CEO/Co-founder

What we do

Specialty chemicals runs on supply chains that most executives never see until they break. In 2021, a single grounded vessel closed the Suez Canal for six days. From late 2023, attacks in the Red Sea forced major carriers to reroute around the Cape of Good Hope. Low water on the Rhine has repeatedly constrained the movement of chemicals through Europe’s industrial heartland. Pandemics, cyberattacks and new regulation have disrupted the same flows by other routes.

The cost of these events is real, but the information needed to measure it sits far from the events themselves. HarbingerIQ closes that gap. Our flagship platform connects external disruption to a company’s operational information and translates exposure into financial consequence at the decision level, before the loss appears in the results.

We assess disruption across five forces: geopolitical, climate, health, cyber, and regulatory. Any one of them can compromise a critical port, corridor, or supplier. Together they define the risk that global chemical supply chains carry every day.

Our flagship platform is ready, and we are raising a seed round to bring it to market at scale.

The opportunity

Every large manufacturer carries this exposure, and few can quantify it before it arrives. You would join at the point where a ready platform meets a market that increasingly needs answers, with the chance to shape the company's commercial identity from the start.

Why this role exists

The platform is built. The next stage is about scale: building a commercial organization, raising capital, and winning the confidence of the largest names in specialty chemicals. We are looking for a co-founder who will lead that effort as Chief Executive Officer, working in close partnership with our technical co-founder, who leads engineering and product.

What you will do

• Build the customer base. Open doors at large specialty chemicals and agrochemical producers through your own senior relationships, lead the commercial conversation, and bring anchor accounts to a close.
• Lead the seed round. Own the fundraising process from investor strategy through close. Build the pipeline, tell the HarbingerIQ story with conviction, negotiate terms and manage diligence.
• Set commercial strategy. Decide positioning, pricing, target segments and partnerships, and determine which markets and buyers come first.
• Build the go to market engine. Shape the sales process, channels and events, set the metrics the company runs on, and make the first commercial hires as funding allows.
• Partner with the founding team and the Board. Work as a true counterpart to the technical co-founder, with commercial strategy and capital under your leadership and engineering and product under theirs. Report to the Board in plain language.
• Represent the company. Be the voice of HarbingerIQ with customers, investors, industry bodies and the press, and build its reputation as a credible authority on supply chain financial risk.

What you bring

Personal qualities

You are passionate about:

• Building solutions that make supply chains stronger and more resilient
• Scaling a start up from a ready platform into a company that customers and investors trust
• Staying resilient and persistent through the long, demanding work of building something new

What success looks like

The milestones below are indicative. We will discuss detail with candidates who are interested.

Horizon Critical Milestones

First 90 days

• Commercial strategy set with the founding team;
• A focused target account list built;
• Senior relationships established across the industry

First 6 months

• Lead customer relationships underway and the seed round in active progress

First 12 months

• Seed round closed
• A repeatable sales motion in place
• The first commercial hire made

Beyond A commercial organization and customer base that supports the next stage of growth

What we offer

• A co-founder title with meaningful equity, subject to customary vesting

• Cash compensation appropriate to an early stage company, growing with funding

• A differentiated platform that addresses a problem every large manufacturer faces

• A founding team that values deep engineering and commercial leadership equally

Interested?

We welcome conversations in confidence. Please introduce yourself with a brief summary of your experience and the relationships you would bring to HarbingerIQ.

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