Venture Designer
Founders Factory is a venture studio, accelerator, and investment platform that builds and funds early-stage startups. It supports founders with capital, operational expertise, corporate partnerships, and access to a global network.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
About Founders Factory
Founders Factory partners with entrepreneurs and leading companies to co-found new ventures, accelerate startups, and invest in early-stage businesses. Its activities include venture building, cohort-based accelerator programs, sector-focused investment funds, operational support, and corporate innovation partnerships across fintech, health, industrials, deep tech, and climate. It serves ambitious founders, corporate partners, and early-stage technology startups.
Skills
Candidate Availability
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About the Role
Own the end-to-end venture design sprint across research, strategy, prototyping, and validation. Translate high-level investment themes into validated, venture-backable concepts through market analysis, human-centred design, rapid experimentation, and presentation to the Investment Committee.
Requirements
- Proven experience in 0→1 concept development, venture design, or similar roles.
- Strong strategic thinking and bias for action.
- Deep comfort with market research and competitive analysis.
- Experience designing and running rapid experiments with real users.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills.
- Curiosity, creativity, and disciplined prioritisation.
- Comfort with ambiguity and pace.
Responsibilities
- Break investment themes into problem spaces and opportunity areas.
- Conduct market research, identify structural gaps, and map competitive landscapes.
- Generate venture concepts using human-centred design principles.
- Design and run A/B tests, prototype tests, and user interviews.
- Synthesise research into evidence-backed recommendations and shortlist strong concepts.
- Present validated concepts to the Investment Committee.
- Collaborate with Venture Designers, Venture Builders, investors, and functional specialists.
- Track emerging technologies, tools, and market shifts.
Benefits
- Opportunity to shape ventures from the earliest stage.
- Collaborative studio environment with builders, investors, and operators.
- Exposure to diverse industries and corporate partners.
- Desk space in the London office with a fully serviced workspace.
- Support across marketing, legal, finance, fundraising, growth, and recruitment.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.