We’re Hiring – CEO

We are looking for a CEO to join Enlitened

Who we are?

Enlitened is a 25 person B2B SaaS start-up created by The Student Room Group – the UK’s largest student community, which has been supporting students for 20 years.

With Enlitened we are now on a mission to help universities (and later, schools and colleges) transform first student, then their staff, engagement and well being globally.

We are 18 months into our journey, with revenues, with a completely new category of product that drives continuous improvement in two highly strategic areas for universities.

We have quickly gained momentum, with considerable interest from across the Higher Education sector.

We have completed three successful UK pilots, signed multi-year agreements with four university clients, where we are now rolling out at scale. We have a healthy UK pipeline and early interest from overseas. Find out more at www.enlitened.org.

We are now looking for a CEO to drive growth and fundraise.

What does a CEO at Enlitened do?

We are looking for an ambitious and driven CEO to drive the growth of Enlitened in the UK and then globally. This is an entrepreneurial founder Chief Executive/CEO role, not a corporate CEO role.

You will be responsible for:

Providing inspirational leadership and vision to the team, as well as to clients and the broader sector.
Creating and executing a highly ambitious long-term company strategy, whilst ensuring the organisation is consistently delivering in the short term on its growth metrics.
Listening and adapting with an entrepreneur’s soul, to the clients, market, and students, to develop highly effective strategies and products which drive product-market fit, enabling fast commercial growth.
Understanding the market, student and customer needs, and competitors inside-out, and building strong industry relationships.
Attracting and retaining the best leadership talent.
Planning and executing fundraising, and maintaining excellent investor relations.

Key role responsibilities:

The ideal candidate will:

Have a burning, irrepressible desire to build something great and the willingness to give their all to get there.
Be a highly intelligent, logical and analytical problem solver
Have high integrity, authenticity and personal humility
Have excellent communication skills, paint a compelling vision and make fast, high quality decisions
Be a highly competent and prudent manager
Have delivered high growth and created high-performing teams that scale well
Have a talent for evolving products to fit market needs and drive growth
Be a metric driven manager, who is great at organisational design and performance management
Have a hunger and talent for quickly and thoroughly learning a new domain
Be used to fast-growth and constant change
Have been a senior business leader and be familiar with a diverse range of business functions and P&L management
Have experience of multi-country operations

You may also:

Have a background in B2B SaaS
Have experience in companies selling to large organisations with complex high value products
Have experience of working within, or in organisations selling to, the complex and nuanced university sector
Have experience of working on both consumer-facing and B2B products
Have previous corporate finance experience
Have been a CEO, CPO, CMO, CSO, Managing Director, General Manager
Have an MBA, or other relevant degree

Working at TSR – Benefits Include

Competitive salary
Generous approach to holidays + your birthday day off
Flexible working hours and arrangements
Group Life insurance
Generous pension scheme
Private healthcare
Cycle to work Scheme

To apply for this position, please email a cover letter (including your salary expectations) and your current CV to hr@thestudentroom.com

Strictly NO agencies.

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