The Solo Founders Podcast is four months old and moving fast. In that time, it has crossed 12,000 YouTube subscribers, generated 250,000 YouTube views and 1.8 million views across platforms, and hosted founders behind Browserbase, WorkOS, Chatbase, and more.
The show is more than a content channel. Guests have gone on to become LPs in our fund and join AMA dinners with Solo Founders portfolio founders. The right episode can start a relationship that matters far beyond the view count.
We're looking for someone to grow the show with Ari now, own podcast operations by the end of September, and help run content operations across Solo Founders.
The podcast is the anchor of this role, not the whole of it. You'll also support the broader content operation: short-form clips, YouTube, social, newsletter, and launches across the Solo Founders brand.
This starts part time and can be remote or in person in San Francisco. We care more about your taste, momentum, and evidence of making things than a conventional media résumé.
What you'll do
Own the podcast's weekly operating cadence: keep the guest pipeline, research, prep, production, publishing, and follow-through moving without dropped threads.
Run content ops beyond the show: support the wider Solo Founders content engine across clips, social, newsletter, and launches so the whole system ships on time.
Find the angle and sell the idea: identify the moments people need to hear, then turn them into sharp hooks, titles, clips, and episode packaging.
Build the distribution engine: grow YouTube and every relevant short-form channel through consistent shipping, smart repurposing, and fast experiments.
Use AI as leverage: prototype better systems for research, guest prep, post-production, repurposing, and reporting instead of accepting the default workflow.
Close the learning loop: read the numbers, study what traveled and why, and turn every episode into a better brief for the next one.
Turn media into relationships: help connect standout guests and ideas to the broader Solo Founders community, fund, AMAs, and dinners.
Who you are
- You're an infovore on startups and technology. You already know which companies, builders, and ideas are worth paying attention to.
- You've published things of your own: video, audio, writing, a newsletter, or a project with a point of view.
- You have strong opinions about media in tech today, and you can explain what you would do differently.
- You love experimenting and building with AI, not just talking about it.
- You can move between creative judgment and operational rigor. The hook matters, and so does the calendar.
- You write clearly, follow up quickly, and can turn a loose idea into something shipped.
This is the job for you if…
- You want a front-row seat to early-stage startups, venture, and the people building in San Francisco.
- You're interested in the media angle: how a good story earns attention and how an idea gets sold without flattening it.
- You want real ownership and are excited to grow into running the whole system, not one narrow piece of it.
…and not for you if
- You only want to handle post-production after someone else makes every editorial decision.
- You need a perfectly scoped brief before you can start.
- You chase vanity metrics at the expense of taste, trust, or the guest relationship.
What we're looking for
Published work with a point of view: show us what you've made and the judgment behind it. Audience size matters less than the quality of the decisions.
Editorial taste: you can spot the one minute inside an hour-long conversation that people will send to a friend.
An operator's follow-through: you can run a recurring pipeline, communicate clearly, and keep quality high as the volume grows.
AI-native curiosity: you build lightweight tools, prompts, and automations when they make the work faster or better.
What happens next
Show us the work: we review your published piece and short test clip before scheduling calls.
Get the full context: shortlisted applicants receive a concise walkthrough of the role, then meet Ari to compare taste, ambition, and working style.
Start in the work: begin part time with real scope, build the working rhythm, and take on more of the system as you prove you can own it.
Where this role goes
You'll work directly with Ari and progressively take over the guest, production, publishing, and distribution systems.
The goal is clear: own podcast operations by the end of September. From there, the role grows with you: the podcast is one part of a larger content operation, and the person who builds this engine can end up running much more of it.
How to apply
No formal cover letter. Send us:
- 1.A link to something you've published or built. Show us how you think and package ideas.
- 2.A link to a 45–90 second vertical clip from any recent Solo Founders episode. Include the hook or title you'd ship and 3–5 sentences on why you chose that moment. Timebox this to 90 minutes. We will not publish your test without asking first.
- 3.A short note on what most tech podcasts get wrong today, plus one experiment you'd run on ours.
- 4.Your LinkedIn, X, or resume, where you're based, and your weekly availability.
Send it to ari@solofounders.com
