Venture Designer (Singapore)

Job description

**About Founders Factory** 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. **About the Role** 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. 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. **What You'll Do** You'll own the end-to-end venture design sprint, working across research, strategy, prototyping, and validation. Specifically, you will: - Take investment themes developed with our 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 to conceptualise solutions that address real user needs. - 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 from many ideas to a shortlist of the strongest concepts. - 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. - Collaborate across the studio — working with other Venture Designers, Venture Builders, investors, and functional specialists — to sharpen your thinking and leverage collective expertise. - Stay close to emerging technologies, tools, and market shifts so you're always bringing fresh thinking to each sprint. **What We're Looking For** - Proven experience in 0→1 concept development, venture design, or similar roles where you've taken ideas from fuzzy opportunity spaces through to validated propositions — ideally across multiple industries or verticals. - Strong strategic thinking combined with a bias for action. You can zoom out to see the big picture and zoom in to run a scrappy experiment in the same afternoon. - Deep comfort with market research and competitive analysis. You know how to find signal in noise and develop a point of view on where a market is going. - 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. You'll need to present complex findings and recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders with diverse backgrounds. - A curious, creative mind that also brings discipline — you generate lots of ideas but know how to prioritise ruthlessly based on evidence. - Comfort with ambiguity and pace. The sprint format means things move fast and the brief is often wide open. That excites you, not intimidates you. **Nice to Have** - Background in innovation or a venture studio/builder environment. - Experience working with or alongside corporate partners and navigating stakeholder dynamics. - Familiarity with rapid prototyping tools (Figma, no-code/low-code platforms) to bring concepts to life quickly. - Understanding of business model design and unit economics at the concept stage. - Experience across multiple sectors (fintech, healthtech, sustainability, consumer, etc.). **What We Offer** - The chance to shape ventures from the very beginning — the concepts you validate become real companies. - A collaborative, high-energy studio environment surrounded by builders, investors, and operators. - Exposure to a diverse range of industries and corporate partners. - Support across marketing, legal, finance, fundraising, growth, and recruitment. - Competitive salary and benefits package.