Investor - Open Core Ventures

The role

You will identify and research promising open source projects and build investment cases. You will launch these companies as interim CEO to drive early growth.

What you will do

• Source and evaluate open source projects for commercial potential
• Identify and recruit CTO candidates from maintainer and core contributor bases
• Launch companies as interim CEO
• Define the initial product roadmap
• Ship the first version
• Land early customers or design partners
• Run GTM until the company has real traction

Required qualifications

• 0-1 product managers, product-obsessed founders, or product-centric operators
• Operated in high-velocity environments
• Founder mentality from being a founder, early employee, or in another 0-1 role
• Written code or shipped software
• Strong grasp of engineering concepts and software architecture
• Relentlessly curious
• Bias toward action

Nice to have

• Experience at a top-tier software company

Benefits

• Direct equity ownership: receive 1% equity in multiple companies you incubate, vesting over 9 months

About the company

Open Core Ventures (OCV) was started by GitLab co-founder Sid Sijbrandij to accelerate opportunities in commercial open source software. They recruit founders and help them reach escape velocity by starting companies around promising open source projects.