# Operating Partner, Consumer (Fractional) > Palm Venture Studios · Austin, United States (Hybrid) · — · Posted 2025-12-10 **Workplace:** hybrid **Department:** Palm Ventures / Palm Venture Studios ## Description Location: Austin, TX Type: Fractional / Part-Time (~40 hours/month to start) Reports to: Direct to Managing Partner and Exec Chair; Dotted to Director of Portfolio Success ### **About Palm Venture Studios** Palm Venture Studios provides second-chance capital and hands-on operational support to promising startups. In the past 24 months, we've acquired meaningful interest in 30+ impact-driven companies —from farm-to-fridge grocery to matchmaking and from men’s wellness to solving the medical debt crisis and beyond. Backed by a family office with a remarkable track record (35 companies, 30+ add-ons, 18 exits, 21x ROIC), **we're looking for an Operating Partner to help turn these missions into durable consumer businesses, fast.** ### The Opportunity This is a part-time role for someone who is ready to be all in. We're looking for someone who is eager to help build out an impact-driven studio— **perhaps an exited founder, an active angel, or a serial operator who misses the work but not the grind of doing it alone**. You'll work hands-on with CEOs across the portfolio guiding strategic direction, digging into the details, and serving as a primary mentor and advisor.  Responsibilities: - **Own the operating rhythm** — a structured cadence of virtual CEO group support sessions, 1:1 advisory, portfolio reviews, and hands-on support between meetings, designed in partnership with a top executive coach - Leverage your expertise, your network, and Palm's network to **help founders move through the milestones that matter** in D2C — ranging from validating the business thesis, to finding first customers, to nailing message-market fit, to proving unit economics, and scaling channels profitably. - **Interface with Palm leadership** to share insights, proactively flag concerns, and inform portfolio-wide strategy and platform evolution  - **Spot gaps in resources, expertise, and/or experience** and connect CEOs to the **right resources fast**, whether that’s Palm’s platform teams (legal, finance, recruiting), or a difference-making industry expert.  - **Coach founder-CEOs at regular cadence** and as-needed, providing hands-on support — making decisions with balanced urgency and psychological safety. Success means: - **CEOs achieve their milestones — and their missions** — faster and with more joy and ease because of your partnership. This will show up in their performance, and in how they speak about you.  - **Palm principals get leverage.** That means better visibility into portfolio health, clearer inputs for decision-making, a platform that evolves because of what you bring back from the field, and a network that grows richer through yours. ### About You You're an Austin-based serial consumer business builder who's been the operator in the room across diverse startups — before and after product-market fit — multiple times. You've lived the milestones our founders are pursuing from aligning plan to thesis, to finding first customers, to nailing message-market fit, to scaling channels profitably. ## Requirements You likely bring the following: - Been the operator in the room—Founder, CEO, COO, CMO, or Head of Sales—across multiple consumer startups, pre- and post-PMF. - Scaled a brand from first customer through profitable channel at 2x+ ROAS. - Architected the growth engine—acquisition, retention, brand positioning, CAC—plus the underlying mechanics: pricing, merchandising, forecasting, inventory, and cash flow. - Built a "battle-tested" rolodex of experts they've called on when things got sideways. - Coached founders through messy decisions with equal parts urgency and psychological safety. ## Benefits Why this, why now? The money is helpful, but that's not why you'd say yes. You'd say yes because: - **A Leveraged Way to Help Compelling Companies Win.** The highest possible leverage on your time - helping other CEOs working on compelling things win.   - **Challenge, Variety, Fun.** A diverse portfolio of companies at different stages, not one problem on repeat. - **Equity, Board Trajectory, Expanded Scope.** Relationships that open doors to future stakes, formal board roles, and more full-time work with Palm.  - **Network and Community.** A tight, Austin-centered community of founders, investors and operators, backed by Palm's 30-year track record and startup studio infrastructure. Want to build with us? Put your hat in the ring! ## Apply [Apply at Palm Venture Studios](https://apply.workable.com/palm-venture-studios/j/F68A5A7BBE/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)