Non-Technical Founder

Remote Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity stake

Salary/stipend potential

Job summary

Remote Jobs seeks a founder to lead the development and growth of a venture—collaborating with Mindsets Ventures to validate, build, commercialize, and scale the startup. You will own product vision, strategy, and roadmap, while driving customer validation and early market traction.

You will also lead fundraising efforts, partnerships, and team hiring, with equity-based compensation and potential salary/stipend depending on contributions and milestones.

Qualifications

• Experience translating vision into product strategy and roadmap.
• Proven ability to raise capital or secure investor interest.
• Strong user research and market validation skills.

Responsibilities

• Define product vision and roadmap, with wireframes and prototypes.
• Translate vision into technical requirements and manage MVPs.
• Validate market need through user interviews and feedback.
• Drive partnerships, early customers, and business development.
• Pitch investors and manage stakeholder relationships.

Skills

Product leadership

Fundraising

Market research

Strategic planning

Team leadership

Job description

Location: Flexible / Remote

As a founder, you will lead the development and growth of the venture. You will work closely with Mindsets Ventures team to validate, build, commercialize and scale the venture.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Vision & Strategy: Defining the \"why\" and \"what\" of the product, creating wireframes and prototypes, and setting the product roadmap.
• Project Management & Communication: Translating product vision into technical requirements, reviewing MVPs, and managing product development.
• Customer Validation & Market Research: Conducting user interviews to validate the problem, ensuring the product solves a real market need.
• Business Development & Sales: Forging partnerships, identifying market opportunities, and driving early customer acquisition.
• Fundraising & Investor Relations: Pitching to investors, managing stakeholder relationships, and securing funding.
• Team Building & Hiring: Recruiting, hiring, and managing technical talent or outsourcing agencies to build the product.
• Other Founder Responsibilities: Any other responsibility required from a non-technical founder to build the startup such as being the face of the brand, sales, marketing, growth hacking, attending events, etc.

Founder Profile

• Has strong understanding of the industry considered in the target market.
• Is experienced as an ex-founder in raising capital and leading the strategic and operational execution of a new venture from early validation to scale.
• Thrives in uncertain, fast-paced environments and able to operate lean and pivot quickly based on new insights or market feedback.
• Is able to lead product development, either by driving the process directly or by onboarding a capable technical co-founder.
• Demonstrates strong communication and interview skills, with a wide network in the industry considered and understands how to build trust and relationships with stakeholders.

Founder Benefits

The selected co-founder will join the venture as an equity partner alongside Mindsets Ventures, with the potential for a salary or stipend. The specific deal structure will be customized based on each founder’s contribution, expertise, and level of commitment, and will include milestone-based incentives to reward progress and impact.