About the role
We're building in AI-native social and party games: short-session, multiplayer titles for groups of friends playing together in person or over video. It's a category where the winners are decided by taste and timing rather than budget, and we think there are several more of these to be built. We're looking for an Entrepreneur in Residence to build the next one.
What they're looking for
- You've founded a company, shipped an indie title, or led a 0-to-1 product from blank page to live users
- Demonstrated ability to build something playable yourself or with a very small team
- Fluency with generative AI in a production pipeline — as a design material, not a talking point
- Genuine taste in social and party games, and a defensible point of view on why most of them don't stick
- Comfort with ambiguity, short runways, and public failure
More about this role
Variance Ventures is a venture studio. We don't write checks and wait — we build companies from the inside, supplying capital, operating infrastructure, and a founding team so that operators can spend their time on the product instead of the scaffolding.
We're building in AI-native social and party games: short-session, multiplayer titles for groups of friends playing together in person or over video. It's a category where the winners are decided by taste and timing rather than budget, and we think there are several more of these to be built.
We're looking for an Entrepreneur in Residence to build the next one.
You'll join Variance to conceive, prototype, and launch a new game or product line, with the studio's capital, tooling, distribution relationships, and playtest network behind you — and real ownership of what you make.
The first 90 days are for exploration: build, test, and kill ideas fast. From there, we commit resources to the concept that's working and you lead it, as founder and CEO of the resulting company or as GM of the product line.
This is deliberately structured as an equity-forward role. The cash is modest and the ownership is not. If you'd rather have a large...
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