Operating Partner, Bentonville Studio

Help launch Gitwit’s Bentonville Studio by turning discovery, product strategy, and live venture work into a talent engine for AI company creation.

Why Bentonville, Why Now

What You’ll Do

• Lead hands-on 0-to-1 discovery with customers, users, buyers, operators, and design partners.
• Turn raw field signal into insight, product strategy, and venture direction.
• Shape product concepts that create a meaningful delta between the old way and the new way.
• Define the wedge, the magic moment, the riskiest assumptions, and the first MVP tests.
• Help shape the Builder-in-Residence experience with Gitwit’s studio leadership, venture teams, and recruiting team.
• Help Builders in Residence learn by participating in discovery, product strategy, prototyping, validation, and venture-building work.
• Create operating rhythms that connect Bentonville tightly with Gitwit’s Tulsa studio leadership and full venture team.
• Pull the right Tulsa expertise into the right moments: product strategy, design, engineering, brand, recruiting, operations, or venture leadership.
• Create repeatable artifacts: insight briefs, product concept decks, hypothesis maps, experiment plans, prototype briefs, and handoff materials.
• Coach emerging builders on how Gitwit works: curiosity, low ego, sharp synthesis, fast learning, and evidence over opinion.
  
  

How Discovery Becomes Product Strategy

What Success Looks Like in the First 6 Months

• Establish a tight working rhythm between Bentonville and the Tulsa studio team.
• Support live venture work already located in Bentonville.
• Help launch and shape the Builder-in-Residence program as a real learning-by-doing environment.
• Lead discovery and product strategy efforts tied to customer and business problems.
• Create repeatable artifacts that help builders learn how Gitwit works: insight briefs, product concepts, prototype plans, and experiment summaries.
• Build trusted relationships with local builders, operators, product thinkers, engineers, founders, and design partners.
• Help Gitwit’s recruiting team and studio leadership recognize strong local talent and understand how they could plug into the work.
• Make the Bentonville Studio feel active, useful, rigorous, connected, and worth joining.

Who You Are

You’ll Be Strong If You Have

• Proven experience leading 0-to-1 discovery, product strategy, venture exploration, or early-stage product development.
• A strong ability to synthesize raw research into clear product direction.
• The judgment to distinguish interesting insights from venture-worthy opportunities.
• The ability to concept products that create a step-change experience for customers.
• Comfort working with engineers, designers, founders, operators, business stakeholders, and customers.
• Strong storytelling skills grounded in evidence, not hype.
• The ability to build trust with people quickly.
• A low-ego, high-curiosity working style.
• Strong operating discipline: you create rhythm, clarity, artifacts, and follow-through.
• Comfort with ambiguity, fast learning, and changing course when reality teaches you something.
• Interest in developing local builders through real work, not abstract instruction.
• Willingness to be deeply present in Bentonville and tightly connected to the Tulsa studio team.
  
  

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive base salary, targeted around $160,000–$185,000, depending on experience and fit
• Meaningful long-term upside/equity
• Relocation support as needed
• 8 weeks per year of PTO
• Excellent health, vision, and dental insurance, with 99% of employee premiums paid by Gitwit
• 401k with 4% match
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Weekly team lunches
• Flexible, high-trust work environment
• Casual work attire
• Close collaboration with experienced entrepreneurs, researchers, product strategists, designers, engineers, and venture builders
• The chance to help launch a new Bentonville presence while being backed by Gitwit’s full Tulsa-based venture studio
  
  

Location

How to Apply

• What was the customer or business problem?
• How did you find the signal?
• What product direction came out of it?
• What did you test or build next?
• What changed because of your work?
• What was the old way, what was the new way, and what made the new way meaningfully better?