Chief Revenue Officer

Auckland, New Zealand

About the role

Chief Revenue Officer Role at Joyous Product Overview See what makes Joyous different to other tools Integrations Connect your favorite systems to Joyous AI Draft, chat, analyze, act. Effortlessly with AI Services Need expert help? We offer more than support. Stories Try it free Pricing AI Get trade-in offer Get trade-in offer Book a demo Book a demo Get trade-in offer Careers at Joyous Chief Revenue Officer Location New Zealand, Auckland Employment type Full time Location type Remote Department Sales New Zealand-based | Auckland preferred | Primarily US market Competitive base + performance upside + equity Joyous replaces traditional surveys with dynamic AI conversations and real-time action . Instead of collecting feedback, analysing it later and deciding what to do weeks later, Joyous can understand what people are saying in the moment, ask smarter follow-up questions and help organisations move directly into action. We already have an impressive product and real traction, including many of the world’s largest telecommunications companies across the US, Europe and New Zealand. Now we’re building a repeatable mid-market growth engine across a targeted set of ICPs and need someone to own it.

The role You’ll report directly to our CEO and founder and work in very close partnership with her to build and run the commercial engine across: Marketing → Sales → Activation → Customer Success This will be a highly hands-on role, particularly at the beginning. We expect to grow from a very small commercial team to roughly 10 people. Before there are people to lead, you’ll be in the work yourself: campaigns, pipeline, sales calls, playbooks, customer journeys, hiring and performance. You won’t be starting from scratch. We already have a clear GTM thesis, target ICPs, a detailed sales process, scripts and artefacts that are already being tested, an emerging demand engine and an activation model we want to simplify and increasingly codify into the product. Your job is to take this foundation pressure test, refine and turn it into a repeatable, scaled machine. Who we’re looking for The most important requirement is recent, directly transferable experience . You should currently be, or very recently have been, in a B2B SaaS or AI software company actively building a similar mid-market growth engine . You don’t need to already have the CRO title. While you could be the CRO, we are also open to someone who is currently the hands-on operator underneath a CRO, VP Revenue, CEO or founder and is ready to step up, as long as you were genuinely involved in building the engine and can clearly explain your contribution and the evidence that it worked. If your recent experience is mainly managing a mature team or inheriting an established machine, this probably isn’t the right fit. We really do need someone who has recently been in the engine while it was being built using all the latest tech and approaches successfully .

How we work Joyous is a small, flat and tight-knit team. You’ll work directly with the CEO, founders and early team , with very few layers between something we learn in the market and a decision about what we do next. We value simplicity, speed and ownership. We give people a lot of freedom, but expect a high work rate, strong accountability and clear, transparent communication. This role is NZ-based, with Auckland preferred , and will work primarily into the US market. What you get Equity The opportunity to build and lead the GTM team A close working partnership with the CEO and founder Southern Cross health insurance Six additional paid Joy Days each year EAP support A great home-office setup A differentiated AI product with genuine global customer traction Why now Joyous already has the product, customers, technology and a strong hypothesis for what comes next. What we need now is someone who can turn that into a simple, repeatable mid-market growth engine . For someone who has already helped build one and is ready to move from being a key operator to the person accountable for the whole thing, this could be a career-defining next step. Applying Send your CV to [email protected] and answer three questions in your own words: 1. Tell us about the B2B SaaS or AI growth engine you are currently, or were very recently, involved in building. What did you personally own? 2. What changed as a result of your work? 3. What would you do differently if you were building it again today? A note on AI: we don’t use AI to screen applications. A human at Joyous will read every one. Please don’t use AI to write your application either. We want to understand how you think and what you actually did. Sound like a fit? If you’re ready to help big telco brands transform how they listen, learn, and lead - let’s talk. 1. Tell us how to contact you: Name LinkedIn Profile Email Mobile/phone number 🇳🇿 +64 🇦🇺 +61 🇺🇸 +1 🇨🇦 +1 🇬🇧 +44 🇳🇱 +31 🇩🇪 +49 🇫🇷 +33 ────────── 🇦🇫 +93 🇦🇱 +355 🇩🇿 +213 🇦🇩 +376 🇦🇴 +244 🇦🇷 +54 🇦🇲 +374 🇦🇹 +43 🇦🇿 +994 🇧🇭 +973 🇧🇩 +880 🇧🇪 +32 🇧🇿 +501 🇧🇯 +229 🇧🇹 +975 🇧🇴 +591 🇧🇦 +387 🇧🇼 +267 🇧🇷 +55 🇧🇳 +673 🇧🇬 +359 🇧🇫 +226 🇲🇲 +95 🇰🇭 +855 🇨🇲 +237 🇨🇱 +56 🇨🇳 +86 🇨🇴 +57 🇨🇷 +506 🇭🇷 +385 🇨🇾 +357 🇨🇿 +420 🇩🇰 +45 🇪🇬 +20 🇸🇻 +503 🇪🇪 +372 🇪🇹 +251 🇫🇮 +358 🇬🇦 +241 🇬🇲 +220 🇬🇪 +995 🇬🇭 +233 🇬🇷 +30 🇬🇹 +502 🇬🇳 +224 🇬🇾 +592 🇭🇰 +852 🇭🇺 +36 🇮🇸 +354 🇮🇳 +91 🇮🇩 +62 🇮🇷 +98 🇮🇶 +964 🇮🇪 +353 🇮🇱 +972 🇮🇹 +39 🇯🇵 +81 🇯🇴 +962 🇰🇿 +7 🇰🇪 +254 🇰🇷 +82 🇰🇼 +965 🇱🇻 +371 🇱🇧 +961 🇱🇾 +218 🇱🇮 +423 🇱🇹 +370 🇱🇺 +352 🇲🇴 +853 🇲🇰 +389 🇲🇾 +60 🇲🇱 +223 🇲🇹 +356 🇲🇦 +212 🇲🇽 +52 🇲🇩 +373 🇲🇨 +377 🇲🇳 +976 🇲🇪 +382 🇲🇦 +212 🇲🇲 +95 🇳🇦 +264 🇳🇵 +977 🇳🇬 +234 🇳🇴 +47 🇴🇲 +968 🇵🇰 +92 🇵🇦 +507 🇵🇾 +595 🇵🇪 +51 🇵🇭 +63 🇵🇱 +48 🇵🇹 +351 🇶🇦 +974 🇷🇴 +40 🇷🇺 +7 🇸🇦 +966 🇸🇳 +221 🇷🇸 +381 🇸🇬 +65 🇸🇰 +421 🇸🇮 +386 🇿🇦 +27 🇪🇸 +34 🇱🇰 +94 🇸🇪 +46 🇨🇭 +41 🇹🇭 +66 🇹🇷 +90 🇺🇦 +380 🇦🇪 +971 🇺🇾 +598 🇺🇿 +998 🇻🇪 +58 🇻🇳 +84 🇿🇲 +260 🇿🇼 +263 Select your country code, then enter your number. 2. Tell us about you and why you’re interested in this role: Your story 3. Upload your resume: Upload File Max file size 10MB. Uploading... fileuploaded.jpg Upload failed. Max size for files is 10 MB. Thanks! We'll be in touch once we've reviewed your application. If you'd like to add anything else, please drop us a message: [email protected] Close Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form. Joyous

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About Joyous

From Ideas to Impact: Unify People and Decision Makers

Make the best decisions using the best data. Joyous builds human relationships and aligns people around common challenges, leveraging their ideas to make an impact.

Joyous helps people talk about a specific topic that impacts them every day—right at the time decision makers are planning to do something about it. Joyous starts conversations, and a real person from the organization responds.

Joyous identifies actionable phrases, groups them in real-time, and delivers a prioritized action plan. Joyous accelerates operational excellence, strategic program execution, transformation, tools adoption, customer experience, and more.

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Job details

Location

Auckland, New Zealand

Company

NameJoyous
IndustryAdministrative Services
Team Size2

Funding

Total raised

$14.7M

Last stage

Series A

Investors

SSquare Peg Capital
AirTree Ventures
Icehouse Ventures
TTuhua Ventures
CCallaghan Innovation

Founders

Michael Carden

Michael Carden

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

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Philip Carden

Philip Carden

Co-Founder

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.