Founder in Residence

About the Role

As a Founder in Residence at Base360.ai, you'll have the unique opportunity to build a new product or business vertical within our platform. Your mission is to identify a major opportunity in the short-term rental industry, validate the market, assemble a team, and grow it into a standalone business with significant revenue and impact. Think of it as founding a startup, but with the advantage of existing funding, engineering, design, AI infrastructure, customers, distribution, and executive support.

Responsibilities

• Identify high-potential opportunities in short-term rentals that can become new products or business verticals.
• Validate customer problems through research and direct conversations with property managers and rental operators.
• Define the product vision, strategy, and go-to-market plan.
• Work alongside engineering, product, design, and AI teams to build and launch quickly.
• Recruit and lead your own multidisciplinary team as the venture grows.
• Own growth, product adoption, customer success, and financial performance.
• Make data-driven decisions and iterate rapidly based on customer feedback.
• Present progress directly to the founders and executive team.
• Build a business that could eventually operate as its own division or even become an independent company.

Qualifications

• Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias toward action.
• Exceptional problem-solving ability.
• Strong product and commercial intuition.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and creating structure where none exists.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Ability to recruit, inspire, and lead high-performing teams.
• Highly analytical with strong execution capabilities.
• Obsession with customers and building products people love.
• Comfortable wearing multiple hats across product, sales, marketing, and operations.
• AI-native and excited about building with the latest AI technologies.

Preferred Experience

• Previous startup experience—as a founder, early employee, product leader, operator, or investor—is highly valued but not required.
• Experience in short-term rentals, hospitality, or property technology is a plus.

What Success Looks Like

Within your first 12–24 months, you will have:

• Built and launched a new business vertical serving the short-term rental industry.
• Hired and led your own cross-functional team.
• Achieved strong product-market fit.
• Generated meaningful recurring revenue.
• Established yourself as the long-term General Manager of your venture.

Why Join Base360.ai?

• Be part of an innovative and fast-growing company building the AI operating system for short-term rental businesses.
• Build your own venture with the backing of an experienced founding team.
• Access world-class engineering, AI, product, design, and go-to-market resources.
• Receive funding, mentorship, and strategic support to turn your vision into reality.
• Opportunity to build a team and establish a long-term business within Base360.ai.
• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.
• Significant long-term career growth, with the opportunity to lead an entire business unit.

You Should NOT Apply If

• You are looking for a corporate 9-to-5 job.
• You are political and enjoy gossiping or talking about people behind their backs.
• You are looking for a stable and slow dead-end job.
• You do not aim to be one of the best in the world at what you do.