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# Level Sports, CEO at Mechanism Ventures

- **Company:** Mechanism Ventures
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $180k–$220k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mechanism-ventures/b0963a99-8ce7-494f-88f4-bc9582e24650

## Job description

The Company Mechanism exists to build $10 billion in liquid enterprise value by December 2035 — our 10-in-10 mission. We get there by building or acquiring profitable companies and turning them into enterprises. Since 2019, we've launched and scaled 10 companies while driving $300M+ in revenue by treating company-building as an engineering problem. We combine rigorous validation, advanced analytics, and repeatable systems to dramatically increase the odds of success. Today, we are taking company-building in-house. We scaled our pre-vetting engine and learned it does not yet yield the companies we need, so we are deliberately doing the things that don't scale — to learn what profitable, defensible scale actually requires.

A Message from Our CEO "At Mechanism, our goal is to generate $10B in liquid enterprise value over the next 10 years. We call it '10-in-10.' Level's next chapter is part of that mission. With PrimePutt, we've built a product golfers love, and we've taken the company to millions in revenue with tens of thousands of customers. The next stage is all about expansion. I’m looking for a golf-obsessed leader to own Level end-to-end and take it to the next level of profitability. Someone who thinks from first principles, gets into the details, fails and learns faster than anyone around them, and turns customer insight into profitable growth. If you want real ownership, a high-trust partnership, and the chance to build something meaningful in a sport you love, let's talk." Breanden Beneschott, Mechanism Co-founder & CEO

The Opportunity Golfers will do almost anything to shave strokes. PrimePutt helps them put in the work at home, on the same surface PGA professionals use. It’s a product golfers love and recommend, with a loyal customer base and a growing owned audience. Over the past year and a half, we’ve strengthened the business behind it. The financials are clean, manufacturing is dialed in, and operations are built to scale. The foundation is in place. Now it’s time to see how far we can take it. Your mission is to turn Level into a highly profitable, growing golf company. You’ll own the whole business, including the P&L, product, growth, and the team. You’ll sit on the board and earn meaningful equity as you hit each milestone. You’ll set the direction for what Level makes, who it reaches, and where it invests. You won’t be starting from zero, and you won’t be doing it alone. You’ll inherit a proven product, an engaged audience, a PGA coach, and a putting game already running competitions with one of the largest golf communities online. You’ll build alongside Mechanism’s experts across Growth, Product, Engineering, Design, Operations, People, Finance, and Legal. Bring 20 ideas. Ship the best ones in days, not quarters. Kill what doesn’t work, and pour fuel on what does. If you’re the golfer who can’t walk through a pro shop without spotting the product nobody’s made yet, this is your shot. Build the golf company you’d want to buy from, and own a real piece of what you build.

## Key Responsibilities

You Have Three Core Missions

- Expand the Growth Engine: Own strategy and hands-on execution across paid media, creative, email, and partnerships. Build an owned audience through useful golf content, training programs, and offers, then convert that audience into customers. Ship new creative weekly, improve landing pages and nurture sequences, and scale the approaches that drive profitable sales.
- Drive Profitable Growth: Own Level’s financial performance. Plan cash and inventory around seasonal demand, improve margins across products and fulfillment, and make disciplined decisions about growth investment. Build a clear case for where additional capital can accelerate profitable growth, and track whether those investments deliver.
- Expand the Product Line and Build the Team: Identify and launch complementary golf products that give customers more ways to buy from Level. Validate demand, margins, and inventory needs before scaling, and use your golf network to develop credible partnerships. Hire contractors and team members where they improve execution and support profitable growth.

## Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Core Requirements The right candidate will recognize themselves in the message above. This is a role for a golf-obsessed operator who can demonstrate the following:

- Golf Obsession: You understand golf culture, how golfers practice, and what motivates them to buy. You can recognize credible instruction, create offers that resonate, and build relationships with coaches, creators, and golf communities.
- Hands-On Growth Expertise: You've personally run paid media, especially Meta, built creative at volume, and scaled acquisition channels. You can set the strategy and do the work yourself.
- DTC Physical Product Experience: You've grown a direct-to-consumer brand selling a physical product, ideally at a premium price point.
- Financial Judgment: You understand how acquisition costs, margins, inventory, and operating expenses turn into cash, and you've made sound calls with a tight cash position.
- Founder Mentality: You've built a business or owned meaningful outcomes at an early-stage company. You move fast, solve problems with limited resources, and own results.
- AI-Native by Default: You use AI daily to accelerate analysis, creative, and execution, and you can point to workflows you've built and the results they produced.
- Team Leadership: You've hired and led strong performers and know when hiring creates more value than doing the work yourself.

What to Expect This role moves between strategy and execution every day. You'll make consequential decisions and personally do the work to deliver them. First 30 days: Take the handoff and set the plan

- Complete Mechanism's CEO onboarding and growth training.
- Complete the handoff with the current CEO, and build relationships with the team, contractors, and Mechanism's Practice Areas.
- Evaluate existing campaigns, training offers, audience initiatives, and product tests. Identify what to scale, improve, or stop.
- Read the Black Friday and holiday results: what sold, at what price, through which channels, and at what cost.
- Partner with our product and operations team to design a weekly creative program shipping new ads, with fast and clear results.
- Review unit economics, cash, inventory, and supplier obligations.

By 60 days: Own the business and get the engine running

- Take full responsibility for operations and financial performance.
- Run a weekly creative and conversion testing program, with clear results informing each next round.
- Run a weekly operating cadence covering revenue, acquisition cost, margins, cash, inventory, and customer experience.
- Fix any operational bottlenecks and decide where contractors, automation, or hiring will help.

By 90 days: Show progress and plan the season

- Show measurable progress toward three consecutive profitable months.
- Scale what's working, and stop or revise what isn't.
- Demonstrate which audience-building efforts are converting into product sales and contributing to profitability.
- Present the spring season plan, including Father's Day, the next SKU or price test, investment priorities, and team needs.

Logistics Fully remote, full-time, with most of the workday overlapping US Eastern Time. Expected start is around January 2027, with a full handoff from the current CEO. Compensation includes a base salary and a significant equity stake. For candidates located in New York, Washington, Colorado, California, and Illinois, the base salary range is $180,000 to $220,000 USD. Compensation may vary depending on qualifications, skills, experience, and location.

## About Mechanism Ventures

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Mechanism Ventures is a startup studio that builds profitable companies from scratch using an engineering and data-driven approach, targeting billion-dollar exits.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup Studio/Bootstrapped model; does not raise institutional capital for its ventures)
- **Headquarters**: Remote-first, with team members across 5 continents; legal entity based in the United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Breanden Beneschott (CEO & Cofounder) and Denis Grosz (Cofounder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals (industry classification per LinkedIn), operating as a startup studio or venture builder
- Target customers: B2B and B2C markets across multiple industries; the studio builds companies targeting enterprises and consumer audiences, with a focus on growth-led, data-driven models
- Mission or purpose statement: "Build profitable companies, and turn them into enterprises" — aiming to create mission-driven companies that improve the lives of millions or billions of people

## Products & Services
- **Startup Studio / Venture Builder**: Mechanism Ventures creates and scales multiple companies simultaneously, providing shared infrastructure, engineering, growth, and operational expertise. They have built ten high-growth companies since 2019, driving over $200M in revenue.
- **Portfolio Companies**: Current investments and built ventures include Bold.org (raised $275M), Live It Up, Pettable (raised $110M), Realign, Career Testing, Virtual Pet Care, Level Sports, Thrive, and others. Exits include BestReviews (acquired by Nexstar), Apartment List, and Coinbase (investor).
- **Internal Services**: Shared functions like Growth Engineering, Operations Engineering, Strategic Finance, and Organic Growth support all portfolio companies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed; the firm targets $1B+ exits for its ventures
- **Key Metric**: Total revenue driven by built companies exceeds $200M; annual revenue of Mechanism Ventures LLC is reported at approximately $100,767 (likely a management fee figure)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Founders have deep ties to Toptal (valued at $3.6B), BestReviews, SmartAsset, Thumbtack, and Coinbase. Investors/advisors include Denis Grosz (BestReviews, Thumbtack). The firm does not rely on institutional venture capital for its studio model.
- **Growth Signals**: 100% success rate in getting companies to profitability; ten companies built since 2019; fully remote global team of 66 employees across 18 countries; active job postings up 150% year-over-year

## Competitive Advantages
- **Engineering approach to entrepreneurship**: Uses algorithms and advanced mathematics to automate company building, aiming to "press a button to launch profitable companies"
- **Profitability-first model**: Unlike traditional venture studios, Mechanism focuses on achieving profitability before scaling, reinvesting internal resources rather than raising external capital
- **High talent density**: Hires top engineering minds from Princeton, MIT, and other elite institutions; maintains a meritocratic culture with high expectations
- **Diversified portfolio risk**: Operates as the backbone of multiple companies simultaneously, providing cross-industry learning and risk mitigation
- **Long-term equity upside**: Founders emphasize that equity stakes in built companies will dwarf other compensation over time

## Strategic Focus
- **Automation of company building**: Current priority is to systematize and scale the venture creation process, making it repeatable and data-driven
- **Global talent acquisition**: Hiring top performers regardless of location, with a focus on growth, operations, and engineering roles
- **Compound growth over time**: The model's value emerges in later years and cycles, requiring a long-term view; the firm is optimizing for billion-dollar exits without institutional capital
- **Data-driven product and marketing**: Growth is in the company's DNA, with emphasis on performance marketing, data-informed product decisions, and quantified opportunity costs

## Why Work Here
- **High-performance, high-learning environment**: Described as "the rate of learning and growth at an early-stage company is as high as it gets," with exposure to over a dozen industries simultaneously
- **Fully remote and global**: Team members on 5 continents; values autonomy, asynchronous communication, and hiring the best talent regardless of location
- **Meritocratic culture**: "We trust data over intuition," with candid feedback, high expectations, and a focus on slope (growth potential) rather than y-intercept (current output)
- **Hands-on, individual contributor roles**: Every role maintains an IC component; leaders lead by example and do not outsource thinking
- **Work-life integration**: Flexible hours with a focus on autonomy and results; acknowledges that work often extends beyond a typical 40-hour week
- **Long-term financial upside**: Equity stakes are expected to be the primary wealth-building vehicle; the firm is transparent about the need for a long-term view
- **Current open roles** (as of search date): Supply Chain Lead, Finance Operator (multiple specializations), Operations Engineer, Growth Engineer, and other growth-focused positions

## Sources
1. [mechanism.com](https://mechanism.com/)
2. [mechanism.com/careers](https://mechanism.com/careers)
3. [mechanism.com/jobs](https://mechanism.com/jobs)
4. [linkedin.com/company/mechanism-ventures](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mechanism-ventures)
5. [theorg.com/org/mechanism-ventures](https://theorg.com/org/mechanism-ventures)

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