Cinereach Chief Strategy and Growth Officer

About CinereachFor 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 OpportunityCinereach 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 ResponsibilitiesStrategic 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 OneIn th