Entrepreneur in Residence, Launch479

What You'll Do: This is the closest thing to running an early-stage company before you actually have one. From Day One, you'll be doing the real work of venture creation — talking to users, pressure-testing the problem, shaping the product, selling early, and figuring out whether what's in front of you deserves to become a company. That includes: Leading customer discovery. Getting in front of real users and design partners. Asking sharper questions than they're used to. Learning what the market actually says, not what you wish it said. Doing first-person market research. Going deep into a problem space. Talking to operators, buyers, and adjacent players until you understand the terrain better than anyone we could hire to brief us on it. Shaping the product. Working closely with engineers, designers, and partners to take a concept from raw idea to working prototype to product in users' hands. Running early sales. Pitching to design partners and prospective customers. Closing them. Learning what makes them say yes, what makes them stall, and what makes them walk. Building the pitch. Sharpening the story to investors, partners, and future hires — the way an early-stage CEO has to. Helping decide what's real. Sitting at the table when we decide whether a concept becomes a feature, a product, or a company — and bringing the conviction (or the cold water) that comes from doing the work. Operating across the full surface area. Like any real early-stage CEO, you'll be jumping between five different functions in a single day. That's the role. You won't have a curriculum. You won't have a structured program. You'll have access to the partners, the engineers, the design partners, and the systems that make Gitwit ventures work — and the expectation that you'll use them.

The Path Forward: This is where this role gets serious. The 6-month fellowship length exists for a reason. It gives you a real shot at the work, and it gives us a real shot at seeing how you lead. The primary outcome we're designing this program for is you becoming the founding CEO of a Gitwit venture. That's the path we want this to take. If the work goes well, the concept earns the right to exist, and the fit is there on both sides, that's how this ends. It's not guaranteed — venture timing, fit, and how the work goes all matter — but it's a real path, and we'll be honest with you about it the whole way. And if the Gitwit venture path doesn't end up being the right move, you'll leave with something rare: months of running the early-stage CEO playbook for real, a portfolio of work and conviction that didn't exist before, and the chops to go start your own company. Either way, you'll be more equipped to lead a venture than the day you walked in. Who We're Looking ForThe strongest candidates for this role will tend to have several of these traits: They have evidence of operating. Maybe they were the founding product manager or first general manager at a startup. Maybe they ran a side venture for years. Maybe they shipped real things as a solopreneur. The form doesn't matter. "I lead the work of making things happen" does. They have an instinct for what should be a company. They can sit with a problem space and find the sharp edges that matter. They know the difference between a feature, a product, and a company. They are voracious learners. They go figure things out. They ramp on new domains fast. They can talk to an industry expert today and pitch the same industry tomorrow. They move well in ambiguity. They don't need every variable resolved before making progress. They create clarity by doing the work. They have taste. They care whether something is sharp, useful, and worth a customer's time and money. They have a point of view about quality. They have founder instinct that hasn't been blunted. Whether they've been at a startup or quietly running things inside a bigger company, they still have the urgency, the ownership reflex, and a bias toward action that the work demands. They want to be in the room. Collaboration, in-person presence, and real proximity to customers, partners, and the team are part of what makes this experience what it is. You don't need a specific resume. But you should be someone who has been operating in the gravitational field of company-building for a while, and is ready to step fully into it.