Chief Revenue Officer
KUNGFU.AI · Austin, TX · 2 wk ago
HybridMarketing$20/hrFull-time
What you will do
- Build and Scale the Commercial Growth Engine
- Design and lead the company’s overall revenue strategy as the organization scales from an emerging growth-stage business into a significantly larger and more sophisticated market player.
- Build a repeatable and scalable commercial operating model that creates predictable growth while maintaining the entrepreneurial and relationship-driven culture that has fueled the company’s success to date.
- Mature the systems, forecasting discipline, operating rhythms, and commercial accountability required to support long-term scale and increased revenue predictability.
- Lead the evolution of the company’s commercial infrastructure, including pipeline management, forecasting rigor, revenue analytics, sales processes, and performance measurement.
- Develop a highly disciplined revenue organization capable of navigating long enterprise sales cycles, complex AI transformation engagements, and rapidly evolving client priorities.
- Lead Strategic Growth Across Commercial and Public Sector Markets
- Develop and execute differentiated go-to-market strategies across both commercial enterprise and public sector clients.
- Help the organization identify where the AI services market is heading and help to continuously evolve the company’s commercial positioning to stay ahead of market shifts and emerging opportunities.
- Drive expansion into larger and more strategic enterprise relationships while also broadening and diversifying the company’s revenue base.
- Lead the development of a formal strategic account program designed to deepen client relationships, expand existing accounts, and increase long-term account value and retention.
- Partner closely with leadership, delivery, and operations teams to ensure growth strategies are aligned with delivery capacity, talent availability, and client success outcomes.
What you will bring
- Revenue Leadership and Scaling Experience
- Proven experience scaling a professional services, consulting, technology, or AI-related business through significant growth stages.
- Track record building repeatable commercial systems and scalable revenue organizations — not simply leading through personal relationships or individual deal-making.
- Experience leading organizations through periods of rapid growth, market evolution, and organizational complexity.
- Strong understanding of enterprise sales motions involving large, strategic, and consultative engagements with long sales cycles.
- Commercial Systems and Forecasting Discipline
- Demonstrated ability to build operational rigor within revenue organizations, including forecasting, pipeline management, commercial analytics, and revenue accountability.
- Experience developing scalable sales processes, commercial operating cadences, KPIs, and organizational performance frameworks.
- Strong commercial instincts balanced with analytical rigor and operational discipline.
- Experience improving forecast accuracy, pipeline health, and revenue predictability within high-growth organizations.
- Strategic Account and Commercial Growth Expertise
- Deep experience building strategic account programs that drive meaningful account expansion, long-term client relationships, and durable recurring revenue.
- Experience developing differentiated go-to-market strategies and evolving commercial models in dynamic and fast-changing markets.
- Strong understanding of pricing strategy, value-based selling, and commercial structures within consulting or professional services environments.
- Experience balancing large transformational opportunities with portfolio diversification and long-term revenue durability.
- AI, Technology, and Market Fluency
- Strong understanding of AI, data, digital transformation, or emerging technology consulting markets.
- Deep curiosity about how AI is reshaping enterprise operations, commercial organizations, customer expectations, and consulting delivery models and hands-on experience experimenting with and putting into production AI-enabled processes and capabilities.
- Ability to understand complex technical concepts and translate them into commercially effective growth strategies.
- Highly curious and excited about the evolving AI-native sales and marketing technology landscape.
- Executive Leadership, Operator Mindset & Professional Services Expertise
- Deep understanding of consulting and professional services economics, including utilization, delivery capacity, margin management, and relationship-driven growth models.
- Experience operating successfully within founder-led, entrepreneurial, and high-growth organizations where executive leaders are expected to balance strategic leadership with hands-on execution.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to build credibility and trust with founders, partners, executive leadership, clients, and board stakeholders.
- Comfort operating in environments with ambiguity, rapid change, evolving market conditions, and shifting commercial dynamics.
- Ability to simultaneously maintain long-term strategic focus while adapting quickly as markets, technologies, and customer expectations evolve.
- Team Building and Organizational Leadership
- Proven experience building, mentoring, and scaling high-performing commercial organizations and leadership teams.
- Strong leadership capabilities with a demonstrated commitment to developing talent, building accountability, and fostering a high-performance culture.
- Ability to drive alignment and collaboration across fast-moving, cross-functional organizations.
- A builder mindset with the stamina, adaptability, and leadership presence required to help scale a company through its next major stage of growth.
Culture and Values
- We are committed to building an inclusive, high-performance culture that values both excellence and humanity.
- Our values guide how we work:
- Caring: People first, always
- Inquisitive: Constant learners and teachers
- Open: Diverse perspectives make us better
- Inventive: Big ideas grounded in execution
- Trustworthy: Trust is earned through action
- We also believe in using AI for Good, contributing time and expertise to pro bono and social-impact initiatives.
What's In It For You
- Competitive base salary
- Equity participation
- Top-tier health, dental, and vision insurance (100 percent covered for employees)
- Generous parental leave
- Flexible PTO Policy, actively encouraged
- Hybrid work environment
- The opportunity to help shape the future of an AI-native consulting firm