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Director of Growth Strategy & Finance - Expansion Team - Warsaw, PL
CICPolandfull_timeVerifiedPosted 16 May 2025
About the role
We are seeking a Director of Growth Strategy & Finance to lead CIC’s global expansion efforts. Reporting to the CEO this strategic and high-impact role is focused on identifying new markets, developing business cases, and advancing opportunities from early concept through signed agreements.
You’ll work with external partners—including city governments, universities, hospital systems, and developers—to shape and evaluate potential CIC locations. The role combines financial modeling, strategic planning, and partnership development to help determine where and how CIC grows next.
ABOUT CIC & CIC WARSAWCIC is a global leader in building and operating innovation communities. Founded in 1999 in Cambridge, MA, CIC is one of the first companies to offer flexible office space and coworking options, providing a platform for the world’s most impactful entrepreneurs to innovate better and faster. We have locations in Boston, Cambridge, Philadelphia, Providence, Rotterdam, St. Louis, Warsaw, and Tokyo, and are growing into other cities. CIC Warsaw, opened in 2020, is one of the largest innovation-oriented centers in Europe. Our office is located directly next to the Warsaw Central train station and is housed within Varso Place, a new landmark on Warsaw’s map with the tallest building in the EU. Our Warsaw team consists not only of community and relationship teams working together to provide the best community experience but also finance, IT, software and recruiting teams supporting our global efforts.
We invite you to explore all our openings and learn more about our teams here.
YOUR DAY-TO-DAY WORKIn this role, you will be responsible for:• Managing driving of the expansion/growth pipeline, including sourcing new opportunities, managing and evaluating inbound opportunities, diligence, negotiation and execution• Being fully autonomous (responsible for conceptualization, design, execution and accuracy/checking) on development and checking of new economic models for new ventures being considered by CIC (product offerings, sales channels, capital sources, etc) with a strong focus on building models for pricing and contract bids for real estate projects.• Using models to think strategically about opportunities from a holistic company perspective. You will also be making project level go/no go decisions autonomously while also driving discussions and recommendations to executive management on strategy and operational roll out where their input is required.• Building relationships throughout the company to enable identification of opportunities to drive improvements on current processes for rolling out new ventures and quarterback initiation/implementation of new ideas.• Evaluate growth and partnership opportunities using key metrics , demographics, competitive data, leveraging industry expertise• Wholly owning project structuring process and negotiations with internal and external partners. Comfortable drafting term sheets , letters of intent (LOI) and investment memoranda• Working closely with CIC’s finance and operations teams to integrate financial projections into underwriting.• Analyzing financial results to identify revenue and cost trends at both a project and company level.• Providing guidance to other CIC departments on making expansion/growth financial decisions• Collaborating cross-functionally to ensure that key financial assumptions, benchmarks, and models are shared and understood across internal stakeholders involved in expansion decisions.
ABOUT YOUCIC seeks highly capable, self-directed individuals who thrive in environments where autonomy, strategic thinking, and collaboration intersect. You are someone who:• Is committed to transparency, accountability, and data-informed decision-making.• Is naturally analytical and curious, with a strong ability to distill complexity into actionable insights.• Can operate with focus and accuracy under pressure and tight timelines.• Takes a hands-on, humble approach—willing to roll up your sleeves and contribute at every level.• Is passionate about innovation and supporting ventures that have real-world impact.• Enjoys working in a collaborative, flat organization where you will engage directly with senior executives.• Is interested in a long-term role within a growing, global company, with opportunities to evolve over time.• Brings optimism, integrity, and patience to a dynamic and constantly changing environment.• Is flexible working across time zones and thrives in cross-functional, international teams.
YOU HAVE• A bachelor’s degree in economics, finance, business, or a related field (an MBA is a plus).• Direct experience working on expansion projects—such as launching new locations, evaluating new markets, structuring partnerships, or supporting large-scale business growth initiatives.• Demonstrated experience in building complex financial and economic models
You’ll work with external partners—including city governments, universities, hospital systems, and developers—to shape and evaluate potential CIC locations. The role combines financial modeling, strategic planning, and partnership development to help determine where and how CIC grows next.
ABOUT CIC & CIC WARSAWCIC is a global leader in building and operating innovation communities. Founded in 1999 in Cambridge, MA, CIC is one of the first companies to offer flexible office space and coworking options, providing a platform for the world’s most impactful entrepreneurs to innovate better and faster. We have locations in Boston, Cambridge, Philadelphia, Providence, Rotterdam, St. Louis, Warsaw, and Tokyo, and are growing into other cities. CIC Warsaw, opened in 2020, is one of the largest innovation-oriented centers in Europe. Our office is located directly next to the Warsaw Central train station and is housed within Varso Place, a new landmark on Warsaw’s map with the tallest building in the EU. Our Warsaw team consists not only of community and relationship teams working together to provide the best community experience but also finance, IT, software and recruiting teams supporting our global efforts.
We invite you to explore all our openings and learn more about our teams here.
YOUR DAY-TO-DAY WORKIn this role, you will be responsible for:• Managing driving of the expansion/growth pipeline, including sourcing new opportunities, managing and evaluating inbound opportunities, diligence, negotiation and execution• Being fully autonomous (responsible for conceptualization, design, execution and accuracy/checking) on development and checking of new economic models for new ventures being considered by CIC (product offerings, sales channels, capital sources, etc) with a strong focus on building models for pricing and contract bids for real estate projects.• Using models to think strategically about opportunities from a holistic company perspective. You will also be making project level go/no go decisions autonomously while also driving discussions and recommendations to executive management on strategy and operational roll out where their input is required.• Building relationships throughout the company to enable identification of opportunities to drive improvements on current processes for rolling out new ventures and quarterback initiation/implementation of new ideas.• Evaluate growth and partnership opportunities using key metrics , demographics, competitive data, leveraging industry expertise• Wholly owning project structuring process and negotiations with internal and external partners. Comfortable drafting term sheets , letters of intent (LOI) and investment memoranda• Working closely with CIC’s finance and operations teams to integrate financial projections into underwriting.• Analyzing financial results to identify revenue and cost trends at both a project and company level.• Providing guidance to other CIC departments on making expansion/growth financial decisions• Collaborating cross-functionally to ensure that key financial assumptions, benchmarks, and models are shared and understood across internal stakeholders involved in expansion decisions.
ABOUT YOUCIC seeks highly capable, self-directed individuals who thrive in environments where autonomy, strategic thinking, and collaboration intersect. You are someone who:• Is committed to transparency, accountability, and data-informed decision-making.• Is naturally analytical and curious, with a strong ability to distill complexity into actionable insights.• Can operate with focus and accuracy under pressure and tight timelines.• Takes a hands-on, humble approach—willing to roll up your sleeves and contribute at every level.• Is passionate about innovation and supporting ventures that have real-world impact.• Enjoys working in a collaborative, flat organization where you will engage directly with senior executives.• Is interested in a long-term role within a growing, global company, with opportunities to evolve over time.• Brings optimism, integrity, and patience to a dynamic and constantly changing environment.• Is flexible working across time zones and thrives in cross-functional, international teams.
YOU HAVE• A bachelor’s degree in economics, finance, business, or a related field (an MBA is a plus).• Direct experience working on expansion projects—such as launching new locations, evaluating new markets, structuring partnerships, or supporting large-scale business growth initiatives.• Demonstrated experience in building complex financial and economic models
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