About the Role
You'll own the end-to-end venture design sprint, working across research, strategy, prototyping, and validation. You'll take high-level investment themes developed with corporate partners and turn them into validated, venture-backable concepts through a structured three-month sprint. You'll dig into markets, uncover gaps, conceptualise solutions, and pressure-test them with real users before a founder is ever hired. You'll design and run rapid experiments to validate or kill concepts quickly, and present your validated concepts to the Investment Committee, making a compelling case for which ventures to greenlight. You'll collaborate across the studio with other Venture Designers, Venture Builders, investors, and functional specialists to sharpen your thinking.
Requirements
- Proven experience in 0→1 concept development, venture design, or similar roles taking ideas from fuzzy opportunity spaces through to validated propositions, ideally across multiple industries or verticals.
- Strong strategic thinking combined with a bias for action.
- Deep comfort with market research and competitive analysis.
- 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.
- A curious, creative mind that also brings discipline.
- Comfort with ambiguity and pace.
Responsibilities
- Take investment themes developed with 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.
- 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 to a shortlist of the strongest concepts.
- Present validated concepts to the Investment Committee, making a compelling case for which ventures to greenlight.
- Collaborate across the studio with other Venture Designers, Venture Builders, investors, and functional specialists.
- Stay close to emerging technologies, tools, and market shifts.
Benefits
- Desk space in London office with a fully-serviced workspace
- Support across marketing, legal, finance, fundraising, growth, and recruitment
- Competitive salary and benefits package