Founders Factory - Venture Designer
Requirements
• Strong strategic thinking combined with a bias for action. You can zoom out to see the big picture and zoom in to run a scrappy experiment in the same afternoon. • Deep comfort with market research and competitive analysis. You know how to find signal in noise and develop a point of view on where a market is going. • Experience designing and running rapid experiments (A/B tests, landing page tests, concierge MVPs, user interviews) to validate assumptions with real users. • Excellent communication and storytelling skills. You'll need to present complex findings and recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders with diverse backgrounds. • A curious, creative mind that also brings discipline — you generate lots of ideas but know how to prioritise ruthlessly based on evidence. • Comfort with ambiguity and pace. The sprint format means things move fast and the brief is often wide open. That excites you, not intimidates you. • Background in innovation or a venture studio/builder environment. • Experience working with or alongside corporate partners and navigating stakeholder dynamics. • Familiarity with rapid prototyping tools (Figma, no-code/low-code platforms) to bring concepts to life quickly. • Understanding of business model design and unit economics at the concept stage. • Experience across multiple sectors (fintech, healthtech, sustainability, consumer, etc.).
Responsibilities
• You'll own the end-to-end venture design sprint, working across research, strategy, prototyping, and validation. Specifically, you will: • Take investment themes developed with our corporate partners and break them down into explorable problem spaces and opportunity areas. • Conduct deep market research to understand where sectors are heading, identify structural gaps, and map the competitive landscape. • Generate multiple potential venture concepts from each theme, applying human-centred design principles to conceptualise solutions that address real user needs. • Design and run rapid experiments — including A/B testing, prototype testing, and user interviews — to validate or kill concepts quickly. • Synthesise research and testing into clear, evidence-backed recommendations, narrowing from many ideas to a shortlist of the strongest concepts. • Present validated concepts to the Investment Committee (comprising decision-makers from our corporate backers and the Founders Factory CEO), making a compelling case for which ventures to greenlight. • Collaborate across the studio — working with other Venture Designers, Venture Builders, investors, and functional specialists — to sharpen your thinking and leverage collective expertise. • Stay close to emerging technologies, tools, and market shifts so you're always bringing fresh thinking to each sprint.
Benefits
• The chance to shape ventures from the very beginning — the concepts you validate become real companies. • A collaborative, high-energy studio environment surrounded by builders, investors, and operators. • Exposure to a diverse range of industries and corporate partners. • Support across marketing, legal, finance, fundraising, growth, and recruitment. • Competitive salary and benefits package.
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