CEO, White Label Software/App Dev

Company: StrideNex
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Location: London
Job Description:

Company Details

StrideGhost is a white-label web, software, and app development delivery company operating within the StrideNex group.

It provides execution-first build services to agencies, studios, and commercially strong partners who lack in-house engineering capability.

StrideGhost operates as a discreet, brand-agnostic delivery layer, enabling partners to:

  • Sell and manage client relationships
  • Retain full ownership and credibility
  • Deliver high-quality technical solutions without internal build teams
  • Focus purely on execution against defined specifications, without involvement in product strategy, advisory, or client-facing consulting.
  • Generate predictable, repeatable, high-margin delivery revenue while supporting partner growth at scale.

About the Role

This is a delivery business leadership role focused on:

  • Revenue generation through agency partnerships
  • Operational efficiency and margin control
  • Scalable execution systems

Strategic Leadership & Positioning

  • Define and execute the commercial and operational strategy for StrideGhost
  • Establish the company as a trusted white-label delivery partner to agencies and studios
  • Position the business around reliability, discretion, and execution quality
  • Build a model optimised for scale, repeatability, and margin

Revenue & Partnership Acquisition

  • Lead acquisition of core partner segments:
    • Web and design agencies
    • Product and digital studios
    • Freelancers and small commercial teams
    • Build long-term, embedded partner relationships (not one-off projects)
  • Structure commercial agreements including:
    • Retainers
    • Volume agreements
    • Overflow capacity models
    • Own revenue growth and pipeline consistency

Operational Delivery & Execution Systems

  • Build and optimise a high-efficiency delivery engine across:
    • Web builds
    • MVP software
    • Mobile applications
    • Integrations and lightweight platforms
  • Ensure all work is delivered:
    • Partner-defined specifications
  • Implement scalable processes for:
    • Project intake and scoping
    • Resource allocation
    • QA and delivery standards

Technical–Commercial Alignment

  • Maintain strong alignment between delivery teams and commercial commitments
  • Ensure feasibility, timelines, and cost structures are realistic and controlled
  • Protect margins through disciplined scope management

Team & Delivery Model Leadership

  • Build and oversee a flexible delivery model:
    • Gradual introduction of core in-house capability
  • Maintain high standards across:
    • Technical execution
    • Communication and responsiveness
    • Delivery reliability
  • Embed a culture of:
    • Accountability
    • Precision
    • Project margins
    • Cost structures
    • Scalable capacity
  • Ensure the business is not constrained by delivery bottlenecks

Accountability

  • Building a consistent and scalable partner pipeline
  • Achieving revenue and margin targets
  • Delivering high-quality work at volume without operational breakdown
  • Creating a repeatable, systemised delivery model
  • Ensuring partner retention and long-term relationships

Compensation

This role begins as an equity-based leadership position, with salary introduced as revenue scales.

On offer

  • Equity tied to performance milestones
  • Founding leadership position within StrideGhost
  • Opportunity to influence broader StrideNex group growth
  • Future compensation aligned to revenue and profitability

Year 1 Focus

  • Build a reliable delivery engine
  • Achieve consistent monthly revenue
  • Validate pricing, margins, and operational model
  • Create repeatable delivery workflows

Ideal CEO for StrideGhost

  • Experience scaling or operating within:
    • Technical outsourcing or white-label environments
  • Strong commercial and partnership-building ability
  • Proven experience managing delivery teams or technical projects
  • Operational discipline and systems thinking

Ideal

  • Experience with white-label or agency partnerships
  • Track record of building scalable service operations
  • Strong understanding of:
    • Web and app delivery environments
  • Experience managing distributed teams
  • Ability to balance speed, quality, and margin

Personal Attributes

  • Commercially sharp and execution-focused
  • Process-driven and detail-oriented
  • High ownership mindset
  • Focused on outcomes, not theory

Ready to Apply?

If you’re excited by the idea of architecting, owning and running your own company in the software development space from scratch and becoming a part of an ambitious Group Ecosystem – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply by emailing your CV to Wendy@StrideNex.com

This is an opportunity to build a powerful development machine with potentially huge valuation upsides.

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Posted: April 28th, 2026