Own Up

Chief Growth Officer

Series C
Financial Services
$49M+
Link Ventures, Brand Foundry Ventures, Listen, Techstars Ventures, Alumni Ventures

STAGE
INDUSTRY
FUNDING
INVESTORS

TIME TO INTRO HIRE
35 DAYS

TIME TO FILL
65 DAYS

THE PROBLEM

As a disruptor in the mortgage marketplace, Own Up needed a top-tier Chief Growth Officer with customer acquisition competency in this unique product category. The ideal candidate needed experience in scaling 3-5x growth and building out a high functioning growth team while the company was keen on increasing the diversity of its team with this hire.

BACKGROUND

Own Up provides a software solution that enables residential lending from various lenders

PLENTY’S SOLUTION

Using our intricate competency mapping and recruiting strategy, Plenty identified a target pool of candidates that precisely matched Own Up’s niche requirements. Plenty was able to source a diverse pool of candidates and, in only 65 days successfully recruited an underrepresented candidate Own Up’s Board described as “transformational”.

JUN WU
Ecolab | State Farm

Jun started his career in engineering and brings a data-driven, analytical to his financial work today. While at Ecolab, he grew his team to 10+ direct reports within content, direct search, email marketing, bringing in $X00MM new digital revenue.