Product CEO / Venture Studio Director - St Louis

Human Agency; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative venture studio in Missouri is seeking an entrepreneurial leader who can build and operate their own venture. This role merges the responsibilities of a CEO and product leader, demanding sales ability and experience in integrating AI into business strategies. Candidates should be comfortable with ambiguity and possess a strong drive to create and iterate on unique business models. This role emphasizes leadership in studio meetings and accountability across multiple ventures.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a founder, CEO, or product leader who shipped real products.
• Ability to sell ideas to partners, customers, or investors.
• Experience building with AI technology.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate your own venture from zero to one within the studio.
• Set the framework for how ventures are evaluated, funded, and scaled.
• Run weekly studio meetings and be accountable across ventures.
• Sell and promote the vision to partners and investors.
• Use AI as the foundation in everything built.

Skills

Entrepreneurial mindset

Sales ability

AI integration

Leadership

Comfort with ambiguity

Job description

The Opportunity

You are an entrepreneur. That's the ground-level truth. We're hiring someone who is mostly going to be building and running their own venture within Human Agency's studio — and who also sets the rules for how ventures flow across the entire studio. You run the weekly studio meetings. You are the lead critique. You own the accountability. You convince us that something is working or tell us it's not.

This is a CEO and product person rolled into one, with sales ability. If you've seen Every's venture studio model — that's the profile. Former CEO. Product-obsessed. Builder. Not a bureaucrat who likes to "run the thing." A person who likes to build the thing.

What You'll Own

• Build and operate your own venture from zero to one within the Human Agency studio
• Set the framework and cadence for how ventures are evaluated, funded, and scaled across the studio
• Run weekly studio syncs — you are the point of accountability across all active ventures
• Sell. Whether it's selling the vision to partners, customers, or investors — you close.
• Deploy AI and agents as core infrastructure in everything you build — not as a feature, as the foundation

Who You Are

• Proven experience as a founder, CEO, or product leader who shipped real products
• Sales DNA — you can get in a room and move people
• AI-native builder — you've built with AI, not just used it. Show us.
• Comfort with ambiguity at every level — from "what should we build?" to "this thing is on fire"
• Zero interest in process for process's sake. You build. You ship. You iterate.

Equal Opportunity Commitment

Human Agency is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diverse perspectives and are committed to building inclusive, high-performing teams where everyone can do their best work.