Venture Designer (London) at Founders Factory

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About Founders Factory</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Founders Factory is a venture studio and accelerator backed by some of the world's leading corporations. We combine capital investment with deep operational expertise to build and scale tech companies from scratch. With a portfolio of over 300 companies and $900M+ in follow-on funding, we offer a unique opportunity to shape the future of tech and entrepreneurship - working at the intersection of corporate innovation and startup building.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About the Role</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Venture Design at Founders Factory is how we create new venture concepts on demand, not by chance. Working closely with our corporate partners, you'll take high-level investment themes and turn them into validated, venture-backable concepts through a structured three-month sprint.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This is the earliest and most exploratory stage of our venture building process. You'll dig into markets, uncover gaps, conceptualise solutions, and pressure-test them with real users - all before a founder is ever hired. The concepts you validate and present to our Investment Committee become the ventures we go on to build. It's high-impact, high-autonomy work that directly shapes our portfolio.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What You'll Do</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll own the end-to-end venture design sprint, working across research, strategy, prototyping, and validation. Specifically, you will:</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Take investment themes developed with our corporate partners and break them down into explorable problem spaces and opportunity areas.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Conduct deep market research to understand where sectors are heading, identify structural gaps, and map the competitive landscape.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Generate multiple potential venture concepts from each theme, applying human-centred design principles to conceptualise solutions that address real user needs.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design and run rapid experiments — including A/B testing, prototype testing, and user interviews — to validate or kill concepts quickly.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Synthesise research and testing into clear, evidence-backed recommendations, narrowing from many ideas to a shortlist of the strongest concepts.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Present validated concepts to the Investment Committee (comprising decision-makers from our corporate backers and the Founders Factory CEO), making a compelling case for which ventures to greenlight.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Collaborate across the studio — working with other Venture Designers, Venture Builders, investors, and functional specialists — to sharpen your thinking and leverage collective