Chief Growth Officer

We’re the top family beach portrait company on the Big Island with $700k revenue in 2025. There are two parts of the business: Luau Entry Photography & Beach Portrait Sessions. Luau pays the bills so that Beach Portrait Sessions can be the profit driver.

The next steps: Perfect the model on Big Island, fill the calendar, then copy paste to Oahu, Maui, - Kauai. Become the undisputed state‑wide champions of capturing family memories.

This role is built for one specific person:

You have already:

• Scaled a destination‑based service business (photography, tours, weddings, activities, etc.) to multi‑7‑figure profitably.
• Mastered organic, high‑converting marketing in a tourist/destination market (Instagram reels that book shoots, SEO that ranks #1, Pinterest flywheels, TikTok, referral systems, etc.)
• Won contracts with strategic partners over entrenched competition - Can you walk into a Four Seasons, The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Ritz‑Carlton, Andaz, or The Grand Wailea, get past the gatekeepers, and take contracts from our largest competitor?
• Expanded geographically without destroying profits.

Our Company Values (you will be judged on these daily)

1. Customer‑Centered Experience - We make booking, shooting, and receiving galleries stupid‑easy and joyful. Zero friction.
2. Quality and Excellence - Every single gallery is vibrant, emotional, frame‑worthy work our families treasure forever.
3. Authenticity and Connection - We capture real moments, real laughter, real tears.
4. Professionalism and Reliability - On time, over‑communicate, under‑promise, over‑deliver. Always.
5. Creativity and Innovation - We keep evolving and stay the obvious choice.

If you haven’t lit up already, stop reading.

What You’ll Own

• Full P&L
• Multi‑island expansion roadmap and execution
• Landing (and renewing) luxury resort partnerships on every island
• Building an organic marketing machine supplemented by paid ads. Fill that calendar!
• Hiring, training, and quality control.

The Comp Plan

• Start: $48,000 base (lean on purpose. You’re here to build wealth, not collect a paycheck)
• Permanent salary increases to $65k to $75 to $90k to $105k to $125k when we hit $1M / $2M / $3M / $4M / $5M revenue, as long as EBITDAtargets are also met.
• Up to $75k/year performance bonuses
• You earn real equity up to a 10% Cap as we hit revenue + EBITDA milestones together.
• 4‑year vesting, 1‑year cliff per tranche.
• If we fall below EBITDA targets for 12 straight months to salary freeze, bonuses stop, no new equity until fixed.

Landing resort contracts + organic marketing playbook while keeping EBITDA targets, and you’ll hit: $125k base + $75k performance bonus + 10% equity.

This is not a job.

This is an opportunity to help build & own part of the most dominant family photography brand across all of Hawaii, starting from a Big Island base that is already established.

If you’ve closed large strategic partner deals, ranked #1 organically in a destination market, and scaled geographically without killing profit — send me:

1. Resume + Cover Letter
2. Documented Proof of Success: i.e., businesses scaled, revenue/profit numbers, strategic partner contracts you personally landed, organic and paid channels you own
3. 5‑minute video outlining your 90‑day plan to get us to the first equity milestone. ($1M Revenue + 20% EBITDA)

Email: View email address on click.appcast.io

Mahalo!