stop loving the conditions, and they came to Industrious because we promised them the first without the second, and that promise transfers to you with the title
- Your teammates’ friends, who are likely also your teammates
- You will be responsible for at least one employee whose entire bridal party works here, which sounds like something in a recruiting brochure, but all I can say is the dress fittings are reportedly going well
- There is a version of this company where that stops happening, and the most important thing on your desk every morning is making sure it never does
- The striver
- You will be responsible for the founder who toured three times before signing a two-person office, the first physical proof that her company existed. The day her team outgrows it and takes the suite down the hall will feel, to both of you, like a small graduation
- 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
- 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
Our take
Industrious was founded in 2012 when its creators noticed that people often work d better in hotel lobbies and coffee shops than in traditional offices. This inspired the company to develop flexible workspaces that blend the casual environment of public spaces with the resources, security, and professionalism of an office setting.
Shared flexible workspaces are nothing new, but Industrious has successfully differentiated itself from larger competitors like WeWork by focusing on management contracts with landlords rather than leasing properties. The company has seen its revenue triple in recent years and has even taken over WeWork's former headquarters in Manhattan.
As demand for smaller, flexible office spaces grows, Industrious is thriving. With partnerships like CBRE and its expansion into key markets, the company is ready to capitalize on the shifting trends in office space.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2022
$100m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Aug 2019
$80m
SERIES D
Total funding: $322m
Company benefits
- Healthcare - We care deeply about the physical and emotional well-being of our employees. That’s why we offer a range of plan options through United Healthcare, including a variety of employer-paid plans that provide coverage for employees and their families
- Flexible Vacation Time - At Industrious we have a flexible PTO policy. This encourages people to enjoy life outside of work, recharge and look after their mental and emotional health. Take the time you need to have a balanced and fulfilling personal life
- Paid Parental Leave - Families come in all shapes, sizes, and types. We welcome each new addition with generous paid leave so that you can bond with your new child
- Learning & Development Grant - We’re committed to your professional development. We’re proud to offer a yearly grant so that you can take a class or learn a new skill
- Employee Resource Groups - These groups support, promote, and celebrate team members united around shared characteristics or life experiences
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Jamie Hodari
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to Industrious, they co-founded and served as the CEO at Kepler, a rapidly growing experimental university that Scientific American called a "daring global experiment" to bring "top-tier instruction to the neediest parts of the planet."
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