Co-Founder (CEO) at Waypoint

Location: Milan or Remote

Equity: Significant founding stake

Start date: ASAP

Founders Factory builds and funds startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and the world’s leading companies. Created by IPO-exited founders, we offer founders capital, operational support from a team of hands-on experts, and unrivalled access to a coalition of industry-leading corporate partners. Since 2015, our 300+ portfolio companies have raised $900mm follow-on funding from a roster of notable investors.

Our Studio partners with entrepreneurs at day one, developing new ideas, technologies and business models into high growth companies. We’re now exploring concepts at the intersection of wealth management and technology.

About the Venture

Waypoint is an AI-powered tax platform helping wealth professionals deliver smarter, faster, and more compliant advice to high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs). By automating research, modeling, and reporting, we replace fragmented workflows with a conversational AI co-pilot that enables clarity, compliance, and scale. We’re now assembling a founding team to build the future of AI-native wealth advisory.

About the Role

As CEO, you’ll own vision, traction, and execution. You'll be the voice of the customer, the driver of product-market fit, and the architect of our go-to-market strategy.

You’ll lead conversations with private banks, advisors, and early clients, while shaping the broader strategy and culture of the company.

Our offer

• Co-found a company with Founders Factory’s team of IPO-exited founders and entrepreneurs to develop a new venture

• Access to an expert team through our Venture Studio and 6-month accelerator programme

• Unlock combined cash and hands-on support from our experienced team
• A validated concept and intellectual property
• A dedicated studio budget (including the founder stipend, specialist resource and infrastructure budget)

What we’re looking for:

• Experienced founder or builder capable of operating from zero to one
• Unique market insight, top 1% skills or other advantage that makes you a suitable and compelling founder
• Proven ability to build a world-class team, attract customers and investors
• Evidence of thriving in ambiguous environments and a high aptitude for calculated risks
• A clear vision for the opportunity (including product direction) - with the drive and expertise to execute on it
• Big ambition and conviction to completely reimagine the wealth advisory space
• Deep empathy and motivation to solve customer problems
• High IQ and EQ - strong opinions loosely held

Responsibilities:

• Own the vision and commercial roadmap for Waypoint
• Build and maintain relationships with wealth managers, private banks, and family offices
• Lead customer development and onboarding of early pilot users
• Collaborate with CTO to ensure product meets market needs
• Raise pre-seed/seed investment and lead investor communications
• Represent Waypoint publicly with press, advisors, and partners

Requirements

• Deep experience in wealth management, private banking, or tax advisory for HNWIs
• Strong network in European wealth or financial services ecosystem
• Track record of owning client relationships and closing complex deals
• Strategic thinker with a bias for action
• Passionate about reinventing traditional workflows with AI
• Fluent in Italian