Founding role · Confidential
The way we gather is broken. Modern culture trades presence for digital sedation, and nightlife makes good health the price of admission. We're building the successor to the bar — a new kind of third space, designed from first principles for how people want to gather today. Doors open in New York City this winter, and the model is built to scale nationally.
Our current co-founder holds vision, brand, community, and capital. We're looking for the complement: a founder-level operator to build and run the company alongside them — with real equity and a real seat at the table.
Strategy is genuinely shared. You'll have a real voice in what this becomes, not just how it runs.
Fundraising, recruiting, brand and creative, and management of marketing and programming.
You've launched a concept from 0 to 1. Scaling it beyond location one is a strong plus, not a gate.
You come from experiential, high-touch hospitality — one or more of:
The calibration: the experience we're building is closer to a great boutique hotel than a nightclub — guests known on arrival, preferences remembered, luxury feel, proactive service.
What decides it: a holistic hospitality experience (strategy and development, not just operating), strategic thinking, entrepreneurial ownership, and a network of operators you'd hire.
Hands-on by design. This is a be-in-the-building role through opening.
Equity-motivated. This is a founder package — competitive cash base, and total compensation supported by meaningful equity ownership. If the equity story doesn't excite you more than the salary, this isn't your seat.
We're artists and serial entrepreneurs — builders of creative & nightlife communities, wellness brands, and tech companies. We've spent our careers pushing culture forward, and this is our biggest swing yet.
We're backed by founders of some of the most influential technology companies of the past two decades, alongside one of the most followed voices in health.
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