Chief Product Officer

A Co-Founder seat. Full ownership of the product at a generational swing in music-tech.

THE COMPANY

The next great music platform won’t look like Spotify or Ableton. That’s the bet.

A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a “music (software) label” – we release playful music products built on a core belief: music is a verb – something you do, not passively stream. We're on a mission to pull people into a deeper relationship with music, and we're building the next great consumer music app to do it.

Small but mighty team of creative technologists, assembled by Máuhan M Zonoozy (ex-Head of Innovation at Spotify, 2x exits), and backed by investors who actually get it – NFX, Mantis, Quiet Capital, Collaborative Fund, Gold House, BoxGroup, SV Angel, RRE, and others. $9M+ raised.

THE ROLE

A real Co-Founder seat: true ownership, and a team that holds taste, speed, and culture as the bar. You’re the GM across all things product and growth – the big boss of everything that ships and scales. Your whole focus is building a product people share unprompted. You won’t be chasing industry relationships or fundraising every six months – we’ve got that covered. You build the next big thing.

IS THIS YOU?

A fearless leader obsessed with momentum. You've got the 0-to-1 PMF cheat codes. You take messy, half-formed ideas, distill the signal, ignore the noise, and ship – fast.

• You love music! Fluent one way or another: theory, DAW, decks, or deep listening.
• You’re a Founder. You’ve built a 0-to-1 consumer product to scale (not a feature inside a giant).
• You’re technical. You came up via engineering, design, or as an IC.
• Distribution-first. You don't build and hope. You solve distribution before you code.
• Low ego, high conviction. You'll tell the CEO “nah, you’re wrong,” and then ship the right thing.
• Founder-mode. This is a mission, not a job. We expect you to help set the pace.

YOUR MISSION

Own the product half of the business. One mission: build something people can’t put down:

• 100K retentive MAU within 6-months. Establish product-market fit and drive real growth.
• Define ICP and value prop, build the product-led growth loop, own GTM and launches end-to-end.
• Build the org. Recruit and lead a high-caliber product team – engineering, design, ML. A-players only.
• Own the craft. Engineering velocity, design bar, and AI product architecture.
• Own the Series A narrative. It lives in the product, not in a deck.

COMPENSATION + APPLICATION

Meaningful equity. $200K+ cash. Full-time in NYC, hybrid for the right candidate. Full benefits + 401K.

To apply email [email protected], subject line: Ship or Die. Link us to: (1) a product or startup you built, (2) your LinkedIn, CV, or website, and (3) a playlist with 5 tracks you love.