Founder-in-Residence, Finance Workflow Automation
Harmony Venture Labs is a Birmingham-based venture studio that builds and launches valuable companies with real-world impact. We bring together product thinkers, operators, and domain experts to turn validated opportunities into high-scale startups. We’re hiring a Founder-in-Residence for a new AI-powered workflow automation venture supporting small-to-midsize finance teams. HVL has already completed deep discovery, problem validation, prototyping, and early go-to-market experiments. You’ll take this foundation and scale it into a real company — accelerating traction, refining the product, driving revenue signals, and preparing the venture for launch. This is a hands-on, zero-to-one builder role where you inherit meaningful early insights and momentum, then expand them with speed, focus, and conviction.
What You'll Do
- ●Build deep context on the problem space, customer pain points, and validation insights developed to date.
- ●Step into active customer conversations — outreach, interviews, demos, and follow-ups — to accelerate early traction.
- ●Guide the prototype from “validated direction” to “market-ready,” identifying the highest-value improvements and shaping the product roadmap.
- ●Design and run early GTM experiments across messaging, pricing, onboarding, activation, and distribution.
- ●Convert early signals into pipeline momentum and first paying users.
- ●Shape the narrative and materials needed for early fundraising and market positioning.
- ●Establish patterns, processes, and directional clarity that future hires can build on.
- ●Prioritize relentlessly, focusing on the milestone that moves the venture meaningfully forward each week.
- ●Lay the groundwork for a future founding team by documenting learnings, processes, and insights.
Who You Are
- ●A repeat founder or early-stage operator who has built something from zero before — ideally in SaaS or workflow automation.
- ●Skilled at taking early validation and turning it into traction, revenue signals, and launch readiness.
- ●Strong in one early-stage discipline (product, engineering, GTM, sales, or growth) and capable of operating cross-functionally across the rest.
- ●Eager to build within an AI-first environment and experiment with emerging technologies that eliminate manual workflows.
- ●Experienced in finance operations, accounting systems, back-office software, or similar domains is a bonus — but not required.
- ●Thrives in ambiguity, moves with urgency, and adjusts quickly as new information emerges.
- ●Resilient, gritty, and accountable — you create momentum even when the path is unclear.
- ●Low-ego and highly collaborative. You believe in learning fast, working directly with customers, and iterating your way to clarity.
- ●Naturally builds relationships, establishes trust, and communicates clearly with customers, partners, and early investors.
- ●Based in Birmingham, AL, or open to frequent travel to collaborate closely with the studio team.
What We Offer
- ●A true founder role with early validation, insights, prototype direction, and GTM groundwork already in place.
- ●Hands-on support from HVL’s product, research, engineering, and GTM experts to accelerate the 0→1 journey.
- ●Monthly stipend during pre-launch.
- ●Upon company launch, this role converts into a co-founder position with equity, early users, and pre-seed momentum.
Our Values
We default to action.
We move quickly from insight to execution, turning ideas into tested solutions without waiting for perfect conditions.
We act with humility.
We check our egos at the door, valuing collaboration, feedback, and the opportunity to learn from every voice.
We are curious.
We ask bold questions, explore deeply, and continuously seek to understand markets, users, and what drives real impact.
We are results-oriented.
We focus on outcomes that matter—validation, traction, and value creation—not just effort or activity.
Ready to build something meaningful?
If this role sounds like you, we'd love to hear your story.
Apply for Founder-in-ResidenceHarmony Venture Labs provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past, present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States (military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.