Founding Business Leader – Agentic AI & Talent IntelligenceAbout the Opportunity
SkillsCapital is looking for an exceptional Founding Business Leader to lead and scale its validated Agentic AI-driven Talent Intelligence / Talent Intelligence-as-a-Service business globally.
This is not a zero-to-one role . The business, technology, product, and commercial model have already been validated, with production-ready technology, paying customers, an existing team, and international market traction .
Your mandate is to turn this foundation into a repeatable, scalable global business , working directly with the founders and leadership team.
About SkillsCapital
SkillsCapital is an AI-native Talent Intelligence platform helping organizations discover, evaluate, match, and deploy specialized technology talent across:
- SAP
- Cloud
- AI/ML
- Software Engineering
- Cybersecurity
- Data
- Enterprise Technology
Our technology combines AI-Native Talent Intelligence, Agentic AI, intelligent matching and evaluation, semantic intelligence, workflow automation, talent data, expert validation, and delivery-readiness intelligence .
Over the past year, SkillsCapital has:
- Built and deployed a production-ready AI-Native Talent Intelligence platform and Talent Engine
- Developed proprietary AI and Agentic AI-driven talent workflows
- Established customers and relationships across the US, UK, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East
- Achieved a multi-million-dollar annual run rate
- Bootstrapped the business to profitability
- Built a growing network of deeply vetted technology professionals
The Role
You will own the commercial growth and scaling of the business , including:
Business Strategy
- Define revenue targets, growth strategy, target markets, ICPs, vertical priorities, KPIs, and expansion strategy.
Enterprise Customer Acquisition
- Build a repeatable enterprise sales engine across direct sales, strategic accounts, consultative selling, partnerships, channels, and account expansion.
- Target staffing/recruitment firms, IT services companies, consulting firms, system integrators, technology businesses, and enterprises.
Revenue Growth
- Scale the business from early traction to significant global revenue.
- Own pricing, packaging, enterprise contracts, sales processes, recurring revenue, cross-sell, expansion, and commercial models.
GTM
- Build and optimize the complete funnel:
- Positioning → Demand Generation → Qualification → Demo → Pilot → Conversion → Expansion
- Improve messaging, sales narratives, proposals, pilots, conversion rates, sales cycles, and customer expansion.
Market Expansion
- Identify and prioritize opportunities across the US, UK, Europe, Middle East, Australia, and other high-value markets.
Strategic Partnerships
- Build relationships with staffing firms, recruitment companies, IT services organizations, consulting firms, system integrators, technology platforms, HRTech companies, industry associations, and talent networks.
Product Commercialization
- Work with product and technology teams to translate AI and Talent Intelligence capabilities into commercially valuable customer solutions.
- Influence priorities across AI, Agentic workflows, matching, evaluation, delivery readiness, automation, analytics, and enterprise workflows.
Customer Adoption & Cross-Functional Leadership
- Drive product adoption, engagement, workflow penetration, renewals, expansion, and cross-sell.
- Align Product, Technology, Sales, Marketing, Delivery, Customer Success, Partnerships, and Operations around commercial priorities.
What We're Looking For
We're looking for someone who has demonstrated the ability to take a validated technology or business proposition and scale it commercially .
Relevant experience may include:
- Enterprise SaaS / B2B platforms
- AI / Technology
- HRTech / TalentTech
- Recruitment technology / Staffing
- IT Services / Consulting
- Enterprise software
- Marketplaces
- AI-enabled business models
You should bring:
- Strong enterprise commercial judgment
- Experience selling complex technology
- Proven GTM and revenue-scaling capabilities
- Strategic relationship-building and negotiation skills
- Product and technology understanding
- Executive communication skills
- Cross-functional leadership
- High ownership and execution orientation
- Entrepreneurial mindset
Particularly valuable: existing relationships in staffing, recruitment, or IT services; experience selling AI/SaaS platforms; CXO-level selling; international business development; and experience scaling a new business or product line.
Who This Role Is For
This role is for a commercially driven entrepreneur who can move fluidly between:
Strategy → Customers → Product → Sales → Partnerships → Revenue → Operations
You don't need to be the deepest AI expert in the room, but you must understand AI, enterprise technology, and talent workflows well enough to translate technology into customer value and commercial opportunity .
You should be commercially sharp, resourceful, customer-focused, data-driven, decisive, comfortable with ambiguity, and highly execution-oriented .
Why Join SkillsCapital?
You will have the opportunity to:
- Lead a validated AI-native technology business
- Start with real customers and commercial traction
- Leverage a production-ready AI-Native Talent Engine
- Scale deployed Agentic AI workflows
- Work directly with the founders
- Own revenue growth and global GTM
- Build strategic partnerships
- Influence product commercialization
- Expand into international markets
- Build the next stage of the organization
- Participate in the potential creation of a major global Talent Intelligence-as-a-Service business
The technology works. Customers are paying. The model is validated. Now help us build the global business around it.
Compensation & Ownership
This is a senior entrepreneurial leadership opportunity with significant long-term upside, including:
- Competitive base compensation
- Performance-based incentives
- Meaningful equity / ownership opportunity
- Long-term wealth creation potential
- Increasing compensation and ownership as the business scales
This is not a conventional corporate BU Head role with a large established organization. It is best suited for someone motivated by ownership, AI, enterprise technology, revenue, global scale, entrepreneurship, and long-term value creation .
How to Apply
Send your resume to with:
- A short note explaining why the opportunity interests you
- Examples of businesses, products, or platforms you've scaled
- Your most significant revenue/growth achievements
- Enterprise sales or GTM initiatives you've led
- Your LinkedIn profile
- Compensation and ownership expectations
- We care more about what you've built, sold, scaled, and achieved than your title.