Co-Founder / CPO

A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

401(k)

Job summary

A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is seeking a Co-Founder to lead product and growth as GM, owning the end-to-end ship-and-scale cycle. This role is equity-backed and foundational, not a typical fundraising-focused position.

Based in NYC with hybrid work for the right candidate, you will build a world-class team across engineering, design, and ML, drive GTM, and define the product-led growth flywheel to achieve rapid, sustainable momentum.

Qualifications

• 0-to-1 PMF achievement and proven ability to ship quickly.
• Founder mindset with consumer product experience.
• Technical background across engineering, design, or IC.
• Distribution-first mindset with strong conviction but low ego.

Responsibilities

• Own the product half of the business and drive growth.
• Define ICP and value prop, build product-led growth loop.
• Recruit and lead a high-caliber product team including engineering, design, ML.
• Own engineering velocity, design bar, and AI product architecture.
• Lead the Series A narrative through product performance.

Skills

Product leadership

Growth strategy

Team recruitment

Cross-functional collaboration

Ship fast

Job description

THE ROLE

A real Co-Founder seat: true ownership, and a team that holds taste, speed, and culture as the bar. You’re the GM across all things product and growth, and the driving force behind everything that ships and scales. You won’t be chasing industry relationships or fundraising every six months – we’ve got that covered. You focus on building a world class team and the next big thing. That’s the mandate.

IS THIS YOU?

A fearless leader obsessed with momentum. You've got the 0-to-1 PMF cheat codes. You take messy, half-formed ideas, distill the signal, ignore the noise, and ship – fast.

• You love music! Fluent one way or another: theory, DAW, decks, or deep listening.
• You’re a Founder. You’ve built a 0-to-1 consumer product to scale (not a feature inside a giant).
• You’re technical. You came up via engineering, design, or as an IC.
• Distribution-first. You don't build and hope. You solve distribution before you code.
• Low ego, high conviction. You'll tell the CEO “nah, you’re wrong,” and then ship the right thing.
• Founder-mode. We expect you to help set the pace.

YOUR MISSION

Own the product half of the business. One mission: build something people can’t put down:

• 100K+ retentive MAU within 6-months. Establish product-market fit and drive real growth.
• Define ICP and value prop, build the product-led growth loop, own GTM and launches end-to-end.
• Build the org. Recruit and lead a high-caliber product team – engineering, design, ML. A-players only.
• Own the craft. Engineering velocity, design bar, and AI product architecture.
• Own the Series A narrative - the product should raise the round on its own.

COMPENSATION

meaningful equity. $200K+ cash. Full‑time in NYC, hybrid for the right candidate. Full benefits + 401K.