Executive Coach at Sharpist

Overview

Executive Coach position in Berlin, on-site, full-time. We’re hiring an executive coach for Hendrik (CEO of Sharpist) for the next 12+ months as part of a category-defining transformation from a profitable coaching platform into an AI-driven category bet in professional development. The coach is a key hire who helps Hendrik operate at a higher altitude, setting missions, building scalable systems, and stepping back from routine operational work.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the intellectual sparring partner to help implement the leadership shift and ensure the transformation sticks.
• Lead coaching engagements that center on executive development rather than advisory or operational work.
• Provide ongoing coaching to Hendrik with the aim of elevating his leadership, decisions, and personal operating system.
• Spar with Hendrik on strategic questions through coaching rather than prescribing solutions.

Non-negotiables

• C-level operating experience in enterprise SaaS during the 10M+ ARR scale phase. Founder, CEO, COO, or equivalent.
• Not early-stage, not adjacent industries, not advisory-only careers. They must have personally lived the altitude shift targeted by this role.
• Expert coach whose primary craft is coaching — actively practicing, trained, certified, and not primarily an adviser.
• Track record coaching founders or CEOs through similar inflection points; ability to name them (under NDA) and provide references from current or recent coachees at this level.

What we are not looking for

• Generalist executive coaches without enterprise SaaS context.
• Operators-turned-advisors with strong opinions on what Hendrik should do.
• Wellness, life, or holistic coaches.
• ICF-credential-only coaches without operating depth.
• Anyone who treats this as just another engagement rather than a transformation.

Focus areas

• Move from leader-of-leads to true CEO altitude — football manager mode, not player.
• Build a personal operating system away from task-list-driven work.
• Interrupt the tendency to lean into operational work under stress.
• Design the team architecture around Hendrik — firefighter roles, accountability anchors, ownership transfer.
• Increase leverage and impact with the leadership team.
• Sustainable energy management.
• Spar through strategic coaching questions rather than prescriptions.

Logistics

• Engagement: ongoing, likely 2–4 sessions per month.
• Format: preferably delivered via the Sharpist platform (using our product is a signal and research).
• Geography: irrelevant; we want the best person globally.
• Language: English as working language.

Search posture

• This is an active, high-touch search. We will source from operator and founder networks, vet ruthlessly against non-negotiables, run multiple candidates in parallel, and move fast once we find the right person.
• A first conversation with Hendrik should address: C-level enterprise SaaS experience through the 10M+ ARR scale-up, primary coaching craft today, ability to hold space and avoid prescribing, willingness to spend two sessions per month with Hendrik for 12 months, and engagement prioritization over other opportunities.

Notes: The right candidate is rare; we seek AAA+ in the market, not just the best among applicants.