We’re hiring a Strategy & Growth Lead who combines strategic thinking, operational execution, and experimentation.
This is a hybrid role across:
1. Growth Strategy & New Channels
You’ll design, run, and scale new growth experiments. Examples:
- Building and managing partnerships with VCs, founder communities, accelerators, HR networks.
- Developing joint ventures or co-selling motions with EOR providers and adjacent HR tech platforms.
- Testing and scaling new acquisition channels for companies and recruiter solopreneurs.
- Unlocking outbound, ecosystem, and referral growth at scale.
2. Partnerships & Ecosystem Development
Workfully sits at the center of the European People & Talent ecosystem.
Your job will be to expand it:
- Identify, evaluate, sign, and manage strategic partnerships.
- Build long-term relationships with venture funds, consultancy networks, EORs, HR tech providers, and recruiting collectives.
- Create repeatable partnership playbooks and dashboards.
3. M&A; Exploration & Special Deals
We are beginning to explore micro M&A; opportunities:
- Sourcing small recruitment agencies or boutique operations.
- Running early evaluation: analysis, rationale, risks, deal structure, and integration path.
- Supporting negotiation and execution alongside the CEO.
No banking background required—just strong business judgment and comfort running structured evaluations.
4. Special Projects & Chief-of-Staff Support
You’ll act as an extension of the CEO on strategic priorities.
Examples include:
- Designing new business lines or pricing strategies.
- Preparing narrative, strategy, and insights for board/investor conversations.
- Running strategic internal projects (e.G., recruiter acquisition strategy, AI integration roadmap, country expansion).
- Coordinating cross-functional initiatives across Product, Ops, Sales, and Community.
This is a high-trust role with broad autonomy.
What We’re Looking For
Must-have Experience
You should bring at least one of the following:
- Early-stage startup experience (0 → 1 or 1 → 10 phase).
- VC experience (scouting, portfolio support, platform, value creation).
- Management consulting/strategy experience (growth strategy, GTM, ops, projects).
- Bonus: experience with partnerships, BD, ecosystems or community-led growth.
Competencies & Behaviors
- Strategic thinker with strong analytical judgment.
- High ownership, autonomous operator, hands-on executioner.
- Excellent communicator: can simplify complexity and get people aligned.
- Fast learner;
thrives in ambiguous, high-velocity environments.
- Comfortable switching between high-level strategy and ground-level execution.
- Relationship builder;
strong stakeholder management.
What Success Looks Like in the First 12 Months
- Launch and prove 2–3 new scalable growth channels.
- Build a structured partnership pipeline and close high-impact collaborations.
- Deliver clear evaluations on micro M&A; opportunities.
- Drive 2–3 strategic projects end-to-end (pricing, new GTM motion, expansion, etc.).
- Become the CEO’s strategic right hand—trusted on both execution and judgment.
Why Workfully
- Work on one of the most ambitious transformations in the recruiting industry.
- High impact: you will directly influence Workfully’s trajectory.
- Access to an ecosystem of People & Talent leaders across Europe.
- Flat, fast, and founder-led organization.
- Competitive salary + meaningful equity package.
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