Venture Executive running AI-native ventures for Human Agency, which designs and implements secure, human-centered AI strategies. Owning product, customers, revenue, team, and P&L.
Responsibilities
Run one of Human Agency's ventures with full accountability
Own product direction, customer acquisition, operations, revenue, and P&L
Ship AI-native products using AI as a foundational capability
Find customers, close deals, deliver value, and build a repeatable growth engine
Hire and lead a small, high-performing team as the venture scales
Make strategic pivots, discontinue ineffective ideas, and scale successful ones
Regularly report progress, learnings, challenges, and pivots to studio leadership
Collaborate with Human Agency's studio resources, AI tooling, network, and capital
Requirements
Experience running a startup, product line, business unit, or revenue-generating venture with ownership of outcomes
Product and sales instincts; ability to build products customers want and convince them to pay
AI-native approach and experience building with AI tools
Experience managing a P&L or accountability for financial performance
Understanding of unit economics and burn rate
Demonstrated proof of work through things built, shipped, sold, or grown
Self-managing and self-directing
Ability to make quick decisions with incomplete information and learn from mistakes
Ownership mindset and ability to solve problems independently
Comfort with autonomy and accountability
Intellectual honesty about performance and ability to adapt based on data
Commitment to meaningful products, missions, and people served
Benefits
Performance-based incentives
Potential equity participation in the venture you build
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