Venture Builder
Founders Factory is a global venture studio and accelerator that builds and funds startups alongside exceptional entrepreneurs and the world's leading corporations. It provides capital, operational support from a 60+ person team of operators, and access to a coalition of corporate partners, focusing on sectors like Fintech, Health, Industrials, and Deep Tech.
About Founders Factory
Founders Factory backs visionary founders with capital, dedicated support from a team of 60+ operators, and unrivalled access to a coalition of industry-leading corporate partners. It operates a Venture Studio (co-founding new companies with the backing of its team and partners) and an Accelerator (helping startups raise capital and grow in pre-seed and seed stage investment programs). Its platform spans Capital (funding startups at idea, pre-seed and seed stages), Operational Support (co-founder level support to help find product-market fit, build companies, and raise rounds), Corporate Partners (access to distribution, market intelligence, commercial partnerships and follow-on capital), and Community & Network (operating at the centre of Europe's tech ecosystem with a global community of founders, investors and corporate innovators). The company runs multiple sector-specific accelerator programs globally (e.g. Northwestern Medicine Healthcare Accelerator, Aviva Fintech Accelerator, Rio Tinto Mining Tech Accelerator, MSWA MS & Neurological Care Accelerator, HSBC Industrial Innovator Programme, Blue Action Accelerator) and has built a portfolio of 450+ startups across Fintech, Health, Deep Tech, Climate, Mining Tech, AI, Media, and other sectors, with notable exits including Monolith, Landvault, Fluidstack, Flourish, Feedr, and Honest Health.
Skills
About the Role
You'll take ideas from zero to venture-backable businesses, working closely with founders to shape strategy, validate problem spaces, build MVPs, and find early product market fit. You'll operate across product, design, growth and tech, moving fast, making decisions, and focusing relentlessly on what creates the most leverage at each stage of a venture. You'll own the end-to-end early build, get products into users' hands fast using lean and experimental approaches, and challenge founders' thinking to sharpen focus and drive momentum. You'll help ventures progress through studio stage gates and communicate progress, learnings, and trade-offs clearly with founders and the wider studio.
Requirements
- Demonstrated 0→1 experience in digital health or medtech, whether at a startup, through a side project, research, or volunteering
- Experience applying AI or developing innovative health/medical devices is highly advantageous
- Subscribe to lean methodologies and an experimental approach, prioritising speed, learning, and focus over perfection
- Comfortable wearing multiple hats across product, design, tech, and growth, and knowing when to pull in specialist support
- Strong technical mindset with the ability to build no-code / low-code solutions, prototypes, or proofs of concept
- Commercially curious with the ability to think about ICPs, value propositions, pricing hypotheses, and early GTM
- Able to communicate ideas, progress and learnings to the team, seeking feedback when needed
- Comfortable setting expectations and ways of working with founders, and maintaining strong, honest working relationships
- Professional German language proficiency is mandatory
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end early build from problem definition and MVP scoping through to shipping, testing, and iteration
- Get products into users' hands fast using lean, experimental approaches to validate assumptions and generate learning
- Shape the customer experience and product vision, balancing user needs with commercial and technical realities
- Work closely with founders to challenge thinking, sharpen focus, and drive momentum
- Help ventures progress through studio stage gates, supporting founders towards evidence-backed investment committee decisions
- Spot opportunities early by staying close to market dynamics, emerging tech, and real user behaviour
- Communicate progress, learnings, trade-offs, and recommendations with founders and the wider studio