Chief Executive Officer Stealth Startup
Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
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Job Summary
Overview
Unusual Ventures is seeking a strategic visionary and execution-driven Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to lead a portfolio companys overall direction growth and success. The CEO will set the vision drive business performance build a strong leadership team and create long-term enterprise value through a category-defining B2B software company.
About Unusual Ventures:
We lead pre-seed to Series A investments in enterprise software startups across infrastructure developer tools security AI/ML and data with a focus on supporting founders as they journey from insight to product-market fit. Our expert team of operators works alongside our founders on everything from positioning to recruiting to enterprise sales leveraging decades of practical experience to improve your odds of success.
- Define and communicate the companys vision mission and long-term strategy
- Drive overall business growth ARR expansion and enterprise market penetration
- Build lead and mentor the executive leadership team (CTO VP Product VP Sales VP Engineering etc.)
- Make high-level strategic decisions on product roadmap GTM motion partnerships and capital allocation
- Represent the company to investors board members enterprise customers and external stakeholders
- Lead fundraising efforts investor relations and capital allocation across institutional rounds
- Own design partner and early enterprise customer relationships through the zero-to-one phase
- Establish company culture values and leadership principles
- Monitor performance metrics (ARR NRR CAC payback pipeline coverage) and ensure execution against goals
- Identify new opportunities for innovation and competitive advantage
- 15 years of leadership experience at enterprise software or B2B SaaS companies with prior executive-level roles
- Proven track record of scaling an enterprise software company or business unit (ideally from sub-$10M to $100M ARR)
- Strong business acumen across product technology and enterprise go-to-market functions
- Experience selling building or operating in complex enterprise sales environments (six- and seven-figure ACVs multi-stakeholder deal cycles)
- Experience with venture fundraising investor relations and board management at venture-backed companies
- Demonstrated ability to lead high-performing teams across engineering product and GTM
- Exceptional communication decision-making and leadership skills
- Prior experience as a CEO Founder or founding executive at a venture-backed enterprise software startup
- Operating experience at companies in Unusuals core investment areas: cloud infrastructure developer tools cybersecurity AI/ML platforms or data infrastructure
- Track record building category-defining products serving technical buyers (engineering security data platform teams)
- Experience navigating early-stage enterprise GTM (design partners founding AE hires first $1M-$10M ARR)
- MBA or advanced technical degree (CS engineering)
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About Company
Unusual Ventures is raising the bar for what founders should expect from their venture investors and enabling startups with the support they need to be successful.
