CEO / Co-founder

Job summary

The CEO will own the product, growth, and distribution strategies for a consumer AI product. They will lead the founding team to transition the company from pre-launch to a funded seed stage.

Job details

Localhost is building a consumer AI product that makes private, local-first intelligence simple and useful. The product combines personal context, local files, memory, reusable skills, and intelligent model routing through a simple UX. We are a team of 6 with 5 engineers that are actively building the product. We are looking for a founder-operator to join the founding team and own product, growth and distribution - serving as CEO. The ideal candidate has launched products from 0 and created measurable user or revenue growth. We value speed, doing over talking, and high agency over conventional executive credentials. This is a serious founder-level role—not consulting, advisory, or fractional work. The company is pre-launch and currently unfunded, and plans to raise seed financing by the end of the year. Meaningful founder equity is available, with cash compensation following financing.

What you’ll do

The CEO will own the product, growth, and distribution strategies for a consumer AI product. They will lead the founding team to transition the company from pre-launch to a funded seed stage.

Requirements

The ideal candidate is a founder-operator with a proven track record of launching products from scratch and driving measurable user or revenue growth. High agency and a bias for action are valued over traditional executive credentials.

Benefits

• Founder Equity

Listed skills

• Product management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Product Management
• Growth Hacking
• Distribution Strategy
• Operational Leadership
• User Acquisition
• Revenue Growth
• Strategic Planning
• Founder Mindset

Job areas

• Management & Leadership
• Software
• Technology
• Marketing
• Sales