Chief Strategy and Growth Officer

About the Organization Short Summary Pursuit is a pioneering AI-native organization building the nation's premier tech workforce pipeline to unlock lasting economic mobility for low-income and underrepresented communities. Long Summary For over a decade, Pursuit has unlocked economic mobility by propelling thousands of adults from low-income backgrounds into high-wage tech careers, taking average starting incomes from $17K to $94K and generating nearly $1B in lifetime wage gains. We've also pioneered the Pursuit Bond, an innovative outcomes-based financing model that aligns investor returns with long-term economic mobility, allowing us to scale impact in a financially sustainable way. Three-year retention runs at 92%, nearly 30 points above industry average. 97% of eligible Fellows get promoted. Now, as AI reshapes the global economy, Pursuit is pioneering the nation's premier AI-Native workforce pipeline. We are transforming how economic opportunity works at scale through a rigorous, full-funnel training model combining in-person collaborative learning, real-time curriculum adaptation, and deep employer integration. Powered by $23M in scale funding from organizations like Google, Anthropic, Adobe, Blackstone, Robin Hood and others, Pursuit is building a roadmap of growth to directly train thousands of more Americans and to build enduring workforce training solutions that can support the ecosystem at large. About the Position Pursuit is seeking a Chief Strategy and Growth Officer (CSGO) to serve as a pivotal architect of our next chapter of scale. Reporting directly to the CEO, the CSGO will help shape enterprise strategy, building a comprehensive roadmap for enterprise growth, expanding our proven core model to a broader population, and aggressively exploring, testing, and scaling new delivery and partnership models to support closing the AI skills gap at scale. The CSGO reports directly to the CEO and sits on Pursuit's senior leadership team. The role is designed to hold the organizational-level strategy that sits above functional execution. Core Responsibilities • Serve as executive architect of multi-year enterprise strategy, working with the CEO and leadership team to establish growth targets, market-entry criteria, and strategic prioritization across core programs, venture partnerships, and earned revenue models. • Lead the decision-making process with CEO and senior leaders for scaling strategy - designing robust selection frameworks, sustainable economic models, launch roadmaps, and governing go/no-go decision architecture. • Direct a dynamic portfolio of strategic initiatives working with senior leaders across program and partnerships to design pilot programs, defining performance metrics, and support seamlessly transitioning validated models into permanent operational ownership. • Architect the enterprise earned revenue strategy, defining high-margin commercial products, monetization structures, and strategic partner channels to fuel long-term financial sustainability. • Partner closely with the CEO and senior leadership team to design evolving organizational topologies, executive team structures, and strategic sequencing to support rapid scaling. • Collaborate with executive leadership to align multi-year capital deployment with enterprise growth priorities, establishing clear funding strategies and resource allocation frameworks. • Drive commercial placement innovation in partnership with the VP of AI Talent Placement, establishing scalable B2B talent integration models with leading employers. • Design, test, and execute rigorous trials, pilots, and experimental initiatives to pioneer new strategic pathways—defining market-entry criteria, ground-level success requirements, and target staffing models f