About the Role
Department: Gitwit
Location: Bentonville, AR
This role is a senior, full‑time position that will serve as the local operating partner for Gitwit’s Bentonville Studio, deeply embedded with the Tulsa studio.
What You’ll Do
As Operating Partner, Bentonville Studio, you will lead discovery, shape product strategy, guide Builders‑in‑Residence, and ensure the Bentonville Studio operates as a true extension of Gitwit’s Tulsa‑based venture studio.
- 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
Discovery is not a research phase that ends in a report; it is how we decide what should exist. We get close enough to customers, users, workflows, and business goals to understand where the real pain is, then turn that understanding into product strategy.
We move ideas through the chain: customer signal → business pain → AI opportunity → product concept → 4‑delta experience → MVP test → venture decision. The best opportunities create a clear delta between the old way and the new way.
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 may be a product strategist, discovery leader, ex‑founder, early‑stage operator, venture studio builder, or hands‑on innovation consultant. You’ve personally led ambiguous 0‑to‑1 work where there was no obvious answer yet, and you can see where a workflow is broken, where economics matter, where AI changes what is possible, and where the first product wedge should be.
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
This is a senior, full‑time role with competitive compensation, meaningful long‑term upside, and the support of a full venture studio team.
Benefits include:
- 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
- 401(k) 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
This is a full‑time, Bentonville‑based role. You 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.
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