CEO, Co-Founder

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Define Outpost's category, positioning, initial market entry, and beachhead strategy.

• Collaborate with the CTO to advance the platform from concept to MVP, through pilots, and onto scalable deployments.

• Convert intricate hardware, energy, computing, and AI capabilities into clear value propositions for customers.

• Establish relationships within industrial, logistics, defense, aerospace, and ecosystem sectors.

• Secure design partners, pilot programs, strategic alliances, and generate early revenue.

• Develop and convey Outpost's immediate and long-term corporate narrative.

• Lead upcoming financing rounds, including fundraising narratives, milestones, operational plans, and the investor engagement process.

• Recruit and motivate the founding team while shaping the company culture.

• Oversee strategy, product and commercial prioritization, partnerships, fundraising, operations, and company development.

• Establish systems necessary for scaling the business.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in building, launching, and scaling innovative products that integrate hardware or AI in industrial, manufacturing, robotics, autonomy, energy, computing, or defense sectors.

• Experience in owning a business, product line, market, or significant initiative from strategy through execution, with demonstrable commercial results.

• Relevant experience as a founder, GM, business unit leader, or in early-stage operations is highly desirable.

• Capability to function in a zero-to-one company-building environment: validating the market, identifying the niche, shaping the product, acquiring initial customers, securing capital, and building a foundational team.

• Extensive network among buyers and partners in industrial manufacturing, assembly, warehouse automation, logistics, energy, or related sectors.

• Strong comprehension of energy systems, power management, edge computing, AI, robotics, and autonomy in practical deployments.

• Ability to present a complex technical platform as intuitive, urgent, and worthy of investment.

• Experience with forward-thinking industrial and defense technology firms deploying robotics and ambitious platforms in intricate physical operations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Pre-seed funding has been secured.

• Access to Montauk Capital's resources, network, and expertise in company building.

• Opportunity to influence the product, market, culture, and category during the foundational stages of the company.

• Strong partnership with the CTO and progress on the MVP is already underway.