Dreaming about running your own agency? Why don’t you stop dreaming and make it a reality! By becoming our Head of Agency you’ll get to head up and grow The Upbeater Agency like it was your own, but with the benefit of having some things already in place. You’ll get to be part of an exciting growth journey and a rewarding working environment. The best part? You'll get to support up-and-coming-talent (students) and up-and-coming-innovation (startups) to reach success!

The opportunity

We're very excited to open up a key position as Head/Owner of one of our 2 active business areas - The Upbeater Agency - for a driven and entrepreneurial minded person!

In collaboration with our CEO you'll be responsible for the growth and development of The Upbeater Agency - a new kind of agency working with talented students to help startups with projects within App & Web Development, Business, Marketing and Visual Communication. 

As Head of Agency, you should feel excited about the thought of taking ownership of a whole business area, including managing it, developing it and growing it to become the #1 agency that startups want to work with, and that students to want to work for!

Note. This is a co-founder / co-owner opportunity. Please read ALL the info before applying & make sure you’re not just looking for a job. 

Key responsibilities:

• Business development & growth:

  • Find new business opportunities (marketing & sales)

  • Recruitment & team building

  • Continuously improve processes, workflows, efficiency and results

• Daily operations:

  • Project management

  • Staffing & managing employees

  • Customer & partner relationships

• Setting & meeting goals and expectations:

  • Customer satisfaction & success goals

  • Growth/business development goals

  • Financial goals

• Other 

  • Stakeholder management

  • Financials; budgeting, managing & reporting 

To be a match, you should; 

• Have the right skill-mix of business skills, creative mindset and executional abilities.

• Be an entrepreneur / founder type person who gets excited by the thought of running your own projects, department or company. 

• Believe in our mission of helping students and startups grow and want to find new or more efficient ways to support the mission.

• Want to be part of building and growing Upbeater as a business and brand. 

More specifically we think that you are; 

• Able to focus and take full responsibility for the tasks at hand, while not loosing sight on future goals 

• On top of things and detailed oriented, yet can have a sound judgement about what's good enough

• Not afraid of taking on challenges and put in the work needed to see results

• A natural leader with the ability to motivate, inspire and build strong teams 

• A sales, growth driven, business developer person, not afraid to hustle   

• Self driven and able to get things done

• Comfortable wearing many hats 

BONUS if you’ve previously; 

• Worked with startups, know the scene, have a big network and passion for the industry

• Been in the agency world, know the scene, have a big network and passion for the industry

• Worked with students, have a big network and passion for the industry

PS. As we're a startup/young company, it's important that the person joining us thrive in an environment where structure, processes, and "business as usual" are not common language.

Details

We offer a fun challenge, a possibility to be part of growing and shaping a business, a lot of freedom to build something great and important along with;

Compensation; Commission + some base + ownership

Location; Flexible and mostly remote with base in Stockholm or other parts of Europe (Lisbon, London, Berlin, Copenhagen) 

Application deadline; Applications accepted & reviewed continuously.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you! 

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