Cinereach Chief Strategy and Growth Officer

About Cinereach

For two decades, Cinereach has been a home for visionary storytellers and groundbreaking ideas in independent film. Today, Cinereach is evolving as a storytelling studio—a creative catalyst that seeds and amplifies stories when and where they matter most.

Our mission is to connect creators with the insights, movements, platforms, and resources they need to make, and move, culture through story. We work at the intersection of storytelling and the systems around it, helping creators and narrative practitioners navigate AI, emerging distribution platforms, shifting economics, and changing ecosystems.

The Opportunity

Cinereach is seeking a Chief Strategy and Growth Officer to help lead the organization into its next chapter. Reporting to the CEO and serving as a member of the executive team, this role leads Cinereach’s strategic direction and growth agenda, with Partnerships, Business Development, and Brand and Marketing reporting into it.

This is not a traditional strategic planning role and it is not a role for someone whose contribution ends at the framework. Cinereach already has deep strategic thinkers, strong foresight instincts, and rich cultural and narrative expertise across the organization. What this role adds is the ability to turn insight into action: to translate where the field is moving into partnerships that get struck, new revenue that gets built, and a brand and community that grow measurably.

The work spans three connected dimensions. Strategic direction means using foresight, market analysis, and cultural and narrative analysis to chart where things are moving and where Cinereach should place its bets. New revenue and business development means building toward real revenue, from partnerships to potential service lines for creators and narrative infrastructure, including up to one-third of revenue from new sources within two to three years. And activation means turning all of it into execution rather than frameworks alone.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Direction & Positioning:

• Drive and refine strategic direction based on cultural intelligence tools, market analysis, foresight, and ecosystem signals.
• Develop strategic insight and planning frameworks, and decision tools that guide leadership choices across the organization.
• Clarify Cinereach’s positioning in the broader landscape: where we are uniquely suited to lead, where partnership is the better path, and what we should stop, evolve, or sunset.
• Formalize the planning and insights function so external signals are regularly translated into actionable choices for leadership and CEO decision‑making.

Growth, Business Development & New Revenue:

• Own a growth agenda that translates into measurable new revenue, including up to one-third of revenue from new sources within two to three years.
• Identify, test, and launch mission-aligned growth tracks including partnerships, content offerings, and service models for creators, that deepen relevance and support long‑term organizational health.
• Lead partnerships where they decidedly become business development: co‑created ventures, transactions, and revenue‑bearing relationships.
• Think holistically about the pipeline across Cinereach’s revenue lines, philanthropy, fund and investment activity, and new service models, so the organization can sequence and resource its bets.

Brand, Communications & Thought Leadership:

• Lead the next phase of Cinereach’s brand and communications strategy, ensuring messaging, positioning, audience strategy, and marketing funnels support both mission and growth.
• Build a thought leadership platform that strengthens Cinereach’s influence in the field, turning insight into visibility, trust, and strategic differentiation.
• Oversee how Cinereach communicates what it uniquely offers and why it matters now, across creators, partners, funders, and broader audiences.

Community, Learning & Activation:

• Build and deepen relationships with key constituencies, creators, storytellers, partners, funders, investors, technologists, and people using narrative as a tool for impact.
• Design content experiences that help creators address meaningful challenges and build capability over time, including navigating AI and emerging platforms.
• Build community engagement strategies that increase participation and create durable network effects around Cinereach’s work.
• Convert strategy into execution: move from framing to accountable next steps, and ensure ideas become things that ship.

Partnership with the CEO, Board & Team:

• Serve as a close thought partner to the CEO and leadership team, synthesizing emerging ideas and external signals into actionable strategic choices.
• Bring rigor, pattern recognition, and scenario thinking to the organization’s next chapter, converting vision into roadmaps, priorities, and planning inputs.
• Support the CEO in preparing strategic context for the board, and help board members and champions activate their networks in support of Cinereach’s strategy.

What Success Looks Like in Year One

In the first 12 months, success will be defined by tangible movement—partnerships in motion, early revenue signals, and a sharper brand—alongside a planning and insights function that genuinely supports decision‑making.

• A set of credible growth tracks has been identified and prioritized, with at least one experiment or pilot launched and showing early traction or a revenue signal.
• At least one new partnership or business‑development relationship has moved from concept toward execution.
• Cinereach has a clear next‑phase communications and brand strategy, with stronger marketing funnels and a thought leadership platform in motion.
• There is a clear strategy for constituency‑building, with at least one learning initiative designed and tested.
• The planning and insights function supports a regular cadence of signals, synthesis, and decisions—measured by the choices it enables, not the apparatus it creates.

Qualifications

You are a builder and operator who thinks strategically—someone who has personally closed partnerships, launched new offerings or business lines, and worked through messy, zero‑to‑one problems, not just designed the plans for others to run.

There are many paths to the skills and perspective this role requires. We take a broad view of experience and want to get to know the unique strengths you bring to this work. We are most likely to be interested in your candidacy if you can demonstrate the majority of the qualifications below.

• A strong bias toward action: if it came to a trade‑off, an ability to deliver on activation matters as much as strategic thinking. We prioritize candidates whose strategy is evident in what they have built and shipped.
• 15+ years in senior strategic and/or leadership roles across entertainment, media, technology, consulting, and/or mission‑driven organizations.
• A demonstrated track record of personally driving growth and new revenue—closing partnerships, structuring deals, and launching new products, services, or business lines.
• Significant experience in strategic communications, brand strategy, audience development, or marketing.
• A track record of leading organizational transformation, long‑range strategy, or growth initiatives in dynamic environments.
• Deep understanding of media and technology ecosystems, including how storytelling, creators, platforms, and emerging technologies interact.
• Demonstrated acuity with how AI is reshaping the media landscape, including both opportunities and risks for creators, storytelling, and distribution.
• Fluency across both commercial and mission‑driven contexts—bringing for‑profit growth instincts while holding cultural and narrative signals as seriously as market ones.
• Experience leading teams and influencing at the executive level across functions.
• Comfort operating in a remote, distributed environment with high collaboration, high trust, and strong communication across distance.

Also valuable: experience with fundraising, philanthropic partnerships, or capital strategy; startup or early‑stage experience, especially in zero‑to‑one environments; and experience navigating the cold‑start problem.

If you are genuinely excited about this role but your experience does not meet every single qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Compensation, Benefits & Location

This is a full‑time position within Cinereach’s remote, distributed team, with high collaboration across distance.

The salary range for this role is $262,000–$275,000 annually. This base is exclusive of a performance‑based incentive bonus, which is awarded on top of base salary, and is accompanied by a generous benefits package. Cinereach is committed to an equitable, transparent compensation process.

How to Apply

Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their applications promptly through our online portal. All applicants who apply through our online portal will receive a response. Please get in touch with View email address on click.appcast.io with questions or to request support in submitting your application.

Candidates who advance can expect an initial screening conversation with the Positively Partners team, followed by interviews with Cinereach’s leadership team.

Positively Partners is committed to conducting an equitable, accessible search process. Accommodation requests during the interview process will be handled confidentially. Please email View email address on click.appcast.io to make a request.

Cinereach is an equal‑opportunity employer and encourages candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply.