Highline Beta is hiring a Head of Venture Building. Your job will be to lead projects that we're working on in collaboration with corporates, family offices and other ecosystem partners. The goal of most projects is to go from an initial problem or problem space and validate a new venture that can be built. We strive to deliver the right strategic recommendation (i.e. build, buy, partner or spin-out) to our corporate partners, and if possible, go through the full venture building process to launch new businesses.

We are customer-obsessed doers driven by outcomes versus outputs. We're looking for someone who is as comfortable leading a meeting with corporate executives as they are being in the trenches working on and building businesses.

As Head of Venture Building, you will report to Highline Beta's Founders, Ben Yoskovitz and Marcus Daniels . You will be leading venture building initiatives with partners, which includes playing both strategic and execution-level roles.

This is not a team management role. We value a "bias to action". We are a flat organization of experienced, entrepreneurial team members. If you're primarily interested in managing a team and not executing the work itself, please do not apply.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Client Management & Business Development: 30% of time

Work directly with corporate executives to identify opportunities to build new ventures that are strategically aligned with their businesses
Coach client innovation / venture studio teams through the process of creating new ventures, supporting them with training as needed
Understand the challenges faced by corporate innovators, and design proposals and sales materials for how we can help

Venture Creation: 70% of time

Identify where there is opportunity to build ventures given the corporate client's business objectives through a mixture of ideation and validation processes
Use Lean Startup methodologies and Design Thinking to break those opportunities down into small, testable pieces - designing a rigorous testing system to do so
Conduct qualitative and quantitative market research to rigorously validate business assumptions/opportunities
Create business plans and models for new ventures, products and services - taking into account desirability, viability, and feasibility considerations
Coach corporate teams who are in charge of validating some of these new venture concepts - providing tools and tips based on first hand experience
Willing to get into the trenches with corporate teams, supporting on anything from product, design or development strategy (and knowing who to ask in the organization to fill in for these skills)

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Skills / Experiences

5+ years experience consulting with client teams, ideally with some experience in innovation consulting specifically
7+ years of product design or product management experience, giving you expertise in a hypothesis-driven approach to product or service development
Experience in a venture studio context is a plus
Experience consulting corporate partners and others on how to design, build, launch and run a venture studio is a plus
Ability to quickly understand a specific domain and identify the trends and opportunities in that space
Experience applying Design Thinking and Lean Startup methodologies to products and services
Travel when necessary

Desired Skills / Experiences

Experience launching and building new businesses
Experience in a high-pressure startup environment
Proficient ability to do any of the following when required: market research, qualitative (user) research, quantitative research, foresight strategy, ideation, product management
Technical or design skills are considered a plus

This Is a Great Fit For Candidates Who

Love working on intellectually demanding global mandates that require both strategy & execution
Is comfortable with a lot of entrepreneurial ambiguity & working fast with limited resources
Value equity upside in a portfolio of venture backed startups

This Isn't a Good Fit For Candidates Who

Want to manage teams over doing the work
Only want to work remote (we aim for 2 days/week in the office)
Won't travel to see corporate executives & founders in person where possible

When you join Highline Beta, here are the benefits & perks you can expect:

Competitive salary and employer-paid health benefits, including paid parental leave
Stock options & Venture Studio trust units
Bonus based on performance of role and company
A diverse team who is committed to inclusion

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