Entrepreneur in Residence

We’re hiring: Entrepreneur in Residence — New Category | SOLARA
We’re looking for someone to build a new consumer durables category from 0 to 1.
This is a hands-on business ownership role: identify the opportunity, develop the products, bring them to market, and build the operations needed to deliver a great customer experience.
You’ll work directly with the founders and own the category’s growth, profitability, and execution.
What you’ll own
Category strategy: Understand customers, competition, pricing, and market gaps. Define the product range and business plan.
Product and manufacturing: Work with manufacturers and suppliers on specifications, sourcing, costing, quality, compliance, and launch timelines.
Go-to-market: Coordinate positioning, content, marketing, channel launches, and sales execution.
Service operations: Build installation, after-sales service, warranty, spare-parts availability, and escalation processes.
Category P&L: Own revenue, margins, inventory, working capital, and customer experience.
Team building: Identify the people and partners needed, establish clear responsibilities, and build repeatable processes as the category grows.
Who we’re looking for
You’ve helped build a product, category, or business from scratch—and can clearly explain what you personally owned.
You combine commercial judgment with operational discipline. You’re comfortable discussing manufacturing costs, marketing performance, and service issues.
You can turn an ambiguous goal into a practical plan and drive it through to completion.
You’re willing to visit suppliers, speak to customers, troubleshoot launch problems, and get into the details.
Experience in consumer durables, appliances, hardware, or another product business with manufacturing and after-sales complexity would be valuable.
You could be a former founder, an early-stage startup operator, or a category/product leader ready for broader ownership.
What you’ve built matters more than your title.
What success looks like
A differentiated product range launched with dependable manufacturing, a clear route to customers, functioning service operations, and a credible path to profitable growth.
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