Executive Cofounder - Strategy, Growth & Execution

Have you been a founder or co-founder before? Have you previously had one or more successful exits from a company you founded or co-founded? Are you ready to bring your entrepreneurial experience into your next venture and help scale a company to the next level? We are building an ambitious company ROAD SYSTEM with the potential to become a leading player in road infrastructure assessment and monitoring, and we are looking for an executive cofounder to help take it to the next level. The ROAD SYSTEM has been supported by EIT Urban Mobility and the European Space Agency, helping us develop and bring to market a cutting-edge solution that is already transforming how road infrastructure monitoring is carried out. We have validated the market with our first sales and customers, now we need someone who can turn vision into execution: sharpen strategy, build commercial momentum, develop partnerships, help raise capital and ultimately build the organisation required to scale. We are particularly interested in someone with strong commercial experience and executive presence. You should be comfortable speaking with customers and investors and doing hands-on work when necessary. What should motivate you? A desire to build something significant rather than simply take another executive position. You should be motivated by the opportunity to create value from an early, but already validate stage. We are looking for someone who enjoys turning ambiguity into direction, sees obstacles as problems to solve and is comfortable being accountable for outcomes. This stage requires ambition without ego, urgency without recklessness and the willingness to stay close to the details while thinking several years ahead. Most importantly, we want a co-founder who genuinely wants the founder journey: the uncertainty, the difficult decisions, the intensity and the disproportionate upside that comes from getting it right. What makes you impossible to say no to? We want to build this as a genuine partnership, that means open debate, fast decisions, clear ownership and transparency about the things that matter: strategy, economics, equity, fundraising and risk. I value people who challenge assumptions and bring a different perspective rather than simply agreeing with us. We work with a combination of high standards and high autonomy. Once we agree on the objective, we want each founder to have the freedom to own their area and make decisions. The right person will have real influence over the direction of the company and meaningful participation in the upside we create. The goal is to build a company we are both proud to have spent years of our lives creating.