Hiring · Turtle AI
Co-founder,
Turtle AI.
The platform to manage your agents, optimise AI costs, and trust every output. We are looking for a commercial co-founder to own product and GTM from day zero.
About the company
Turtle AI
Enterprise Productivity · gAI Ventures Portfolio
Turtle AI is an AI operations platform for SMBs and B2B teams. It helps businesses manage their AI agents, optimise inference costs, and build trust in every automated output - the critical layer between AI tooling and enterprise adoption.
turtleai.xyz ↗The Role
Turtle AI is seeking a co-founder at the intersection of product and sales - technically capable of shaping the platform while commercially driven to generate business traction immediately.
This is a ground-floor equity position. You will own the commercial and product trajectory of the company from day one, working alongside the gAI technical team and Turtle AI's founding operator.
The most important thing you will do in the first 90 days is close the first three paying customers. Everything else is secondary.
What You Will Own
Commercial
- Identify high-friction AI adoption pain points across IT, compliance, and operations
- Build pipeline from scratch - prospecting, outreach, demos, and closure
- Define pricing, packaging, and commercial strategy for the platform
- Own the sales process from first call through signed contract
- Build repeatable sales motion and document it for the team that follows
Product
- Convert customer signals into product roadmap decisions with the engineering team
- Own product management and technical strategy for the agent management layer
- Shape the architecture for AI cost optimisation and output trust features
- Define the integration roadmap with enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, HRIS)
Company Building
- Develop strategic partnerships with system integrators and cloud providers
- Build and lead revenue teams as the company scales toward Series A
- Represent Turtle AI at industry events and in customer conversations
What We Are Looking For
Required
- End-to-end product ownership experience - you have shipped platforms, not features
- Deep understanding of APIs, integrations, and system design
- Knowledge of enterprise procurement, security reviews, and compliance workflows
- Ability to discuss architecture with engineers and ROI with a CFO in the same day
- Proven commercial traction in founder-led early-stage environments
- Pipeline-building capability from zero - no warm leads, no SDR team, no excuses
Ideal Background
- AI governance, observability, or AI operations platform experience
- Led GTM at an early-stage B2B AI company through $1M–$5M ARR
- Built partnerships with system integrators or hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Deep network in SMB or mid-market enterprise IT, operations, or compliance
Compensation
Equity-first. Turtle AI is a gAI Ventures portfolio company - the founding operator retains majority ownership. The co-founder seat comes with a meaningful equity stake and a path to market-rate cash compensation as revenue scales.
Capital backing: $50k initial investment from gAI Ventures, with a $200k follow-on once first customers are secured.
Ready to apply?
Send a short note about your background, the customers you think Turtle AI should close first, and why this is the right moment for this company.
Apply - contact@gai.ventures