Frank is changing students’ lives for the better. Since 2013, Frank has introduced Finland’s first digital student ID, reached over 70k monthly users and grown from an idea into a 15 person innovation hub based in the heart of Helsinki. As of fall 2019, big things are happening for us. Our market leading service has just opened for all 700,000 students in Finland, and thus doubled its user potential. This is a start of a whole new chapter, and for it, we are now looking for our next CEO.
Main responsibilities
As a CEO, your mission is to lead Frank towards further growth and development. On a strategic level, your focus will be on these areas:
Sparring with the board and your team to take Frank’s user acquisition, retention and monetization to a whole new level
Find and build new opportunities and partnerships nationally and internationally
Liaising with owners and leading the company in a profitable growth path, while ensuring sufficient financing for it
Required business experience
We expect you to be capable of high-quality strategic thinking, to develop and justify your vision on how Frank should be run, and executing that vision with your team. We at Frank believe in learning by doing, but for this position you should already have a proven track record and knowledge on
Leadership of a team, business area or a (small/growth) company
Creation of a strategy and roadmapping it with business KPIs
Implementing the approved strategy and roadmap
Running different parts of a growing company, including business planning, dealing with finances and accounting, building the company culture, recruiting new team members, product management, sales and marketing
We also highly appreciate
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Finnish and English
Interest towards both B2C (student life!) and B2B sides of our business
Capabilities to coach product, sales and marketing teams
Capabilities to analyze different business options, and to make and justify decisions
Eye for empathy and team-building
Capable management of relationships with our different stakeholders, including student organizations, business partners and governmental bodies
We offer competitive salary and benefits, 15 awesome colleagues and a chance to make a tangible difference through your work. We are on a growth track and continuously developing our service in a fast-moving market, so you won’t run out of new opportunities and partners to work with. Our office is located in Kaisaniemi, Helsinki.
If you think that this could be your position, please reach out with your application, CV and salary request through https://frank.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:290799/. Deadline for applications is October 14th.
For more information, please contact Chair of the Board, Matti Parpala, at 040 846 3847 on either Fri 27.9. between 14.30-16 or Thu 3.10. between 15.30-17.
P.S. Do you know just the right person for the job? If you can hook us up with the right person, we are ready to make it worth your while!
This job comes with several perks and benefits