Co-Founder & CEO - AI Freight & Supply Chain

Job Description

Co-Founder & CEO - AI Freight & Supply Chain

FutureSight is hiring an experienced and visionary Founding CEO to lead HawkAI, an autonomous voice and messaging assistant for logistics teams. Logistics is a $26B+ industry drowning in manual communications. Freight brokerages, carriers, and warehouses make thousands of calls and emails daily.

HawkAI's AI workers autonomously handle 90%+ of routine communications from track-and-trace calls, load status updates, to shipment confirmations, so human teams can focus on exceptions and customer relationships.

Responsibilities

• Win customers — Run pilots, shape pricing, and validate retention + expansion


• Build the product — Work with FutureSight's product/engineering pod to launch V1


• Raise capital — Lead the seed raise with our initial cheque


• Build your team — Hire your founding team and set the cultural foundation

What We Bring

• Validated problem — You will enter a venture with a proven market need and strong momentum toward building and scaling


• Studio bench strength — Designers, engineers, growth marketers, and fundraising pros are embedded from Day 1


• Capital commitment — Initial pre-seed funding for early hires and building the MVP with potential for follow-on funding, and access to our investor and advisor network

What You Bring

• Founder-level drive — You are motivated to co-found a new venture as the CEO. With or without us, this is your calling


• Startup scrappiness — You know what you're signing up for. You are familiar with the scrappiness of owning something from start to finish


• Previous founding experience — You have co-founded a product company or B2B SaaS venture or have been at a venture-backed company


• Risk appetite and capacity — Read more on our post on the Entrepreneurial Risk Profile


• GTM chops — Proven success in B2B SaaS sales, marketing, and customer engagement


• Fundraising fluency — Able to craft investor narratives and close capital; well-networked in fintech and early-stage communities


• People leadership — Magnet for top talent; coach and culture carrier


• Industry experience — Background in logistics, supply chain, freight brokerage, transportation, or B2B enterprise software that serves these industries


• Bonus: Exposure to AI agents/LLMs

What You Can Expect

• Daily active engagement with our team to: launch initial product, achieve initial market traction and prepare for seed fundraise


• Full P/L ownership of the new entity


• A significant equity stake in the business


• This is a full-time role; we are looking for someone to commit full-time and exclusively to building and owning a new SaaS venture

Ready to Build? If this is the perfect opportunity for you, we want to hear from you! Submit your Resume and LinkedIn profile and tell us more about why you think we should chat!