CEO

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Lead HPN as it transitions from a Stand Together-incubated initiative to a fully independent organization.

• Develop and implement a comprehensive plan that encompasses strategy, revenue, talent, budget, operations, governance, and organizational capabilities.

• Transform HPN’s mission and evidence into a coherent strategy, operational framework, and sustainable business model.

• Generate revenue from corporate and philanthropic sources while testing scalable offerings and funding approaches.

• Identify challenges related to employer talent and create workstreams, partnerships, convenings, and learning initiatives.

• Cultivate trusted partnerships with CEOs, CHROs, philanthropists, and other senior leaders.

• Represent HPN in executive discussions, events, media interactions, and various other platforms.

• Recruit and lead a high-performing entrepreneurial team.

• Foster a culture centered on principled entrepreneurship, ownership, continuous learning, and value creation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive executive leadership experience with a proven track record of establishing a new organization, business, platform, initiative, or capability from the ground up.

• Proven ability to convert an ambitious concept into a targeted strategy, sustainable business model, and effective execution.

• Experience in steering significant organizational changes, including launches, spinouts, growth, or institution-building.

• Demonstrated ability to generate and increase revenue through business development, fundraising, partnerships, membership, services, or other validated market models.

• Strong business acumen and the ability to grasp customer, member, and partner value, adapting strategy based on market insights.

• Experience in building trusted relationships with CEOs, senior corporate executives, philanthropic leaders, and complex external stakeholders.

• Proven track record of assembling and managing high-performing teams with defined roles and accountability in an entrepreneurial setting.

• Capability to navigate between strategic planning and execution.

• Excellent executive presence and communication skills.

• Intellectual curiosity, humility, and a readiness to challenge assumptions and pivot based on evidence.

• Experience in constructing or expanding a membership organization, industry association, executive network, professional community, marketplace, or other platforms focused on participant value.

• Experience in developing products, services, or experiences tailored for senior business leaders and refining them according to customer or member feedback.

• Experience collaborating across business and philanthropy with a commercial or entrepreneurial mindset.

• Familiarity with talent, workforce management, AI, skills-based hiring, internal mobility, or related employer challenges.

🏝️ Benefits

• Additional bonus earnings may constitute a significant portion of total compensation.

• Individualized compensation strategy that rewards the long-term value created for the organization.

• Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to treating employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, and respect.