Commercial Managing Co-Founder | NL

Build Europe’s Next Workspace Brand | Commercial Managing Co-Founder (Equity)

📍 The Netherlands | Remote | Full-time | International role | Opportunity for participation

This is no ordinary job.

This is an opportunity to build a company.

At YOUNG Workspaces, we believe that the future of work is not just about square footage, desks, and meeting rooms. It is about creating inspiring environments where entrepreneurs, startups, scale-ups, and established companies meet, collaborate, and grow.

YOUNG Workspaces stands at the beginning of an ambitious new growth phase.

That is why we are not looking for a traditional manager.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial and commercially driven Commercial Managing Co-Founder who wants to stabilize, scale up, and expand YOUNG Workspaces with us into a leading European workspace brand.

Someone who not only wants to manage an existing organization, but who wants to take responsibility for the next phase.

About YOUNG Workspaces

YOUNG Workspaces is part of YOUNG , an international business group active at the intersection of workspaces, hospitality, real estate, media, investments, and startups.

We develop and operate inspiring workspaces for entrepreneurs and organizations that need flexibility, community, and a professional environment in which they can grow.

Our ambition is clear: to build a strong and scalable workspace platform that can grow by:

• Improving the commercial performance of existing locations.
• Increasing the occupancy rate and revenue.
• Professionalizing and stabilizing the organization.
• Opening new locations.
• Entering into strategic partnerships.
• Realizing acquisitions.
• Developing a recognizable international brand.

We don’t just build workplaces.

We are building an international ecosystem for entrepreneurs and companies.

You can find more information at www.young.com .

Your mission

As Commercial Managing Co-Founder, you will become one of the driving forces behind the next growth phase of YOUNG Workspaces.

You work directly with the founders and take responsibility for both strategy and execution. You translate our ambitions into concrete commercial results, a stable organization, and a scalable business model.

Your most important task is clear:

increase revenue, optimize occupancy, stabilize the organization, and achieve sustainable growth.

You will be involved in, among other things:

• Developing and implementing the commercial growth strategy.
• Increasing revenue, margin, and profitability.
• Optimizing the occupancy rate of existing locations.
• Improving member acquisition, customer retention, and commercial conversion.
• Building a predictable and scalable sales pipeline.
• Developing new propositions, pricing models, and revenue streams.
• Professionalizing sales, marketing, and business development.
• Building and managing a commercial team.
• Entering into partnerships with real estate owners, project developers, brokers, investors, and entrepreneur networks.
• Identifying and assessing new locations and acquisition opportunities.
• Developing growth plans for the Netherlands and other European markets.
• Monitoring commercial and operational KPIs.
• Creating structure, focus, and execution power within the organization.
• Representing YOUNG Workspaces to partners, customers, and other stakeholders.

You are not only responsible for plans and presentations.

You ensure that sales, improvements, implementations, and scale-ups actually take place.

Who are we looking for?

You are not a classic manager who primarily manages processes.

You are an entrepreneur.

You spot opportunities and know how to convert them into revenue, partnerships, and growth. You are strategically strong but also feel at home in day-to-day operations. You can negotiate at the executive level while simultaneously being willing to pick up the phone yourself to capitalize on a commercial opportunity.

You get energy from:

• Building companies.
• Closing deals.
• Developing commercial opportunities.
• Enabling people and teams to perform better.
• Bringing structure to a growing organization.
• Taking responsibility.
• Working with clear objectives.
• Achieving growth in an international environment.

You don’t wait until everything is perfectly organized.

You help organize it.

Preferably, bring the following:

• Demonstrable commercial and entrepreneurial experience.
• Experience with scaling up a company, business unit, or commercial team.
• A strong track record in sales, business development, or commercial management.
• Experience with revenue responsibility and result-oriented KPIs.
• Experience in coworking, flexible offices, hospitality, commercial real estate, proptech, franchising, or a similar growth market.
• The ability to translate strategy into concrete execution.
• Strong negotiation and relationship management skills.
• Experience in building and managing teams.
• A hands-on mentality and a strong sense of ownership.
• The flexibility to travel within the Netherlands and internationally.

You speak Dutch and English fluently.

Additional languages ​​are an advantage, but not a requirement.

Why this opportunity is different

Most companies are looking for an employee.

We are looking for someone who wants to help build it as if it were their own business.

Someone who wants to be responsible not only for a position, but for the results of the company.

Someone who:

• Strategically, we want to have a say in decision-making.
• Wants to become ultimately commercially responsible.
• wants to create long-term value.
• Is willing to bear responsibility and entrepreneurial risk.
• Want to grow with the success of the organization.

For the right candidate, there is an explicit opportunity and intention to participate in YOUNG Workspaces .

The exact form of participation, conditions, and phasing are linked to mutual fit, commitment, performance, and long-term objectives.

We believe that someone who helps build at the founder level should also have the opportunity to grow along at the founder level.

What do we offer?

• A key position within YOUNG Workspaces.
• The opportunity to help build a European growth company.
• Direct collaboration with the founders of YOUNG.
• A lot of freedom, responsibility, and influence.
• A remote position based in the Netherlands.
• Flexibility in structuring your work week.
• Competitive compensation commensurate with the stage and responsibility of the role.
• Result-oriented agreements and clear growth objectives.
• The opportunity to participate in the company in the long term.
• An international work environment.
• Traveling within the Netherlands and Europe for locations, acquisitions, partnerships, and growth projects.
• A position where your impact is measurable and visible from day one.

The Netherlands as home base. Europe as the playing field.

This position is remote and based in the Netherlands .

You work largely from home or a location that is effective for you. At the same time, this is not a fully location-independent position.

You are regularly present at locations, commercial appointments, with partners, and during strategic meetings. Additionally, you travel to other European countries when necessary for acquisitions, collaborations, investment opportunities, and international expansion.

So you combine the freedom of remote working with the responsibility and visibility of a managing co-founder.

Our application process

We believe that a good match is about much more than just a CV.

That is why our application process is aimed at getting to know the person behind the experience. We want to understand what you have built, how you think, what drives you, and how you handle responsibility and entrepreneurship.

Step 1 — Apply online

Send us your CV and a short cover letter explaining why this particular entrepreneurial role suits you.

Step 2 — Make a short introductory video

Record a video of about 2 to 3 minutes in which you introduce yourself.

Tell us who you are, what you have built, and why you think you can contribute to the growth of YOUNG Workspaces.

Step 3 — DISC Personality Analysis

When we see sufficient points of contact for a potential match, we invite you to complete a DISC personality analysis .

Step 4 — First meeting

You will have an in-depth conversation with our recruitment team about your background, ambitions, leadership style, and commercial experience.

Step 5 — Conversations with the founders

You will meet the founders of YOUNG Workspaces.

During these conversations, we discuss our ambitions, the current phase of the company, commercial growth opportunities, your vision, and the possible terms for a long-term collaboration and participation.

We will keep you informed of the progress throughout the entire process.

Our goal is not simply to fill a vacancy.

Our goal is to find the right entrepreneur who wants to build the next phase of YOUNG Workspaces with us.

Do you see yourself in this?

Are you primarily looking for security, a clearly defined set of duties, and a fully established organization?

Then this is probably not your next step.

But are you looking for:

• Entrepreneurship.
• Ultimate commercial responsibility.
• Freedom and influence.
• An international growth mission.
• The opportunity to build value.
• The intention to participate in the long term.
• The opportunity to build a European workspace brand.

Then we would love to get to know you.

Help build the future of work.

Help build YOUNG Workspaces.

Apply using this link .