Founding
Operator.
We were overwhelmed by the quality of applicants for this opportunity.
Thank you to everyone who applied. We are currently reviewing candidates and are no longer accepting applications for this role.
This opportunity has closed.
It won't be the last.
Dallas, Texas.
Dallas Required.
This role is based in Dallas, Texas.
We believe great companies are built shoulder-to-shoulder — in person, with the founders and venture studio leadership.
If you are not willing to be in Dallas, this role is not the right fit.
This is not a normal role.
And this is not a normal opportunity.
This is not a job inside a finished company. It is an invitation to help turn a validated opportunity into a category-defining company.
We are looking for someone who wants to help build it during the most important stage of its journey.
Most startups hire before they
know what they are building.
This is different.
The market has been studied.
The thesis has been pressure-tested.
Pilot customers have been secured.
Strategic relationships are in motion.
Built alongside founders with more than 60 years of combined experience across real estate, financial services, venture creation, operations, and capital formation.
Backed by 1845 Ventures.
The foundation is in place. What comes next is execution.
The foundation is in place.
What comes next is execution.
Six responsibilities.
One company to build.
Build the company
Translate conviction into customers, systems, and shipped product. The research is done; the roadmap exists.
Talk to the market
Operators, lenders, brokers, GPs, allocators. 30 calls a week, every week, until patterns deepen.
Ship product
Software, a financial vehicle, or paper at first — you are the one who ships it.
Build systems
Hiring, ops, finance, the stack. The plumbing that turns motion into a company.
Support capital and strategy
Model, cap table, runway, pricing. The math has to work and you help make it work.
Earn your seat
Responsibility grows with results. Influence grows with impact.
Read both columns.
Be honest with yourself.
- You've started something before — company, product, team, or a serious side project that earned real revenue.
- You move faster alone than most teams move together.
- You enjoy the part of a startup that other people complain about.
- You can sit in front of a spreadsheet, a customer, and a contract — and feel at home in all three.
- You are willing to be in Dallas, in person, full stop.
- You're looking for a senior IC role inside a stable team.
- You want a defined scope and a manager who unblocks you.
- You want to join after the company is fully built.
- You think "founding" is a title, not a job description.
- You're not willing to relocate.
We're not telling the
world yet.
We're telling you.
The thesis is sharp. The studio is committed. The team at 1845 has done this before — multiple times, with scars to prove it.
What we won't say in public yet: the wedge, the name, the launch timeline. We'll cover all of it on the second call.
For now: assume the work is real, the upside is uncapped, and the bar is the highest one we've ever set for a hire.
Five steps.
No recruiter in the middle.
- 01
Take your shot
Tell us why this company-building opportunity is yours. Loom is optional but encouraged.
- 02
We read everything
Every serious application is reviewed personally — by us, not a recruiter.
- 03
First call
30 minutes with the studio. Thesis, fit, founder pattern.
- 04
Working session
Half a day together. We give you the actual problem and build alongside you.
- 05
Offer & close
Cap table, comp, scope, start date. Then we go.
Every serious application is being reviewed personally.
We're identifying the person who will help build the company.
1845 Ventures doesn't
build one company.
We build companies.
This was the first Founding Operator opportunity.
It won't be the last.
If this role resonated with you, we'd love to stay connected for future portfolio company opportunities.
Join the
Builder List.
1845 Ventures is building multiple companies.
While this Founding Operator search has closed, additional opportunities will be announced as new portfolio companies move from idea to company.
One last thing
Most great companies
are built by people who
had to be there.
If that is you — for this thesis, in this town, with this team — stay close. We'll be back with the next opportunity soon enough.
Most people want a seat.
A few people want to build the table.
We'll be building another one soon.