Entrepreneur in Residence – Fashion & Luxury AI Venture | BIANCO VENTURES

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential company builder focused on B2B software ventures in the fashion and luxury sector. Our client is launching their first operational venture: an AI-powered platform addressing retail execution and operational intelligence challenges. They're seeking an Entrepreneur in Residence to act as the founding operator of this early-stage venture.

This is not a consultancy role or internal product management position. This is real ownership of a business in formation—from customer discovery to first revenue, from product definition to team building, from go-to-market strategy to preparing for spin-off and seed fundraising.

The Challenge You'll Tackle

In distributed retail organizations with dozens or hundreds of points of sale across different markets, coordination between headquarters and the network remains persistently unsolved by existing technology. Guidelines flow from HQ, but what happens next is often invisible. Real execution quality—how directives become action in individual stores—is measured late, if at all. Data exists but remains fragmented, manual, and unstructured.

The market thesis is developed. The initial value proposition is structured. The problem is real and largely unaddressed by available tools. The product and business model still need validation and construction—which is exactly why we're seeking someone to build it.

What You'll Do in the First 6–9 Months

• Deepen customer discovery by interviewing Retail Directors, Heads of Visual Merchandising, COOs, and other decision-makers to validate the problem and measure willingness to pay
• Refine the value proposition through dialogue with the real market, not internal hypotheses
• Coordinate MVP construction with the technology team, defining product priorities based on field learnings
• Design and manage initial pilots with selected brands, gathering qualitative and quantitative evidence
• Define the commercial model (pricing, segmentation, contract structure) based on data, not generic benchmarks
• Build the initial go-to-market strategy and acquire first paying customers
• Coordinate technology partners, vendors, and dedicated resources
• Define KPIs and milestones, presenting them to stakeholders and potential investors
• Build the initial team around the venture
• Prepare the company for spin-off and seed fundraising

What We're Looking For

Required Background:

We're considering candidates with 5–10 years of experience who have worked in at least one of these areas: early-stage startups, venture building, B2B product management, growth, enterprise SaaS, retail tech, AI, or innovation.

Non-Negotiable Skills:

• Ability to conduct customer discovery in enterprise contexts—listening, synthesizing, and changing direction when data requires it
• Commercial aptitude: presenting solutions to buyers, managing sales cycles, and closing deals
• Ability to work with technology teams without necessarily being technical—knowing what to ask, how to prioritize, how to translate market feedback into product decisions
• Cross-functional leadership in high-ambiguity contexts—operating effectively when answers don't yet exist
• Effective communication with senior stakeholders including brand executives, investors, and institutional partners
• Professional fluency in English

Significant Plus Factors:

• Previous founder experience, even with ventures that didn't scale
• Direct knowledge of fashion, luxury, or retail as an operator, consultant, or solution builder
• Enterprise SaaS sales experience
• Exposure to applied AI, workflow automation, or operational intelligence
• Fundraising experience or managing pilots with large organizations
• Experience in B2B pricing and commercial model structuring

We're not seeking someone who has already done all of this. We're seeking someone who knows how to build from uncertainty, who transforms ambiguity into direction and direction into action.

What Our Client Offers

You won't start from zero. You'll find a developed market thesis, an identified problem, a structured value proposition, and an active ecosystem including:

• Direct and continuous support from the venture building team
• Strategic and go-to-market support from established consulting partners
• Technology development and venture building expertise
• Vertical management competencies in fashion and luxury
• Access to a network of industry stakeholders, prospects, and potential clients
• Dedicated resources for venture construction
• Compensation during the EIR period
• Equity in the company upon spin-off
• Concrete opportunity to become CEO and co-founder of the venture
• Exposure to industry partners, investors, and top executives in fashion and luxury

Economic conditions and equity structure will be discussed during the selection process.

How We Work With You

Our talent team at Get A Job.ai represents this confidential client exclusively for this search. When you apply through our platform, a recruiter will conduct an initial screening to understand your background and assess fit. If there's alignment, we'll submit your profile to the client for consideration. Please do not attempt to contact the client directly, as all applications must come through Get A Job.ai to be considered.

The client requests that in addition to your CV or LinkedIn profile, you include a brief video (maximum 1 minute) addressing:

• What unresolved problem in fashion, luxury, or retail interests you most today and why?
• Share something you've built or validated from scratch
• What would be your first three priorities entering as EIR in an early-stage B2B AI venture?

Pay

Compensation structure and equity details will be discussed during the interview process. The role includes both cash compensation during the EIR period and equity participation upon venture spin-off.

Location: Italy

Get A Job.ai is an equal opportunity recruiter. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.