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title: 'CMO at Omi'
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last_seen: '2026-09-11'
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# CMO at Omi

- **Company:** Omi
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $300k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2025-08-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/omi/76fbe56f-7b24-46c1-afe7-d01df4df1b85

## Job description

Omi makes AI wearables that record and think with you. 10 000 units shipped, new dev-glasses live, factory slot booked. Next stop: 100 000 units out the door and 30 000 site views a day. We need someone who can turn that into reality—fast.

## What you’ll own

- Daily traffic: take us from 5 k → 50 k sessions by end of Q4.(~6M social media views per day, 180M views per month)
- Unit sales: 100 k necklaces sold in 2025
- UGC Creator army: recruit, onboard, and manage 100+ in-house short-form creators; four fresh clips live every day.
- Influencers/Ambassadors: recruit, onboard, and manage experienced creators
- Inhouse content: manage the team that produces inhouse content
- Team: hire, coach, and keep a lean crew of editors, growth PMs, and UGC shooters.

## What you’ve done

- You have 20K+ followers on socials yourself
- Scaled a company to 100M+ views on at least one channel for a brand.
- Closed creator and brand deals that actually moved product, not just vanity likes.
- Bonus: launched something viral in the last 12 months.

## How we’ll measure you

- Site sessions/day
- Units sold/week
- Cost per purchase

## What you get

- $120-200 k cash + 5-20 % equity
- Budget to hire and spend
- Live/work in San Francisco with a team that’s awake at 2 a.m. soldering and filming.

## About Omi

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Omi (Based Hardware Inc.) builds an open-source AI-powered wearable that captures conversations and screen activity to create a structured, searchable memory and productivity assistant.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed stage; $2.7M total funding raised)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Nik Shevchenko (CEO) – [omi.me/careers](https://www.omi.me/pages/careers)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI wearable hardware / note-taking software / brain-computer interface (BCI) development.
- **Target customers**: B2C (professionals, knowledge workers) and B2B (teams and enterprises); currently trusted by teams at Tony Robbins, Salesforce, SoftBank.
- **Mission / purpose**: “Enabling humans with smart consumer hardware unlocks our highest potential. By bringing humans and machines closer together we hope to remove communication barrier between the brain and machine, and raise everyone’s quality of life.” – [omi.me/careers](https://www.omi.me/pages/careers)

## Products & Services
- **Omi Wearable**: A hardware device designed for 24/7 continuous capture of conversations and ambient audio, paired with a mobile app. Open-source firmware and hardware specs available on GitHub. – [github.com/basedhardware/omi](https://github.com/basedhardware/omi)
- **Omi macOS App**: A desktop application (Swift/SwiftUI with Rust backend) that records screen and speech, generates transcripts, summaries, and action items, and provides an AI chat with full memory of everything seen and heard. – [github.com/basedhardware/omi](https://github.com/basedhardware/omi)
- **Omi Mobile App (iOS/Android)**: Flutter-based app that pairs with the wearable or runs standalone, offering voice-to-notes transcription, tasks, reminders, and AI chat. – [omi.me](https://www.omi.me/)
- **SDKs & APIs**: Open-source SDKs for React Native, Swift, Python, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, allowing developers to build custom apps and integrations. – [github.com/basedhardware/omi](https://github.com/basedhardware/omi)
- **Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Developer Kit**: Announced for Q1 2025, enabling developers to build mind-controlled AI applications. – [omi.me/blogs/news/omi-raises-2m](https://www.omi.me/blogs/news/omi-raises-2m-from-tim-draper)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metrics**: 
  - **Total Funding**: $2.7M (two Pre-Seed rounds: $700k led by 5Y Capital in Aug 2024; $2M led by Tim Draper in Mar 2025). – [linkedin.com/company/omidotme](https://www.linkedin.com/company/omidotme)
  - **User Base**: 300,000+ professionals. – [github.com/basedhardware/omi](https://github.com/basedhardware/omi)
  - **Monthly Website Visits**: 336,768 (growth +94.9% month-over-month). – [linkedin.com/company/omidotme](https://www.linkedin.com/company/omidotme)
  - **Headcount**: 14 employees (+633.3% YoY). – [linkedin.com/company/omidotme](https://www.linkedin.com/company/omidotme)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Tim Draper, Dropbox co-founder (unnamed in article), 468 Capital, Embedding VC, 5Y Capital, and angels. – [omi.me/blogs/news/omi-raises-2m](https://www.omi.me/blogs/news/omi-raises-2m-from-tim-draper)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Raised $2M from high-profile investors in early 2025.
  - 633% headcount growth year-over-year.
  - Open-source community with 3,900+ members on Discord.
  - Operating in 7 countries (US, India, Portugal, Kenya, China, Nepal, Israel).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-Source Ecosystem**: Full stack (firmware, mobile app, macOS app, backend, and SDKs) is open source – builds trust, allows customization, and attracts developer contributors.
- **Hardware + Software + BCI**: Only company combining an AI wearable, a full productivity app, and a brain-computer interface developer kit in one open platform.
- **Hiring Through Contributions**: Every hire so far has come via open-source pull requests – ensures a highly motivated, capable engineering team.
- **Founders’ Track Record**: The team consists of “cracked engineers” who previously built startups with millions of users or significant funding. – [omi.me/careers](https://www.omi.me/pages/careers)

## Strategic Focus
- Shipping a next-generation AI wearable in 2025.
- Launching the BCI developer kit to enable mind-controlled applications.
- Expanding the open-source developer ecosystem through hackathons, bounties, and contests.
- Aggressively hiring world-class engineers, designers, and builders across Flutter, Next.js, firmware, and generalist roles.
- Targeting both individual professionals and enterprise deployments.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “We build, ship, break things (then fix them), and push boundaries” – a fast-moving, founder-led startup in San Francisco. Team is small (~14 people) and highly selective.
- **Hiring Philosophy**: The fastest way to join is to contribute to the GitHub repo (submit meaningful pull requests). Every current engineer joined this way.
- **Perks & Compensation**: Roles listed with $200k–$300k salary + 1%–20% equity; in-person in San Francisco; roles include Co-Founder, Founding Engineer, Head of Taste, and Community Lead.
- **Mission-Driven**: Work on technology that “changes how humans interact with AI forever” – focusing on memory enhancement and brain-computer interfaces.
- **Remote / Hybrid**: Most full-time roles are in-person in San Francisco; an Ambassador role is remote/part-time.
- **Engineering Focus**: Emphasis on open-source, hackathons, and bounties; the team uses Flutter, Next.js, Swift, Rust, Python, and firmware (nRF, Zephyr, C).

## Sources
1. [omi.me/careers](https://www.omi.me/pages/careers)
2. [omi.me](https://www.omi.me/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/omidotme](https://www.linkedin.com/company/omidotme)
4. [omi.me/blogs/news/omi-raises-2m](https://www.omi.me/blogs/news/omi-raises-2m-from-tim-draper)
5. [github.com/basedhardware/omi](https://github.com/basedhardware/omi)

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