Entrepreneur In Residence Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in ad tech, performance marketing, or digital media.
• At least one role as a founder, co-founder, or GM with P&L ownership.
• Track record of taking an ad tech or marketing technology product from zero to meaningful scale, including launch, advertiser adoption, monetization, and growth.
• Experience raising venture capital, securing board or executive funding, or running an internal venture through stage gates.
• Deep knowledge of programmatic buying, mobile user acquisition, measurement and attribution, and privacy-safe use of first-party data.
• Hands-on experience building or scaling an affiliate marketing program, including partner recruitment, commission models, attribution, and fraud controls.
• Ability to take an ad tech product from idea to scale and make fast, evidence-based decisions with limited information.
• Command of ad tech economics, including take rates, CPM, CPA, ROAS, LTV, and CAC, and ability to use them to evaluate opportunities and price products.
• Ability to build and manage affiliate and publisher partnerships that acquire customers profitably, with sound commission design, tracking, and attribution.
• Ability to size markets, assess competitive position, and make clear build, buy, or partner recommendations.
• Ability to communicate venture theses clearly and support them with data for executives, board members, advertisers, and partners.
• Ability to attract early hires and manage advertiser, publisher, and platform partners.

Nice To Haves

• A successful exit.
• Experience building inside a public company.
• Exposure to gaming and app ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Map the ad tech and performance marketing market, including AI-driven bidding and optimization, commerce and retail media, identity and measurement, and affiliate networks, to identify opportunities for FIRY.
• Build and pressure-test a pipeline of ad tech venture theses, size each market, and use data to eliminate weak ideas early.
• Validate promising concepts through advertiser and publisher interviews, prototypes, pilot campaigns, and partner integrations to demonstrate demand, margins, and unit economics.
• Determine how RZR’s platform, Skillz’s first-party data, and FIRY’s distribution could give a new venture a defensible advantage.
• Present investment memos to the executive team and board covering the market, business model, go-to-market strategy, team, milestones, and capital needs.
• Recruit the founding team and secure the advertiser, publisher, data, and platform partners needed to launch.
• Build and scale an affiliate marketing function by recruiting affiliate, publisher, and creator partners; setting commission structures and tracking; and driving customer acquisition at target CAC and ROAS.
• After a venture is approved, lead it as GM or CEO with ownership of its P&L, roadmap, and growth.

Benefits

• 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance for the employee and dependents.
• 401(k) matching.
• Equity incentives.
• Pre-tax benefit options.
• Meditation and mental health resources.
• Physical fitness coaching and classes.
• Family planning assistance.
• Virtual therapy sessions.
• Competitive paid time off and company holidays.
• Free daily catered lunch and snacks at the Las Vegas headquarters.
• Full-size gym with showers at the Las Vegas headquarters.
• Commuter benefits.
• Team events.