Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)
restauwantYork, PA
Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)
L8
restauwantYork, PAtoday
Occupations
Marketing ManagersFood Service ManagersHosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee ShopBuild the commercial future of hospitality technology. About restau WantHospitality is one of the world's largest industries, but the technology and marketing systems available to the businesses within it remain fragmented. Restaurant groups and hospitality brands are expected to attract guests, understand customer behavior, build loyalty, manage marketing across locations and make better commercial decisions — often using disconnected platforms, agencies and manual processes. We believe there is an opportunity to do this differently.restauWant is building an integrated ecosystem of technology and creative capabilities designed specifically for the hospitality industry. Our ambition is to help hospitality businesses operate more intelligently, market more effectively and grow with better insight into their customers and performance. Our business brings together three complementary areas:restauWant App — Hospitality Marketing Technology A marketing operating system built for restaurant marketers, agencies and hospitality groups. It brings together guest engagement, campaign management, customer insights, segmentation, loyalty and performance reporting, helping connect marketing activity with actual business outcomes. Designed with multi-brand and multi-location businesses in mind, the platform creates opportunities to make sophisticated hospitality marketing more accessible, measurable and scalable. Creative & Marketing Studio — Creative That Drives Hospitality Growth A specialist creative and marketing practice serving hospitality brands through photography, video, content production, branding, campaigns and marketing strategy. We combine creative execution with an understanding of the commercial realities of hospitality. Technology & Intelligence — Practical AI and Business Systems We design and implement technology that helps hospitality businesses work smarter. This includes AI applications, workflow automation, integrations, data systems, dashboards and custom software solutions. Together, these capabilities create a broader opportunity: not simply to sell individual services or software subscriptions, but to build long-term relationships with hospitality businesses and become a valuable technology and growth partner.
The Opportunity:
- We're looking for a Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer to help shape and lead the next chapter of restauWant.
- We've spent years building the foundation for a new kind of hospitality business: combining purpose-built marketing technology, creative and marketing expertise, and practical technology and AI solutions to help hospitality businesses operate more intelligently and grow.
- With our marketing platform now launched and our broader capabilities established, we're focused on expanding our reach, developing strategic relationships and bringing our vision to a much larger market.
- Working directly with the founder, you'll take a leading role in defining and executing the company's commercial strategy. You'll drive revenue growth, develop key customer relationships, establish strategic partnerships and build the commercial organization as restauWant scales.
- This is an opportunity to help build more than a sales function. You'll have a meaningful influence on the company's direction, the markets we pursue, the partnerships we develop and how we bring our products and capabilities to the hospitality industry.
- For the right person, it's an opportunity to help shape an ambitious international business and share in the long-term value we create.
- What you'll build and own1. Commercial strategy and company growth
- Shape and lead the overall commercial strategy in partnership with the founder.
- Identify the highest-value markets, customer segments and opportunities across hospitality.
- Develop a coherent go-to-market strategy for our App, Studio and Technology & Intelligence offerings.
- Establish revenue priorities, commercial targets and a repeatable approach to growth.
- Identify opportunities to expand customer relationships across our products and services.
- Help shape the company's positioning, pricing, packaging and long-term commercial model.2. Sales and customer acquisition
- Personally develop and close strategic customer relationships.
- Build a pipeline across restaurant groups, multi-location operators, hospitality brands and marketing agencies.
- Develop new business for our SaaS platform, creative services and technology implementations.
- Create effective sales processes, messaging, qualification frameworks and proposals.
- Build relationships with senior decision-makers and develop a strong understanding of their commercial challenges.
- Turn early customer wins into repeatable acquisition and revenue opportunities.3. Strategic partnerships and distribution
- Develop relationships with hospitality agencies, consultants, technology providers and industry partners.
- Establish referral, reseller, affiliate and channel partnerships.
- Create scalable distribution opportunities for the restauWant App.
- Explore strategic collaborations that extend our reach into restaurant groups and hospitality markets.
- Build a network of partners that can accelerate customer acquisition and delivery.4. Building the commercial organization
- Establish the processes, systems and infrastructure needed for scalable sales.
- Identify opportunities to use partnerships, technology and specialist talent to increase commercial capacity.
- Recruit and develop future sales, business development and partnership talent as the business grows.
- Build a culture focused on ownership, customer value, accountability and commercial performance.
- Work closely with the founder to align product development, customer needs and market opportunities.
- Who we're looking for We're interested in entrepreneurial commercial leaders who have demonstrated that they can build, not simply manage.
- You may be an experienced sales leader, a founder, an early commercial executive or someone who has helped take a technology business from an early stage into meaningful growth.
- You should bring:
- A strong track record of generating revenue and closing B2B business.
- Experience building commercial functions, sales processes or go-to-market strategies.
- Experience in SaaS, hospitality technology, restaurant technology, marketing technology or related B2B markets.
- An understanding of restaurant groups, multi-location operators, hospitality agencies or the broader hospitality ecosystem.
- Experience developing strategic partnerships, distribution channels or reseller relationships.
- The ability to identify commercial opportunities and turn them into tangible results.
- Confidence operating in an early-stage environment where initiative, adaptability and execution matter.
- Strong communication, negotiation and relationship-building skills.
- An entrepreneurial mindset and genuine interest in building a company.
- Experience selling into the US hospitality market is particularly valuable. We are open to candidates internationally who can help us develop business across the US and European markets.
- The kind of person who will thrive here
- You are commercially ambitious, but also practical.
- You enjoy opening doors, developing relationships and winning business. You can think strategically, but you're equally comfortable picking up the phone, building a prospect list, developing a partnership proposal or leading an important customer conversation.
- You don't need a large team or an established infrastructure to make progress. You know how to create momentum with limited resources, prioritize opportunities and build systems as you go.
- You are excited by the possibility of building something meaningful, taking real ownership and sharing in its long-term success.
- Most importantly, you see the opportunity in bringing technology, marketing, creative capabilities and industry expertise together for hospitality.
- Why restauWant?
- A defined industry focus: Hospitality is a substantial global market with complex, recurring needs across marketing, technology and operations.
- An established foundation: Join a business with an existing product, technical capabilities, creative expertise and a clear market focus.
- Multiple commercial opportunities: Build revenue across SaaS subscriptions, services, implementation projects and strategic partnerships.
- A scalable product opportunity: Help bring a hospitality-specific marketing platform to agencies, restaurant groups and multi-location operators.
- The chance to shape the company: Work directly with the founder and influence the company's strategy, priorities and direction.
- Long-term ownership: Participate in the value created through meaningful founding equity.
- Founding participation and compensation
- This is a senior founding opportunity with meaningful equity participation and the opportunity to help shape the company's long-term direction.
- We are open to discussing the appropriate partnership and compensation structure based on the individual's experience, contribution, commitment and the stage of the business.
- The intention is to find a genuine long-term commercial partner who wants to take ownership of building and growing restauWant.
Location:
Remote and internationally open. We are particularly interested in candidates with strong relationships or commercial experience in the US hospitality market, while remaining open to people who can help us develop opportunities across Europe and other markets. Interested? If you've built commercial growth in hospitality technology, SaaS or a related industry — and the opportunity to help build something from an early stage excites you — we'd like to hear from you. Tell us about what you've built, the commercial results you've driven and why this opportunity interests you. Let's build the next chapter of hospitality technology together.https://www.restauwant.com/
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Level
DirectorL8
Location
York, PA
Occupation
Marketing Managers
Industry
Full-Service Restaurants
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