Venture Designer
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 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