{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"7895833dea6720f9b4d7ca91","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/7895833dea6720f9b4d7ca91","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/7895833dea6720f9b4d7ca91","title":"Operating Partner","description":"Description\n\nGitwit is launching its Bentonville Studio to help develop the next generation of product-minded builders for AI-native companies.\n\nAI is changing what small teams can build, how quickly they can build it, and which kinds of work can become software for the first time. Capital, ideas, and engineering talent matter. But they are not enough. The scarce skill now is knowing which problems are worth building around and how to turn messy customer reality into a product people actually want.\n\nThat kind of builder is hard to find. And it cannot be developed from the sidelines.\n\nYou do not become this kind of builder by studying startup theory, attending panels, or watching companies get built from a distance. You become this kind of builder by being inside the work: sitting with customers, seeing the mess of real workflows, finding the signal, shaping product strategy, testing assumptions, working with engineers, and watching an idea either earn its way forward or die.\n\nThe work is the program.\n\nGitwit’s Tulsa-based venture studio already does this every day: discovery, product strategy, design, engineering, brand, go-to-market, customer validation, and company formation, working together inside one studio system. We start with customer pain, pressure-test ideas with users and buyers, build prototypes, stop work on ideas that do not show enough signal, and concentrate energy around the opportunities that show demand, technical possibility, and the potential to become durable companies.\n\nNow we are extending that model into Bentonville.\n\nThis is not a satellite office someone has to figure out alone. Bentonville will be tightly connected to Gitwit’s Tulsa studio and supported by the full team: discovery, product strategy, design, engineering, brand, recruiting, operations, and venture leadership.\n\nAnd it starts with live venture work from day one. With a Gitwit venture already locating in Bentonville, local builders will not be learning from theory. They will be learning inside product work, operating needs, and company-building momentum.\n\nAt the center of the Bentonville Studio will be a Builder-in-Residence program: roughly six full-time Builders in Residence developing inside live venture work over the next 18 months.\nThese are high-potential product, technical, and operator builders who will learn by participating in discovery, product strategy, prototyping, validation, venture support, and the day-to-day craft of building AI-native companies.\n\nAs Operating Partner, Bentonville Studio, you will help turn this model into a working Bentonville presence: running discovery, shaping product strategy, helping Builders in Residence learn through the work, connecting closely with the Tulsa studio, and helping builders, operators, engineers, founders, and design partners understand where they can plug in.\n\nBentonville and Northwest Arkansas sit inside a rare concentration of business complexity, operational expertise, customer access, and ambitious people.\n\nThat matters because the next generation of AI-native companies will not come from generic software ideas. They will come from a deep understanding of workflows: the messy, expensive, repetitive, high-friction work inside industries where AI can create a step-change improvement.\n\nThe Bentonville Studio is designed to turn that regional potential into a working path into AI venture creation backed by Gitwit’s experienced venture studio team in Tulsa.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\nYou will be the local operating partner for Bentonville, deeply embedded with the Tulsa studio.\n\nYou will lead work locally while drawing on the full Gitwit team: bringing Tulsa partners into the right conversations, translating local discovery into studio-ready product direction, helping active ventures plug into Bentonville, and making sure the Bentonville Studio develops as an authentic extension of Gitwit rather than a disconnected outpost.\n\nYou will have meaningful local ownership, while major venture, investment, and hiring decisions stay integrated with Gitwit’s Tulsa studio leadership.\n\nGitwit has a full recruiting team. You are not being hired to run recruiting.\n\nYour role is different: make the work visible, credible, and useful in Bentonville; help builders understand how they can plug in; notice strong product, founder, and builder signal when you see it; and help the recruiting team and studio leadership understand where that talent could fit.\n\nYou will:\nLead hands-on 0-to-1 discovery with customers, users, buyers, operators, and design partners.\nTurn raw field signal into insight, product strategy, and venture direction.\nShape product concepts that create a meaningful delta between the old way and the new way.\nDefine the wedge, the magic moment, the riskiest assumptions, and the first MVP tests.\nHelp shape the Builder-in-Residence experience with Gitwit’s studio leadership, venture teams, and recruiting team.\nHelp Builders in Residence learn by participating in discovery, product strategy, prototyping, validation, and venture-building work.\nCreate operating rhythms that connect Bentonville tightly with Gitwit’s Tulsa studio leadership and full venture team.\nPull the right Tulsa expertise into the right moments: product strategy, design, engineering, brand, recruiting, operations, or venture leadership.\nCreate repeatable artifacts: insight briefs, product concept decks, hypothesis maps, experiment plans, prototype briefs, and handoff materials.\nCoach emerging builders on how Gitwit works: curiosity, low ego, sharp synthesis, fast learning, and evidence over opinion.\nAt Gitwit, discovery is not a research phase that ends in a report.\n\nDiscovery is how we decide what should exist.\n\nThat means getting close enough to customers, users, workflows, and business goals to understand where the real pain is, then turning that understanding into product strategy.\n\nYou will help move ideas through the chain:\n\ncustomer signal business pain AI opportunity product concept 4-delta experience MVP test venture decision\n\nThe best opportunities do not move forward because they sound interesting. They move forward because they create a clear delta between the old way and the new way.\n\nA 4-delta experience is not a modest improvement. It is the moment a customer feels the new way is obviously better than the old way. The old way should start to feel unnecessarily hard.\n\nThis role needs someone who can help find that delta, sharpen it, and translate it into the next product test.\n\nThat is the heart of product strategy at Gitwit: not managing a roadmap, but discovering what should exist, and proving whether it deserves to move forward.\n\nThe Talent Mission\n\nThe Bentonville Studio exists to develop more product-minded builders for the age of AI.\n\nBut talent development here will not look like a class or classroom-style training program. It will look like the work.\n\nA Builder-in-Residence sits in on customer discovery and learns how to listen for signal. A product thinker helps turn messy field notes into a sharper concept. An engineer understands the customer pain before writing code. A future founder sees how an idea earns its way forward or gets stopped. A local operator learns what it takes to move from insight to venture momentum.\n\nThe goal is not simply to fill roles. The goal is to create a working environment where serious local builders can see the work, join the work, learn the work, and eventually found, grow, and lead companies in Northwest Arkansas.\n\nIn your first six months, you will help turn the Bentonville Studio from an idea into a working extension of Gitwit’s venture studio.\n\nYou will:\nEstablish a tight working rhythm between Bentonville and the Tulsa studio team.\nSupport live venture work already located in Bentonville.\nHelp launch and shape the Builder-in-Residence program as a real learning-by-doing environment.\nLead discovery and product strategy efforts tied to customer and business problems.\nCreate repeatable artifacts that help builders learn how Gitwit works: insight briefs, product concepts, prototype plans, and experiment summaries.\nBuild trusted relationships with local builders, operators, product thinkers, engineers, founders, and design partners.\nHelp Gitwit’s recruiting team and studio leadership recognize strong local talent and understand how they could plug into the work.\nMake the Bentonville Studio feel active, useful, rigorous, connected, and worth joining.\n\nWho You Are\n\nYou may be a product strategist, discovery leader, ex-founder, early-stage operator, venture studio builder, or hands-on innovation consultant.\n\nYour background matters less than your reps.\n\nYou have personally led ambiguous 0-to-1 work where there was no obvious answer yet. You have talked to customers, found signal in messy conversations, shaped product direction, tested assumptions, and helped teams decide what to build next.\n\nYou understand customers and business goals. You can see where a workflow is broken, where the economics matter, where AI changes what is possible, and where the first product wedge should be.\n\nYou are credible because you can do the work. You are also the kind of person who makes the work more compelling to others. When you explain what you found, people lean in. Builders want to help. Engineers understand why the problem matters. Partners see the opportunity.\n\nYou are not just polished. You have substance.\n\nProven experience leading 0-to-1 discovery, product strategy, venture exploration, or early-stage product development.\nA strong ability to synthesize raw research into clear product direction.\nThe judgment to distinguish interesting insights from venture-worthy opportunities.\nThe ability to concept products that create a step-change experience for customers.\nComfort working with engineers, designers, founders, operators, business stakeholders, and customers.\nStrong storytelling skills grounded in evidence, not hype.\nThe ability to build trust with people quickly.\nA low-ego, high-curiosity working style.\nStrong operating discipline: you create rhythm, clarity, artifacts, and follow-through.\nComfort with ambiguity, fast learning, and changing course when reality teaches you something.\nInterest in developing local builders through real work, not abstract instruction.\nWillingness to be deeply present in Bentonville and tightly connected to the Tulsa studio team.\nWhat This Is Not\n\nThis is not an events role, a recruiter role, a startup-program administration role, or a local-booster job. It is also not a pure research role where insights get handed off to someone else.\n\nWe need an operator who can lead through the work: discovery, product strategy, storytelling, builder development, and venture momentum.\n\nCompensation & Benefits\n\nThis is a senior, full-time role with competitive compensation, meaningful long-term upside, and the support of a full venture studio team.\n\nBenefits include:\nCompetitive base salary, targeted around $160,000–$185,000, depending on experience and fit\nMeaningful long-term upside/equity\nRelocation support as needed\n8 weeks per year of PTO\nExcellent health, vision, and dental insurance, with 99% of employee premiums paid by Gitwit\n401k with 4% match\nLife insurance\nPaid parental leave\nCell phone reimbursement\nWeekly team lunches\nFlexible, high-trust work environment\nCasual work attire\nClose collaboration with experienced entrepreneurs, researchers, product strategists, designers, engineers, and venture builders\nThe chance to help launch a new Bentonville presence while being backed by Gitwit’s full Tulsa-based venture studio\nThis is a full-time, Bentonville-based role.\n\nYou will work closely with Gitwit’s Tulsa studio leadership and should expect meaningful time in Tulsa during onboarding, plus regular ongoing collaboration between Bentonville and Tulsa.\n\nNo generic cover letter.\n\nShow us how you think.\n\nTell us about one 0-to-1 product, venture, or discovery effort you personally helped shape.\n\nWe want to know:\nWhat was the customer or business problem?\nHow did you find the signal?\nWhat product direction came out of it?\nWhat did you test or build next?\nWhat changed because of your work?\nWhat was the old way, what was the new way, and what made the new way meaningfully better?\nMake us believe you can turn messy reality into product momentum.\n\nAbout Gitwit\nGitwit is a venture studio that finds problems worth solving, validates them rigorously, and builds AI-native companies from the ground up. We invest early, build cross-functionally, and work to create ventures that earn real traction, not just good stories.\n\nA big part of that comes from working closely with design partners who give us deep access to real workflows, urgent pain points, and early market truth. That helps us find better opportunities and build ventures with stronger validation and traction, faster.\n\nWe are on pace to launch 15+ ventures in the next four years.\n\nThat is how we turn insight into products, and products into companies.","company":"Gitwit","rawCompany":"gitwit","city":"Bentonville","state":"AR","isRemote":false,"isActive":true,"createdAt":"2026-07-11T11:00:34.733Z","occupations":[{"code":"13-1199.00","title":"Business Operations Specialists, All Other","slug":"business-operations-specialists-all-other"},{"code":"11-1021.00","title":"General and Operations Managers","slug":"general-and-operations-managers"},{"code":"15-1299.00","title":"Computer Occupations, All Other","slug":"computer-occupations-all-other"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Operating Partner","description":"Description\n\nGitwit is launching its Bentonville Studio to help develop the next generation of product-minded builders for AI-native companies.\n\nAI is changing what small teams can build, how quickly they can build it, and which kinds of work can become software for the first time. Capital, ideas, and engineering talent matter. But they are not enough. The scarce skill now is knowing which problems are worth building around and how to turn messy customer reality into a product people actually want.\n\nThat kind of builder is hard to find. And it cannot be developed from the sidelines.\n\nYou do not become this kind of builder by studying startup theory, attending panels, or watching companies get built from a distance. You become this kind of builder by being inside the work: sitting with customers, seeing the mess of real workflows, finding the signal, shaping product strategy, testing assumptions, working with engineers, and watching an idea either earn its way forward or die.\n\nThe work is the program.\n\nGitwit’s Tulsa-based venture studio already does this every day: discovery, product strategy, design, engineering, brand, go-to-market, customer validation, and company formation, working together inside one studio system. We start with customer pain, pressure-test ideas with users and buyers, build prototypes, stop work on ideas that do not show enough signal, and concentrate energy around the opportunities that show demand, technical possibility, and the potential to become durable companies.\n\nNow we are extending that model into Bentonville.\n\nThis is not a satellite office someone has to figure out alone. Bentonville will be tightly connected to Gitwit’s Tulsa studio and supported by the full team: discovery, product strategy, design, engineering, brand, recruiting, operations, and venture leadership.\n\nAnd it starts with live venture work from day one. With a Gitwit venture already locating in Bentonville, local builders will not be learning from theory. They will be learning inside product work, operating needs, and company-building momentum.\n\nAt the center of the Bentonville Studio will be a Builder-in-Residence program: roughly six full-time Builders in Residence developing inside live venture work over the next 18 months.\nThese are high-potential product, technical, and operator builders who will learn by participating in discovery, product strategy, prototyping, validation, venture support, and the day-to-day craft of building AI-native companies.\n\nAs Operating Partner, Bentonville Studio, you will help turn this model into a working Bentonville presence: running discovery, shaping product strategy, helping Builders in Residence learn through the work, connecting closely with the Tulsa studio, and helping builders, operators, engineers, founders, and design partners understand where they can plug in.\n\nBentonville and Northwest Arkansas sit inside a rare concentration of business complexity, operational expertise, customer access, and ambitious people.\n\nThat matters because the next generation of AI-native companies will not come from generic software ideas. They will come from a deep understanding of workflows: the messy, expensive, repetitive, high-friction work inside industries where AI can create a step-change improvement.\n\nThe Bentonville Studio is designed to turn that regional potential into a working path into AI venture creation backed by Gitwit’s experienced venture studio team in Tulsa.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\nYou will be the local operating partner for Bentonville, deeply embedded with the Tulsa studio.\n\nYou will lead work locally while drawing on the full Gitwit team: bringing Tulsa partners into the right conversations, translating local discovery into studio-ready product direction, helping active ventures plug into Bentonville, and making sure the Bentonville Studio develops as an authentic extension of Gitwit rather than a disconnected outpost.\n\nYou will have meaningful local ownership, while major venture, investment, and hiring decisions stay integrated with Gitwit’s Tulsa studio leadership.\n\nGitwit has a full recruiting team. You are not being hired to run recruiting.\n\nYour role is different: make the work visible, credible, and useful in Bentonville; help builders understand how they can plug in; notice strong product, founder, and builder signal when you see it; and help the recruiting team and studio leadership understand where that talent could fit.\n\nYou will:\nLead hands-on 0-to-1 discovery with customers, users, buyers, operators, and design partners.\nTurn raw field signal into insight, product strategy, and venture direction.\nShape product concepts that create a meaningful delta between the old way and the new way.\nDefine the wedge, the magic moment, the riskiest assumptions, and the first MVP tests.\nHelp shape the Builder-in-Residence experience with Gitwit’s studio leadership, venture teams, and recruiting team.\nHelp Builders in Residence learn by participating in discovery, product strategy, prototyping, validation, and venture-building work.\nCreate operating rhythms that connect Bentonville tightly with Gitwit’s Tulsa studio leadership and full venture team.\nPull the right Tulsa expertise into the right moments: product strategy, design, engineering, brand, recruiting, operations, or venture leadership.\nCreate repeatable artifacts: insight briefs, product concept decks, hypothesis maps, experiment plans, prototype briefs, and handoff materials.\nCoach emerging builders on how Gitwit works: curiosity, low ego, sharp synthesis, fast learning, and evidence over opinion.\nAt Gitwit, discovery is not a research phase that ends in a report.\n\nDiscovery is how we decide what should exist.\n\nThat means getting close enough to customers, users, workflows, and business goals to understand where the real pain is, then turning that understanding into product strategy.\n\nYou will help move ideas through the chain:\n\ncustomer signal business pain AI opportunity product concept 4-delta experience MVP test venture decision\n\nThe best opportunities do not move forward because they sound interesting. They move forward because they create a clear delta between the old way and the new way.\n\nA 4-delta experience is not a modest improvement. It is the moment a customer feels the new way is obviously better than the old way. The old way should start to feel unnecessarily hard.\n\nThis role needs someone who can help find that delta, sharpen it, and translate it into the next product test.\n\nThat is the heart of product strategy at Gitwit: not managing a roadmap, but discovering what should exist, and proving whether it deserves to move forward.\n\nThe Talent Mission\n\nThe Bentonville Studio exists to develop more product-minded builders for the age of AI.\n\nBut talent development here will not look like a class or classroom-style training program. It will look like the work.\n\nA Builder-in-Residence sits in on customer discovery and learns how to listen for signal. A product thinker helps turn messy field notes into a sharper concept. An engineer understands the customer pain before writing code. A future founder sees how an idea earns its way forward or gets stopped. A local operator learns what it takes to move from insight to venture momentum.\n\nThe goal is not simply to fill roles. The goal is to create a working environment where serious local builders can see the work, join the work, learn the work, and eventually found, grow, and lead companies in Northwest Arkansas.\n\nIn your first six months, you will help turn the Bentonville Studio from an idea into a working extension of Gitwit’s venture studio.\n\nYou will:\nEstablish a tight working rhythm between Bentonville and the Tulsa studio team.\nSupport live venture work already located in Bentonville.\nHelp launch and shape the Builder-in-Residence program as a real learning-by-doing environment.\nLead discovery and product strategy efforts tied to customer and business problems.\nCreate repeatable artifacts that help builders learn how Gitwit works: insight briefs, product concepts, prototype plans, and experiment summaries.\nBuild trusted relationships with local builders, operators, product thinkers, engineers, founders, and design partners.\nHelp Gitwit’s recruiting team and studio leadership recognize strong local talent and understand how they could plug into the work.\nMake the Bentonville Studio feel active, useful, rigorous, connected, and worth joining.\n\nWho You Are\n\nYou may be a product strategist, discovery leader, ex-founder, early-stage operator, venture studio builder, or hands-on innovation consultant.\n\nYour background matters less than your reps.\n\nYou have personally led ambiguous 0-to-1 work where there was no obvious answer yet. You have talked to customers, found signal in messy conversations, shaped product direction, tested assumptions, and helped teams decide what to build next.\n\nYou understand customers and business goals. You can see where a workflow is broken, where the economics matter, where AI changes what is possible, and where the first product wedge should be.\n\nYou are credible because you can do the work. You are also the kind of person who makes the work more compelling to others. When you explain what you found, people lean in. Builders want to help. Engineers understand why the problem matters. Partners see the opportunity.\n\nYou are not just polished. You have substance.\n\nProven experience leading 0-to-1 discovery, product strategy, venture exploration, or early-stage product development.\nA strong ability to synthesize raw research into clear product direction.\nThe judgment to distinguish interesting insights from venture-worthy opportunities.\nThe ability to concept products that create a step-change experience for customers.\nComfort working with engineers, designers, founders, operators, business stakeholders, and customers.\nStrong storytelling skills grounded in evidence, not hype.\nThe ability to build trust with people quickly.\nA low-ego, high-curiosity working style.\nStrong operating discipline: you create rhythm, clarity, artifacts, and follow-through.\nComfort with ambiguity, fast learning, and changing course when reality teaches you something.\nInterest in developing local builders through real work, not abstract instruction.\nWillingness to be deeply present in Bentonville and tightly connected to the Tulsa studio team.\nWhat This Is Not\n\nThis is not an events role, a recruiter role, a startup-program administration role, or a local-booster job. It is also not a pure research role where insights get handed off to someone else.\n\nWe need an operator who can lead through the work: discovery, product strategy, storytelling, builder development, and venture momentum.\n\nCompensation & Benefits\n\nThis is a senior, full-time role with competitive compensation, meaningful long-term upside, and the support of a full venture studio team.\n\nBenefits include:\nCompetitive base salary, targeted around $160,000–$185,000, depending on experience and fit\nMeaningful long-term upside/equity\nRelocation support as needed\n8 weeks per year of PTO\nExcellent health, vision, and dental insurance, with 99% of employee premiums paid by Gitwit\n401k with 4% match\nLife insurance\nPaid parental leave\nCell phone reimbursement\nWeekly team lunches\nFlexible, high-trust work environment\nCasual work attire\nClose collaboration with experienced entrepreneurs, researchers, product strategists, designers, engineers, and venture builders\nThe chance to help launch a new Bentonville presence while being backed by Gitwit’s full Tulsa-based venture studio\nThis is a full-time, Bentonville-based role.\n\nYou will work closely with Gitwit’s Tulsa studio leadership and should expect meaningful time in Tulsa during onboarding, plus regular ongoing collaboration between Bentonville and Tulsa.\n\nNo generic cover letter.\n\nShow us how you think.\n\nTell us about one 0-to-1 product, venture, or discovery effort you personally helped shape.\n\nWe want to know:\nWhat was the customer or business problem?\nHow did you find the signal?\nWhat product direction came out of it?\nWhat did you test or build next?\nWhat changed because of your work?\nWhat was the old way, what was the new way, and what made the new way meaningfully better?\nMake us believe you can turn messy reality into product momentum.\n\nAbout Gitwit\nGitwit is a venture studio that finds problems worth solving, validates them rigorously, and builds AI-native companies from the ground up. We invest early, build cross-functionally, and work to create ventures that earn real traction, not just good stories.\n\nA big part of that comes from working closely with design partners who give us deep access to real workflows, urgent pain points, and early market truth. That helps us find better opportunities and build ventures with stronger validation and traction, faster.\n\nWe are on pace to launch 15+ ventures in the next four years.\n\nThat is how we turn insight into products, and products into companies.","datePosted":"2026-07-11T11:00:34.733Z","dateModified":"2026-07-11T11:00:34.733Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Gitwit","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Bentonville","addressRegion":"AR","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"7895833dea6720f9b4d7ca91"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/7895833dea6720f9b4d7ca91"}}