Software Platform - Sales and Marketing Lead

We are looking for a commercial leader to build FuturePro’s go-to-market from the ground up: find the first hundred customers, learn what makes them buy and stay, and turn that into a repeatable engine. You will own pipeline, revenue, positioning, and brand for an AI platform aimed at busy top managers. This is a founding-team seat with a clear path to lead the commercial organization as the venture scales.

About Wilson Growth Partners LLC

Wilson Growth Partners LLC (WGP) is a strategic advisory firm based in upstate South Carolina that works at the intersection of management consulting and AI-enabled product development. We help leadership teams in industrial, healthcare, technology, and private-equity-backed companies improve their strategic position and operating performance across five service lines: Business & Corporate Strategy, Functional Excellence, Organization & Implementation, Strategic Insights, and Business Intelligence.

Our model is “market-aware strategic support”: a core team of action-oriented consultants, a wider network of specialists, and a bias toward work that gets implemented rather than filed. FuturePro by WGP is the natural next step in that mission, turning the management practices we deploy with clients into software that any leadership team can run.

About FuturePro by WGP

FuturePro by WGP (futurepro-ai.com) is an AI-enabled strategy-to-execution and personal-productivity platform for enterprises of all sizes. It gives leaders a single place to set strategy, deploy it through the organization, and run the daily work, with six connected streams (Customer & Revenue, Product, Strategy & Finance, Operations & Growth, People & Talent, and Personal Productivity) feeding one dashboard.

At the center is Porter, an AI advisor that carries company context across every app on the platform, linking a pipeline deal to the strategy phase it serves and the hire it will require. Underpinning each AI call across the platform is a growing context base that feeds each AI function, creating a platform that gets more useful as it learns a company’s business. Security and privacy are foundational, with org-level data isolation, no model training on customer content, and SOC 2 Type II in progress.

FuturePro by WGP is a new venture inside WGP’s Special Initiatives group. It supports WGP’s overall client mission and runs at startup pace: small team, short cycles, visible results, and goals that reset upward as each one is met.

Our vision is to be the strategic platform for mid-market organizations transforming how they execute, embedding AI into their operational fabric so they outperform competitors who outspend them.

Our mission is to help executives develop and deploy strategy faster and at lower cost by combining deep consulting expertise with proprietary AI capabilities, delivering large-firm rigor without the large-firm price tag or timeline.

What You Will Do

• Own FuturePro’s revenue plan and deliver it: set the targets, build the pipeline, run the deals, and close them, personally at first and through a team as milestones unlock headcount.

• Define and sharpen positioning, messaging, and packaging for an AI management platform, working with the Product Management Lead so what we say and what we ship stay in lockstep.

• Design the go-to-market motion. Decide the mix of direct sales, product-led growth, partnerships, and WGP’s own consulting relationships, and prove which channels convert at what cost.

• Build the demand engine: content, campaigns, events, webinars, and community that reach general managers and senior executives, with AI tools doing the heavy lifting on production and analysis.

• Stand up the commercial stack (CRM, marketing automation, analytics, sales enablement) and the operating cadence around it, so pipeline, conversion, and retention are visible every week.

• Capture voice-of-customer from every conversation and feed it back into the product roadmap and pricing, so the platform earns renewals and expansion, not just first sales.

• Set and hit successive quarterly goals (qualified pipeline, new ARR, CAC payback, net revenue retention) that gate the venture’s next phase.

What You Bring

• 5 years across B2B sales and marketing, including at least 3 years leading a commercial function for a SaaS or enterprise software product; experience as an early commercial hire at a startup is strongly preferred.

• A record of building pipeline and revenue from a small base and of selling to senior executives and general managers, with the numbers to show for it.

• Hands-on fluency with AI tools for business leadership and marketing execution (for example, AI-assisted prospecting and research, content generation, campaign analytics, CRM automation, and agent-based workflows). You should be able to run a lean, high-output commercial function with AI as a force multiplier.

• Working familiarity with how AI software is built and evaluated, enough to demo the platform credibly, answer buyer questions about models, data, and security, and collaborate closely with product and engineering.

• Strategic depth. You understand how a leadership team sets and deploys strategy, so you can speak to our buyers in their own language and sell outcomes, not features.

• Strong writing and presentation skills. Much of FuturePro’s brand will be built in your words.

• Distinctive educational background. BS or BA in accounting, finance, or business; or the grit to prove to us it doesn't matter.

• An entrepreneurial mindset: you set goals, achieve them, and set the next one, and you are energized rather than drained by the uncertainty of a series-funded startup environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience selling to or alongside management consultancies, or selling strategy, planning, or productivity software.

• Experience with product-led growth, self-serve onboarding, and usage-based or seat-based pricing models.

• Existing relationships with executives in industrial, healthcare, technology, or private-equity-backed companies.

How We Work

• Startup pace inside an established firm. You get the speed and ownership of an early-stage company with the client access, credibility, and financial discipline of a working consultancy.

• In person in the Spartanburg, SC area. We build together in person several days a week and work remotely the rest. Candidates relocating to upstate South Carolina are welcome.

• AI-native by default. We use AI tools for coding, analysis, writing, research, and decision support every day, and we expect leaders to do the same and to raise the bar for the team.

• Successive goals, not a static plan. Each milestone unlocks the next phase of funding and scope. Leaders here set the goal, hit it, and set the next one.

Compensation

This is a build-stage role, and the compensation is structured to match. Starting compensation is a competitive base salary plus milestone-based bonuses tied to the venture’s goals, with the opportunity to earn equity as FuturePro develops and takes on outside funding. Benefits include health coverage, paid time off, and flexible hybrid work.

• Base salary: $120,000 , depending on experience and demonstrated results.

• Variable compensation: target of 20–50% of base, paid against defined pipeline, revenue, and retention milestones.

• Equity: eligibility for an equity grant as the venture is formally capitalized, with the size reflecting founding-team contribution.

Why Now

If you have built a go-to-market from zero, you know how much faster it moves when AI handles the grind. If you have sold to leaders who run a business, you know what earns their trust. We are looking for someone who has done both. Apply with your resume and a short note on a market you opened and how you did it.