Thames Street Capital
Chief Executive Officer
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Founding Chief Executive Officer
London | Competitive CEO Salary + Equity + Bonus + Growth Capital
About the Job
Have you ever wanted to build your own social-first agency?
Thames Street Capital is looking for a founding-CEO to build their own social-first agency. We are a consumer commerce venture capital firm and our portfolio includes eVenturing (a 5-year old, London based company of 60 people managing over £500m annual revenue).
Starting a business from scratch is hard. We lower the barrier to entry by putting you on a healthy CEO salary to remove the worry, providing the growth capital to turbo charge your success and build your team and, very uniquely, giving you access to an established client ecosystem. In return, you own the strategy, the P&L, and the outcome.
What you'll own
- Agency strategy: setting the direction for a new social-first agency and owning full P&L responsibility.
- Client relationships: building on Thames Street Capital's existing ecosystem of commerce brands, with warm introductions from portfolio companies.
- New business: driving founder-led sales to win and grow client accounts.
- The operating model: designing how the agency delivers work, from team structure and capacity to deal flow and offerings.
- Pricing and delivery standards: setting commercial terms and the quality bar the agency operates to.
- Team building: hiring and building the agency's team from the ground up.
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Ideal candidate / What you'll bring
- A 0-1 operator: Was employee #1-10 at an early-stage startup, OR an early hire building a new function from scratch. Comfortable building something from nothing, with no existing playbook to follow.
- Proven sales outcomes: held a quota-carrying or new-business sales role and has a genuine belief in founder-led sales.
- Commercial acumen: owned a P&L, budget or account portfolio with financial accountability.
- Direct experience or comfort setting up an agency specialising in creator management, paid amplification and programmatic. Experience working at a marketing, creative or media agency.
- Entrepreneurial drive: Hungry for ownership and the upside of running your own business, without betting personal capital to get there. Bonus if you've ever founded your own thing, freelanced or done some independent consulting.
- Familiarity with FMCG: Has worked on FMCG client accounts (Amazon/e-commerce experience is a plus, not required).
- Marketing & Advertising industry experience: 6+ years working at a marketing, creative or media agency.
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Package
- Competitive CEO Salary
- Large equity stake
- Performance based bonus as the agency scales
- Growth capital to fund agency growth and team
- Access to the investment group's existing client ecosystem
Job Type
- Full-time
- London
The application journey
- Recruiter call: our associate will reach out for an introductory conversation.
- Initial Chat with the investors: a conversation with the investor to learn more about your experience.
- Case study: completing a case study to learn how you'd approach the role.
- Cocreate your business plan: create the business plan the agency with the support and mentorship from the investment group.
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