
Chief Executive Officer
What is saas.group ?
Profile Overview
Your responsibilities
- Own growth for a product-led (PLG) SaaS business: sharpen the product, drive acquisition and activation, and build a scalable go-to-market engine:
marketing and product
are the two competencies that matter most here
- Drive operational excellence: build budgets, track KPIs, optimize ROI, and implement process improvements that increase efficiency and scalability.
- Build, coach, and retain a high-performing leadership team; create succession plans and ensure organizational resilience, including across multiple small, complementary brands as the portfolio grows.
- Foster innovation by identifying disruptive trends (including AI), experimenting with new business models, and making data-driven bets that strengthen market position.
- Champion a strong culture: set high performance standards, encourage collaboration, ensure alignment with saas.group values, and embed diversity and inclusion.
- Be ready to take on additional brands within the same space as the portfolio grows
What you bring to the table
- Proven leadership experience as a CEO, GM, or senior executive in a
B2B SaaS HR Tech company,
ideally product-led (PLG), with a strong track record of driving growth and building enduring businesses.
- A strong
operational and commercial background
Marketing and product as core strengths
: demonstrated ability to grow a SaaS product's user base and revenue through marketing-led and product-led motions.
- Strong financial acumen: budgeting, forecasting, and P&L responsibility, with proven ability to link financial discipline to sustainable growth.
- Experience leading organizational transformation through process improvements, operational standardization, and adoption of cutting-edge practices.
- A talent magnet: skilled at hiring, developing, and retaining top performers, mentoring future leaders, and creating succession pipelines.
- Strong people leadership: ability to set goals, hold teams accountable, address performance issues decisively, and nurture a culture of excellence.
- Comfort managing more than one brand or business line at once, with the versatility to context-switch across a small portfolio of complementary products.
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Fluent German speaker
with strong English, given the initial market focus on Germany; international experience or ambition is a plus as these brands expand beyond DACH.
- Visionary mindset with the ability to communicate a compelling long-term direction that inspires both internal and external stakeholders.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, with fluency in English (additional languages are a plus).
- AI Literacy & Application: You actively use AI tools to enhance personal productivity and work quality, staying curious about emerging capabilities and identifying opportunities to apply AI pragmatically in day-to-day work.
What's in it for you
- Ultimate flexibility: We're 100% remote. You can work from wherever you like, whenever you like.
- Freedom and autonomy: We're a high-trust team, and you'll be given lots of flexibility to solve problems in your own way - with plenty of help from the team when you need it.
- Minimum bureaucracy: We don't like to get bogged down with meetings and red tape. We like to be efficient and keep momentum steady and sustainable.
- Small and friendly team: We help each other out, have fun, and joke around.
- Our network: We are a community of entrepreneurial SaaS professionals that regularly exchange ideas, knowledge, learning, and expertise with each other internally.
- Flexible time off: We want you to recharge your batteries when needed.
We don't just simply offer you to "take a job with us" but rather to "join us on this journey" to build the world's largest platform of independent SaaS companies.
Sounds like something you're up for? Feel free to apply even if you don't check all these boxes. We believe in the power of diversity and fresh perspectives to spice up our team. Your application might just be the missing ingredient!
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saas.group is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you're passionate about working with a team that values innovation, excellence, and fairness, we encourage you to apply.
We believe in fair and transparent pay. Salary ranges at saas.group are location-adjusted, targeting local market medians for a remote-first environment, and will be shared with our potential future employees in writing before your first interview - so you have everything you need to evaluate the opportunity.
Not included in the source posting: qualifications, benefits.
Skills
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