VP, Business Development & Growth

vcfo; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

vcfo is creating a new leadership role to drive business development across its markets. You will run the proven playbook, expand revenue, and guide a team of Market Directors and Practice Managers.

The role reports to the CEO and blends personal selling with team leadership to achieve growth targets. You will coach leaders across regions, refine the go-to-market strategy, and build strategic partnerships with bankers, CPA firms, and PE professionals while maintaining vcfo’s culture of

Qualifications

• 15+ years in executive, consulting, or professional services leadership.
• Strategic thinker who runs playbooks and adapts strategies.
• Proven revenue growth through relationship-based sales to C-suite.
• Experience leading business development across multiple offices.
• Experience coaching non-salespeople who carry BD responsibility.
• Accountability for results beyond personal production.
• Strong understanding of middle-market challenges.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, influencing skills.
• Integrity, servant leadership, collaboration, candor, and accountability.
• CPA, MBA, or other advanced credential preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CEO to set annual sales targets and go-to-market priorities.
• Develop and execute growth strategies to expand revenue and market presence.
• Lead and close select strategic opportunities at CEO/founder/investor level.
• Build and maintain vcfo’s referral partner relationships.
• Directly manage the Business Development function and mentor leaders.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Relationship sales

Communication

Influencing

Accountability

Integrity

Coaching

Cross-office leadership

Networking

Education

CPA

MBA

Job description

Location: Austin, Dallas, or Houston preferred; Denver considered (vcfo is headquartered in Austin)

Reports To: Chief Executive Officer

Travel: Up to 20%

About vcfo

For 30 years, vcfo has helped growing companies access senior-level finance, accounting, and HR expertise without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire. Headquartered in Austin, with teams in Dallas, Houston, and Denver, vcfo’s roughly 60 finance, accounting, and HR professionals currently support close to 250 client engagements — companies typically between $10M and $100M in revenue, often without a CFO of their own, and usually navigating a real period of growth: new funding, new locations, or an acquisition.

vcfo’s model is built on flexibility and depth: clients pay hourly, with no long-term contract, and gain access to a deep bench of experienced professionals rather than a single hire. That same depth defines vcfo’s own team — the firm is built on people who stay and grow with it, not a rotating cast of contractors.

The Opportunity

vcfo is creating a new leadership role to run and grow its business development function — reporting directly to the CEO, and taking ownership of a business development approach that already works. The role has two parts: run the playbook and ensure adherence to it, and develop new strategies as markets and opportunities dictate. The fundamentals are sound, so the work starts with improving execution and existing processes rather than building from scratch, and grows into shaping strategy over time.

You will directly manage a Business Development professional, and will guide and hold accountable three Practice Managers and four Market Directors who own business development within their own markets — a team vcfo expects to grow. None of them report to you directly, and the people you’ll be developing are experienced finance, accounting, and HR professionals who also carry business development responsibility — not career salespeople. Success here looks like collaborative leadership and influence, not command-and-control management.

You will be accountable for the firm’s growth results — both new business and expansion within existing client accounts — rather than a personal production target. You’ll also do some personal selling, leading select strategic opportunities, especially at the CEO, founder, and investor level, but most of the firm’s growth will come through the team.

How Success Is Measured

This is a full-time leadership role, not a responsibility layered onto something else. In year one, expect roughly three months to ramp into the role, followed by about six months where real, measurable impact on growth is expected.

Performance is measured against vcfo’s annual growth plan — specific targets are set and reviewed directly with the CEO and aren’t published here — but broadly, this role is evaluated on:

• Achievement of the firm’s annual revenue growth target, measured however vcfo currently tracks it — bookings, billings, or cash collected.
• Expansion growth within existing client accounts, alongside new business.
• Pipeline health — qualified pipeline sustained at the coverage level needed to hit target.
• Conversion-rate performance against the qualified pipeline.
• Adoption of, and adherence to, the sales process across Practice Managers and Market Directors.
• Growth delivered against the specific markets or business lines prioritized in the annual plan.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with the CEO to set annual sales targets and go-to-market priorities, and to adjust them as markets change. Changes to targets and priorities are made together with the CEO.
• Develop and execute growth strategies that expand revenue and market presence — running the proven playbook today, and developing new strategies as markets and opportunities dictate.
• Drive vcfo’s Ideal Client Profile (ICP) strategy and overall market growth approach.
• Partner with Market Directors and Practice Managers to accelerate growth across regions and service lines.
• Identify emerging opportunities in market trends, and bring well-reasoned proposals to the CEO.

Executive Business Development

• Personally lead and close select strategic opportunities, especially at the CEO, founder, and investor level, while staying accountable primarily for the firm’s results.
• Meet with CEOs, founders, boards, investors, and senior executives.
• Listen deeply to business challenges and identify where vcfo can help.
• Lead conversations that establish trust and long-term relationships.

Business Development Leadership

• Own pipeline health — build and maintain a healthy pipeline with a sufficient volume of qualified opportunities, and review and prioritize pipeline across the team.
• Own expansion targets within existing client accounts, and identify opportunities to grow existing client relationships — tracked separately from new business where it makes sense.
• Set expectations for, and monitor adherence to, the sales process, including timely response to inbound leads.
• Own forecasting and conversion-ratio performance against target, including personal participation in sales meetings with prospects where it can influence conversion.
• Run internal meetings:
  • Bi-weekly pipeline reviews
  • Weekly business-development marketing calls, run in an L10 format
  • Weekly 1:1s with Practice Managers
  • Bi-weekly meetings with Market Directors

Growth Culture & Team Development

• Directly manage vcfo’s Business Development professional.
• Coach and mentor Practice Managers, Market Directors, and leaders throughout the firm on business development best practices and activity.
• Improve the sales process, pipeline management, and opportunity conversion.
• Make role, coaching, and performance-plan decisions for staff who report to you, and review business development performance to goal by product line, market, and individual.
• Decide when someone should move out of business development activities.
• Collaborate closely with marketing, operations, and leadership teams.
• Serve as a visible champion for growth across the organization.

Strategic Relationships & Referral Partners

• Build and maintain vcfo’s referral partner relationships — commercial bankers, CPA firms, attorneys, private equity professionals, investment bankers, business consultants, executive recruiters, and other influential business partners.
• Create and strengthen partnerships that generate high-quality client opportunities.
• Lead Partner Pitch Days and strategic networking efforts.
• Represent vcfo in the business community and professional organizations, at market events and associations, and through a LinkedIn presence.
• Support thought leadership initiatives and speaking opportunities, and identify sponsorship and community engagement opportunities.
• Grow visibility of the vcfo brand across its markets.

Client & Deal Support

• Determine when a deal requires subject-matter-expert involvement.
• Support contract negotiation, and approve exceptions on pricing, terms, and standard agreement language within guidelines set by leadership.
• Partner on budget development for the business development function.

What We’re Looking For

• 15+ years of executive, consulting, professional services, or business leadership experience — for example, as a former CEO, CFO, or COO with a strong business development background, or as a professional services partner or rainmaker.
• A strategic thinker who can run a proven playbook and develop new strategies as markets and opportunities change.
• A proven record of generating revenue through relationship-based business development, including selling professional services to the C-suite.
• Experience leading business development through people who don’t report to you, across multiple offices, locations, or business units.
• Experience coaching non-salespeople who carry business development responsibility.
• Accountability for a number beyond your own production, with ownership of conversion, not just pipeline.
• A strong understanding of middle‑market business challenges.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and influencing skills.
• Integrity, servant leadership, collaboration and candor, and accountability in how you work with clients and colleagues.

Preferred

• CPA, MBA, or other advanced credential.
• An established network in banking, private equity, accounting, legal, or advisory services.

Why Join vcfo

• Genuine ownership — a newly created role with the mandate to run, refine, and grow a business development approach that already works, and to shape strategy as markets change.
• A collaborative, non‑corporate culture built on people who stay for the long term.
• Direct access to, and partnership with, the CEO.