FoodLabs

Co-Founder – CMO (gn) @ Healthy Consumer Brand, Riyadh, KSA

FoodLabs  •  Riyadh, SA (Onsite)  •  2 months ago
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Job Description

About this Opportunity

This is not a traditional CMO role: This is an opportunity to found your own business.

We are building a functional nutrition startup in the GCC and are looking for a marketing co-founder.

Someone entrepreneurial, commercially sharp, and ready to build a brand from the ground up. If you care about consumer insight, brand building, and measurable growth and want real ownership from day one, this might be for you.

About Us

We are launching a next-generation functional drinks platform focused on the GCC region.

Our ambition is to build a distinctive, consumer-led brand rooted in:

  • Bold product innovation

  • Clear and differentiated positioning

  • Community-driven, content-led growth

We are backed by experienced food and beverage investors and operators, including FoodLabs.

What You’ll Do

Mission: Build the most relevant functional beverage brand in the GCC and turn it into a scalable growth engine.

You will build and lead the brand from day one.

  • Develop the marketing strategy and set clear growth priorities

  • Own performance marketing and track the metrics that matter

  • Build and manage our content and community channels

  • Establish strong partnerships with creators, brands, and events

  • Hire and lead the marketing team as we scale

In short: You own brand and growth as well as strategy and execution.

Who You Are

Must-have:

  • Strong Entrepreneurial mindset with high ownership

  • Expertise in digital marketing, social media, influencer strategy, and content-driven growth

  • Data-driven, commercially minded, and comfortable owning a P&L view on marketing

  • Fluent in English and Arabic

Nice to have:

  • Marketing leadership experience in FMCG, or D2C consumer brands

  • Experience building or scaling brands from early stage

What You Get

  • True co-founder status with high ownership and decision-making responsibility

  • Backing from experienced investors and access to strong F&B networks

  • The opportunity to build a regional consumer brand from zero

FoodLabs

About FoodLabs

FoodLabs is a globally active Early Stage VC investor and venture studio, assisting the bold in building iconic companies committed to planetary and human health. Founded in 2016 by Christophe F. Maire, FoodLabs has built and invested in more than 80 early-stage companies, including the most seminal, fastest-growing European startups such as Infinite Roots, Formo, Meatable, and Klim.

In the FoodLabs Studio, the team identifies new opportunities to tackle the biggest challenges of our time, along with the most daring entrepreneurs and scientists who have what it takes to empower the transformation. Based in Berlin and supporting entrepreneurs globally, FoodLabs is focusing on solutions across consumer, food supply chains and infrastructure, health, agriculture, livestock farming, climate, and synthetic biology.

🚀Join us in building a better tomorrow:

https://jobs.atlanticlabsfoodlabsplatform.com

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Berlin, DE
Year Founded
2016
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