CEO, AI Expert Network Platform

Product Ventures, Ltd.; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Competitive cash compensation

Remote work in North America

Job summary

Product Ventures, Ltd. is a venture studio building an AI platform that enables investment firms and corporates to run their own expert networks. We are seeking a CEO to take the product from pilots to scale, overseeing strategy, revenue, fundraising, and team growth while operating remotely across North America.

You’ll shape pricing, close the first contracts, and drive a sales motion that can work without warm introductions. Equity and competitive cash are on offer to the right leader.

Qualifications

• Experience selling expert calls or similar B2B services.
• Proven ability to raise rounds and close contracts.
• Experience building a product/AI platform from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Turn pilots into paying clients: set pricing, close first contracts, and craft a scalable sales motion.
• Lead fundraising: take traction to investors and drive the next round.
• Build the team: hire first key members and set the bar for the org.
• Expand beyond funds: win corporate strategy and development projects.

Skills

Network and sales

Product and building

Job description

Remote, North America Backed by Venture Studio Product built, first pilots starting

The company

We're a venture studio, and we've built an AI platform that lets investment firms and corporates run their own expert network. Teams find, engage, and pay the right experts on their own terms.

The product is built and our first PE and VC pilots are about to start. We're all in on it, and we're looking for the CEO to take it from here.

The market

Expert calls used to be a hedge fund tool. Now they're a standard part of how PE funds, consultants, and corporate teams get smart on a market fast. The industry behind them is worth roughly $3 billion a year, and the number of firms buying has more than doubled since 2022.

The problem

For over twenty years, the big expert networks have run the same play, and it costs funds three ways:

• Time. Every search runs on someone else's clock, through a database they own.
• Money. Every hour on the phone carries a premium.
• Quality. The expert is the best match on their list, not the best person for the question.

And when the project wraps, the middleman keeps the relationship, which is the part that actually compounds.

Why now

The old model depended on a huge proprietary database and a big team working the phones. That advantage is fading fast. AI can now find the right expert almost everywhere, reach them directly, and handle the admin that used to take a team.

Our bet

Our bet is that firms should own their expert network, not rent it. Cutting out the middleman improves all three at once: firms move faster, spend less, and get better experts. And the relationships that compound finally stay with the firm.

We funded the build, put world-class builders on it, and we're the first cheque in.

How it works

From the client's seat, the platform turns a rough question into a paid, documented expert engagement, with no middleman in the way.

It starts with a conversation. Our AI helps you shape the brief: the goal, the expertise you need, budget, timeline, and how you want the insight delivered. The brief gets its own page and a link you can share.

Then our AI goes hunting. Our proprietary people search pulls up a pool of relevant experts you can contact right away. Keep the ones you like and run it again with a sharper ask.

Outreach is your call. Our AI can handle it, or we'll hand you a script and a link to your brief so the ask comes from you. Personal asks get more yeses, so we make them easy.

Experts join in under 30 seconds, see the whole brief, and can ask questions before they say yes. Payment runs through the platform, so every engagement is documented and auditable. Compliance teams love that part.

The platform captures the insights from every engagement and keeps them in one place, so nothing you learn walks out the door.

Every project adds to a bench of experts you own, and it gets more valuable with every brief.

The role

From day one, it's yours to run: strategy, revenue, fundraising, and the team. Year one comes down to four jobs, in this order:

• Turn pilots into paying clients. Get our first pilot funds paying, then make them your best references. You'll set pricing, close the first contracts, and build a sales motion that works without a warm intro.
• Raise the next round. Take real traction to investors and lead the raise that funds what comes next. If you've sat on the other side of the table, you know what they'll want to see.
• Build the team. Make the first key hires and set the bar for everyone who follows. Who you hire first decides what the company becomes.
• Expand beyond funds. Corporate strategy and corp dev teams buy expert calls too. Once the fund motion works, that market is yours to open.

Who you are

You've either bought expert calls or sold them. Ideally both.

Maybe you spent years in PE or VC paying premium rates for calls that missed the mark. Maybe you worked at one of the big expert networks and saw exactly where the model cracks. Either way, you know this problem from the inside and already have opinions on how to fix it.

We don't expect one person to have everything. You have a real spike in at least one of these, and if you have both, even better:

• Network and sales. You can sell to funds, and you know how investment teams buy, who signs, and what gets a contract over the line. You have a network to sell into, and by now you're probably running through the first funds you'd call.
• Product and building. You've built something from scratch before, a company or a new business inside a bigger one, and you're itching to do it again. You're fluent in AI products and can shape what gets built next, even if you don't write code.

Whichever side you lead with, you'll be the one closing the first contracts. You can lead a raise, and investors take you seriously from the first meeting. You're based in North America and comfortable running a remote company.

What you get

A running start and a real stake in what you build.

• A working product ready for its first clients, so you can start selling on day one.
• Us in your corner. We've already put real money in, and we have every reason to help you win.
• Meaningful equity and competitive cash. We haven't locked the final structure, and we'd rather shape it with the right person than hand over a template.
• The freedom to work from anywhere in North America.
• A real shot at changing how a big, entrenched industry works.