Founder in Residence

Accountabilities

• Identify high-potential opportunities within the short-term rental market and assess their potential to become new products, services, or business verticals.
• Conduct customer research and maintain direct conversations with property managers and rental operators to validate problems, needs, and potential solutions.
• Define the venture’s product vision, business strategy, positioning, and go-to-market approach.
• Work closely with engineering, product, design, and AI specialists to rapidly prototype, build, launch, and iterate new solutions.
• Recruit, develop, and lead a multidisciplinary team as the venture progresses from validation to growth.
• Own key business outcomes, including product adoption, customer success, growth, recurring revenue, and financial performance.
• Use customer feedback, market signals, and business data to make decisions, test hypotheses, and continuously refine the venture.
• Communicate progress, opportunities, challenges, and strategic decisions directly to founders and executive leadership.
• Build a scalable business that can ultimately become a dedicated division or potentially operate as an independent company.
• Establish the operating model, culture, priorities, and execution practices required for sustainable growth.

Requirements

• Strong entrepreneurial mindset with a clear bias toward action, experimentation, and measurable outcomes.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to turn ambiguous opportunities into structured plans and executable strategies.
• Strong product and commercial intuition, with an understanding of how customer needs translate into viable products and businesses.
• Comfort operating with significant autonomy and creating structure in environments where priorities and answers are not yet defined.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and leadership capabilities, with the ability to work effectively with customers, executives, technical teams, and business partners.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, inspire, develop, and lead high-performing teams.
• Strong analytical and execution skills, with the ability to use data and customer insights to guide decisions.
• Deep customer orientation and a strong focus on creating products that deliver meaningful value.
• Willingness to operate across product, sales, marketing, operations, and strategy as the venture requires.
• AI-native mindset and enthusiasm for using emerging AI technologies to build products, automate workflows, and accelerate experimentation.
• Previous experience as a startup founder, early-stage employee, product leader, operator, or investor is highly valued.
• Experience in short-term rentals, hospitality, property technology, or related markets is an asset.
• Ability to pursue ambitious goals, work at high speed, and maintain strong ownership through uncertainty.

Benefits

• Opportunity to build and lead a new business venture from the ground up.
• Access to established engineering, AI, product, design, and go-to-market resources.
• Funding and strategic support to validate and scale your ideas.
• Direct access to experienced founders and executive leadership for mentorship and decision support.
• Ability to recruit and build your own multidisciplinary team as the venture grows.
• Significant autonomy over the venture’s strategy, product direction, and execution.
• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.
• Long-term career opportunity to become the General Manager and leader of the business you build.
• Remote work flexibility with the role available across India and multiple international locations.
• Opportunity to work at the intersection of entrepreneurship, AI, and the rapidly evolving short-term rental industry.