Venture Designer

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.

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.

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.

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