Head of Venture Creation
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Lead venture creation platform for building and scaling deep technology startups from ground up.
О компании
- Roadrunner Venture Studios is the nation's leading platform for founding breakthrough ventures in deep technology. Our mission is to transform frontier science into venture-backable companies that solve meaningful problems for the benefit of the American people.
- Together with scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and investors, we build companies from the ground up—developing products, validating markets, recruiting exceptional teams, securing early customers, accessing non-dilutive funding, and raising the venture capital required to scale.
- Our work is concentrated across advanced energy, advanced materials, advanced manufacturing, and compute.
- At Roadrunner, the future doesn't just happen—we build it.
- Work directly with founders, scientists, and engineers to turn breakthrough technologies into products and companies.
- Define the product, customer, market, business model, and commercialization strategy needed to build a scalable venture.
- Drive customer discovery, product development, pilots, partnerships, and early commercial traction.
- Help build the founding team and recruit the executives and technical leaders required to scale.
- Develop the financing strategy and prepare founders and companies to raise venture, strategic, and non-dilutive capital.
- Step into hands-on operating roles, including interim CEO responsibilities, when needed to move a company forward.
Обязанности
- Roadrunner Venture Studios is seeking an accomplished deep-tech company builder to join us as Head of Venture Creation leading Venture Creation.
- We are looking for someone who has personally built, funded, and operated venture-backed deep technology companies from zero to one You have lived through the earliest and hardest stages of company creation: turning technology into a product, finding the first customers, building the initial team, raising institutional capital, and creating a business where none existed before.
- The Head of Venture Creation will join Roadrunner full time and help lead our venture creation platform. The Executive in Residence path is designed for an accomplished deep-tech founder or executive who wants to spend time building inside Roadrunner, for others, while determining what they want to build or lead next.
- In either capacity, you will lead Roadrunner's venture pod teams and founders to guide the creation of new companies across product, engineering, talent, commercialization, capital formation, and non-dilutive funding.
Будет плюсом
- Built and operated at least one venture-backed deep-tech company from 0→1, preferably multiple, in advanced energy, materials, manufacturing, or compute.
- Served as a founder, CEO, or senior operating executive with direct responsibility for product, commercialization, team building, and company growth.
- Raised or played a central leadership role in raising $10M+ in venture capital, ideally across multiple institutional rounds.
- Strong product-building capability, translating complex science and technology into products with real customer demand.
- Experience working directly with scientists and engineers to commercialize technically complex technologies.
- Experience with non-dilutive funding, government programs, or technologies originating from national labs, universities, or research institutions.
- Exceptional judgment, urgency, and ability to build and make decisions in highly ambiguous environments.
- Based in—or willing to spend significant time in—New Mexico.
Другое
- Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary venture pod teams across RRVS’s Venture Development Pathway: Identify, Evaluate, Build, and Scale.
- Identify: Develop venture theses around industry problems and identify the talent and technologies that can form the basis of new ventures.
- Evaluate: Help assemble the deal team, conduct due diligence, and support investment decisions on opportunities moving through the pipeline.
- Build: Lead the venture pod through company creation, leveraging RRVS’s DVFO methodology, Venture Architects, and Platform capabilities to build the company from 0→1.
- Scale: Support portfolio companies in securing customer pilots, corporate investment, and commercial offtake to advance commercialization and scale.
- Establish priorities and sequencing across the venture pod and ensure the right Studio and Fund resources are engaged at each stage of the Venture Development Pathway.
- Serve as an experienced operator and thought partner to founders as their companies develop.
- Serve as an Operating Advisor or Board Member for our companies over the long term.
- Bring lessons and pattern recognition from across the portfolio back into Roadrunner’s venture creation model and teams.
- Develop repeatable approaches and frameworks for building deep-tech companies.
- Bring founder-level judgment and pattern recognition into venture selection and company formation.
- Mentor Venture Architects and other members of Roadrunner's venture creation teams.
- Help evaluate technologies, markets, founders, and new venture opportunities.
- Raise the operating standard across Roadrunner's portfolio of emerging companies.
- The defining qualification for this role is repeated experience building deep-tech companies from zero to one.
- We are not looking primarily for consultants, advisors, investors, or traditional corporate executives. We want people who have personally experienced the realities of building venture-backed deep-tech businesses.