Director - Venture Design

2070 Health is a healthcare-focused venture studio. We don't just back ideas, we build companies from scratch, inside the studio, across consumer health categories: diagnostics, chronic care, longevity, metabolic health, Pediatrics, and beyond.

The Director – Venture Design is one of the most exciting roles in our studio. You will be the person who finds and proves the next thing we build, before anyone else knows it's worth building. You will ideate, stress-test, and validate new venture theses using rapid experimentation: painted door tests, consumer ethnography, prototype markets, and first-principles business design.

This role is not for people who need a roadmap. It's for people who build the map.

What You'll Do

• Generate and stress-test new venture theses in consumer health , using market sizing, consumer psychology, and competitive white-space analysis
• Design and run rapid validation experiments: painted door / fake-door campaigns, landing page tests, waitlist signals, and survey-based concept tests, before writing a single line of code or spending on supply
• Partner with the Category research and other teams to Conduct deep consumer and KOL research, qualitative interviews, ethnographic observation, Jobs-to-be-Done mapping, to uncover unmet needs and behavioural patterns that venture ideas can be anchored to
• Build and run test markets: recruit early users, set up lightweight operational setups, measure willingness-to-pay, repeat behaviour, and referral signal
• Prototype business models, pricing logic, channel architecture, unit economics hypotheses and design experiments to kill bad assumptions fast
• Work closely with the founding team to develop investment theses, business plans, and launch briefs for ideas that clear the bar
• Maintain a living pipeline of ideas at various stages: raw hypotheses → structured concepts → validated ventures ready for resource commitment
• Build the venture design playbook for 2070 Health, frameworks for how we evaluate, test, and graduate new ideas into fully-funded businesses

Requirements

Who You Are

You're probably already doing some version of this, even if your job title doesn't say so.

What we're looking for:

• 5–10 years of experience, with at least one role that was genuinely 0→1 — you built something from a blank page, not from a brief
• Demonstrated comfort operating in ambiguity: you make structured progress without waiting for clarity, permission, or precedent
• Fluent in consumer psychology and behaviour design, you understand why people buy (and don't), and can design research to test your assumptions quickly
• Experience running rapid experimentation: A/B tests, painted door campaigns, MVP markets, prototype pilots, or design sprints
• Strong first-principles thinker, you can decompose a complex market problem into testable hypotheses and work from evidence, not assumption
• Exposure to consumer health, healthtech, wellness, insurance, or other trust-sensitive categories is a strong advantage
• Founding experience, consulting background, or time at a venture studio / innovation lab is highly valued
• Tier-1 MBA or equivalent academic pedigree, though exceptional non-MBA candidates with the right track record will absolutely be considered

You'll Thrive Here If...

• You get more energy from a blank whiteboard than a detailed brief
• You've run experiments that failed and you treat that as signal, not failure
• You can write a crisp two-pager on a new venture idea and stress-test it in the same sitting

Benefits

Why This Role

• You'll work on the question most operators never get to ask: what should we build next and how do we know it's worth building?

• Studio-level scope: your validated ideas become fully funded companies, not internal projects
• Direct partnership with 2070 Health's founding team and investor network
• Consumer health is one of the last large, underpenetrated markets in India, the ideas you prove here will matter
• Mumbai base; periodic travel for consumer research and market visits