CEO & Co-Founder, Yask

Build the Company Defining AI for Physical Operations 

The Initial Wedge

Why This Is a Rare Founder Seat

What You’ll Actually Need to Do

• Build your founding team. You will need a world class team of builders, dreamers and operators. This is your chance to construct the team you know can move fast and win.
• Drive customer learning and adoption yourself. You will spend time in the field, run demos, talk with users and decision-makers, and watch how the work actually happens. The early truth cannot be outsourced.
• Shape the product around what changes execution. You will work closely with the founding product and engineering team to decide what gets built, what gets cut, what gets tested next, and what is most likely to improve adoption and performance in the field.
• Turn early usage into referenceable value. The goal is not activity for its own sake. It is real usage, clear proof of value, and evidence strong enough that the next customers can see why Yask matters.
• Make Yask legible to your ICP. You will turn field learning, product behavior, and customer results into a story your ICP can understand and trust.
• Convert the first wedge into the next customers. You will help shape pilots, define success, and turn early customer value into repeatable traction.
• Create the operating rhythm of the company. You will establish how Yask learns, prioritizes, ships, follows up, and decides.
• Own the feedback loops that make the business sharper. You will help define the usage patterns, KPIs, and decision cadences that show where execution is improving, where it is breaking, and what should happen next.
• Stay close to the hard parts long enough to get them right. That includes product tradeoffs, customer pressure, messy field reality, and the moments when the right move is not obvious yet.
  
  

Who Thrives Here

• You like getting close to customers, workflows, and operating conditions instead of managing from a distance.
• You are highly hands-on in the early days and do not need polished structure to create momentum.
• You have real product judgment, not just product enthusiasm.
• You can move between customer learning, product decisions, commercial judgment, and operating discipline without getting stuck in only one mode.
• You know how to keep learning your way toward product-market fit.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity, but not vague about what progress should look like.
• You want real founder ownership, with the upside and responsibility that come with it.
• You see Bentonville as part of the strategic advantage, not a compromise.

What We Offer

• Base salary: $150,000–$175,000
• Founder equity: meaningful founder equity
• Incentives: milestone-based compensation
• Location: full-time, on-site in Bentonville, Arkansas
  
  

Location and Work Style

Additional Benefits

• Relocation support
• Excellent health, vision, and dental
• 401(k) with match
• Generous PTO
• Cell reimbursement, parking stipend
• Weekly team lunches
• Dog-friendly office
• Flexible, high-autonomy culture