Chief Growth Officer, CERTD (early stage start-up)

About CERTD

Pervasive employee turnover of over 50% and a tight labor market have stressed organizations employing manual, skilled trade, and artisan workers. These companies need help finding talent, and as a second-order effect they have to hire employees with less skill and knowledge. This results in lower productivity, more workplace accidents, and strain on internal resources to onboard and train new employees.

CERTD has developed a new and innovative mobile-centric microlearning platform to train and upskill employees in skilled labor and service-oriented jobs to solve this pain. The platform features skills-based competency assessments and a personalized education engine to provide learning plans for new hires and existing employees to ensure job readiness.

CERTD is backed by nth Venture, a bold venture studio that realized the critical factor in developing extraordinary organizations is not capital; it’s talent. nth Venture helps build businesses from the ground up and serves as a home for projects that don’t need to squeeze into the traditional corporate or venture capital molds but that can’t be done alone.

As Chief Growth Officer, you will lead & own:

• Initial and ongoing Go-to-Market plan through the initial launch
• Identify and match initial use cases and trials with repeatable verticals and initial targeting
• Create resource/headcount plan for marketing and sales for CERTD over a two-year horizon post launch
• Attract talent from both in and outside of your network consistent with our business plan and market approach

The most competitive candidates will have the following qualifications:

Substantial and meaningful leadership experience selling Learning solutions, including but not limited to:

• Building and leading a sales team, preferably in an early-stage startup environment, personally engage in key account sales and ongoing customer success.
  • Designing, executing, and measuring sales and marketing campaigns, growing a consumption-based business; developing and understanding marketing and sales metrics
  • Developing and optimizing sales pipeline and forecast process with a focus on predictability.
  • Demonstrated experience with data management and analysis, trends and demands, adjusting strategy, budget, product, and content as needed; creating data-driven programs to drive company strategy.

Player/coach - strong entrepreneurial mindset and desire to build, improve, sell alongside and mentor a team with a high level of energy and drive; greatly want to use your experience and resources to help build a start-up from the ground up; Identify areas for improvement and proactively implement positive change

No-ego leader; can-do attitude and roll-up-the-sleeves attitude that instills confidence through collaboration and influencing

Gravitas: you carry yourself with confidence and speak clearly, with conviction

Additional details:

Central to our mission is the belief that tying pay to hours worked is an unfortunate vestige of the industrial revolution that isn’t fit for great talent in the modern working world. Our compensation philosophy is built on twin pillars: Profit-sharing and Equity (granted via Restricted Stock Units or “RSUs”):

• By compensating our people on a profit-sharing basis, we 1) fundamentally support rather than exploit our people, 2) keep the BS to a minimum, and 3) unlock the insane power of durable, high-performance teams.
• By issuing equity grants with a standard 10-year vesting period, we make every employee an owner and incentivize the creation of long-term value.

See nthventure.com for more details on our radical alignment approach to compensation, and watch this short video to learn more about profit sharing.

See this blog post for more details on our culture.

We have a remote-first culture and operate in a highly virtual and asynchronous environment. Applications are held in the strictest confidence.

Our Purpose: Set talented people free through the power of ownership.

Our Professional Values:

• Integrity: We do what we say and say what we mean. We are ethical. We operate with uncorrupted soundness of character.
• Discipline: We get the job done with high fidelity, quality, and intensity of purpose.
• Acumen: We excel at what we do and constantly learn to improve.

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