Overview

Reports to: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Location: San Francisco, onsite (Jackson Square) Compensation: $180,000 - $300,000 base salary plus significant equity About Aonic Aonic is deploying AI to drastically reduce the cost of living. We are building Aonic Club: the club contract Costco proved over four decades, rebuilt online and AI-native. An annual membership gets Americans elevated everyday products at cost, starting with functional nutrition. We make the products ourselves and run sourcing, content, forecasting and service with AI agents, which deletes the 30-40% of retail and marketing layers inside every consumer price. The savings go to members, not margins: under Kirkland wherever Costco competes, and up to 80% below the brands. Our ambition is big: 1 million members and a $10 billion company within a few years, built by a handful of humans with extreme leverage: AI agents running the operations, a community as the channel, and the AI dividend delivered to everyday America. Learn more about Aonic in our company presentation. The Role As Category CEO for Protein, Supplements & Beverages, you run Aonic's core business end to end: every protein, supplement, sports-nutrition product and healthy beverage we sell, in the club and in retail. Aonic is organized around Category CEOs, one per category we take on, and you are the first. You own your category the way a founder owns a company: what we launch, who makes it, what it costs and how it reaches members and retail shelves. You own the cost, not the price: every product sells at cost plus a flat 10%. Your north star is your category's revenue at constant cost, guarded by our price rule (at least 15% under Costco and 40% under the brand), quality and cash. Supplement or beverage industry experience is not required. We are looking for an exceptional operator from the tech world who builds with AI first and learns a physical-product business fast. You will work side by side with the CEO, who has run this category until now, with our in-house lab and with a senior industry advisor who brings decades of supplement and beverage experience. What You'll Own The Range Own the line-up: Aonic Fuel (ready-to-drink and powder), Aonic Complete, Race, Build and Flow today; creatine, an eight-product gummy range, whey, matcha protein and vitamins next; healthy beverages after that.Decide what launches, when, and against which incumbent, using our playbook: borrow existing demand, attack a named best seller, clinical doses only. Manufacturing & Sourcing Own every contract manufacturer, co-packer, ingredient and packaging supplier, from first quote to signed supply agreement, with a backup for every product.Negotiate price, minimum order quantities, payment terms and lead times, and keep re-quoting. Because we sell at cost, every dollar you take out goes to members. Quality & Formulas Brief our in-house lab and work with our advisor on formulas, specifications and certificates of analysis.Own the quality system: current good manufacturing practice, NSF International certification, claims and, if it ever comes to it, recalls. Retail Own retail for your categories: Sprouts, H-E-B and our distributors, run as proof and as a funnel into the club.Play by our rules: no cash slotting fees, trade spend at or below 15%, retail judged by the members it brings in. AI-Native Operations Run your category with AI agents: sourcing, forecasting, pricing and supplier outreach, built with our founding engineer on the systems behind our warehouse, shipping and store.Design the agents, set their rules and measure them, so the category scales with very few humans. Team & Playbook Lead the Sourcing Manager and the lab, and hire a retail sales manager. Grow the team only as volume grows.Write the playbook every future Category CEO at Aonic will run on. Hard Requirements To be successful in this role, all of the following must be true: At least 4 years of operating experience in operations, strategy and operati