AI-Native Category CEO

Aonic • San Francisco, CA

11d • $140,000 - $200,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Aonic is building Aonic Club, an online, AI-native membership offering elevated everyday products at cost, starting with functional nutrition. The company makes products itself and uses AI agents for sourcing, content, forecasting, and service to reduce retail and marketing costs for members.

The AI-Native Category CEO works directly with the CEO on high-impact problems across operations, growth, and finance. The role turns ambiguous, high-stakes problems into structured analysis, decisions, and execution, often by building AI-powered systems and workflows. The successful candidate will own a substantial responsibility and an entire product category or department, building it from the ground up and owning its strategy, execution, and results. The role is broad and demanding, offering significant responsibility, ownership, and exposure.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of work experience, typically 3 to 8 years, at a leading company, with a strong track record of career progression.
• Degree from a top-tier university in engineering, science, math, business, or a related field.
• Candidates with a business background must have taught themselves at least basic coding and demonstrate technical fluency.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools, automation platforms, and low-code solutions to drive real outcomes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability, with comfort working across operations, growth, and finance.
• Genuine interest in solving real-world business problems, including physical operations such as production, supply chain, warehousing, delivery, and customer experience.
• High ambition and active interest in taking on responsibility and steep growth.
• Strong work ethic and intensity, and comfort with a schedule of 8 a.m.–7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Friday.
• Ability to operate with practical judgment, prioritization, commercial intuition, clear communication, and cross-functional collaboration without ego.
• High agency, including seeing problems, taking ownership, and executing without waiting.

Nice To Haves

• Love of creating content and interest in authentic storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of an entire department or product category and build it from the ground up, owning strategy, execution, and results end-to-end.
• Support and improve day-to-day operations across fulfillment, customer experience, supply chain coordination, and internal workflows.
• Identify operational bottlenecks and inefficiencies and design AI-driven solutions to address them.
• Own operational projects end-to-end, from problem definition through execution.
• Use AI to scan markets for products and ingredients and develop a prioritized pipeline of sourcing opportunities.
• Build automated supplier discovery and outreach workflows to identify, qualify, and engage suppliers.
• Design AI-assisted negotiation workflows for pricing, minimum order quantities, and terms, and take deals from first contact to signed agreement.
• Support growth initiatives across marketing, experimentation, and performance tracking.
• Build AI-assisted workflows for reporting, analysis, and execution, and translate growth objectives into operational and financial implications.
• Support financial analysis, forecasting, and unit economics.
• Build and maintain models, dashboards, and AI-powered reporting tools.
• Help leadership make decisions using contribution margin and underlying economics rather than vanity metrics.
• Use AI, automation, and low-code tools to improve execution speed and quality across functions.
• Build internal tools, scripts, and workflows that reduce manual work, and identify opportunities to replace effort with systems.
• Tackle high-priority, ad hoc projects directly with the CEO, moving between strategy and execution as business needs require.
• Own problems that do not come with instructions.

Benefits

• Substantial equity, with compensation described as targeting seven-figure annual compensation through upside.
• Direct, side-by-side exposure to the CEO and real company-shaping decisions.
• Learning and development through rapid learning velocity and exposure.
• Early ownership of an entire department or product category.
• Opportunity to work with a small, highly driven team in a no-bureaucracy environment.
• Access to AI and automation tools.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level