Rainmaking Hiring For Commercial Venture Founder x 2 at Central Singapore Full Time

Commercial Venture Founder x 2

Rainmaking–Central Singapore

16 minutes ago, from Workable ATS

Do you want to build a startup in partnership with one of the region’s largest and most influential companies? A startup that is substantially de-risked and well funded from Day One? A startup that achieves greatly accelerated growth by unlocking the huge potential of our corporate partners’ scale-strengths and assets? A startup with rapidly increasing enterprise value in which you directly benefit?

We are excited to have two highly promising ventures emerging from our Venture Studio and ready to be taken to the next level. These are in partnership with a top MNC and will leverage both physical and digital solutions. These roles will suit someone who loves changing hearts & minds whilst being deeply respectful of tradition and culture in which norms are born out of.

If you have experience of working with large corporates and being a founder of your own startup (ideally B2B), a passion for creating new ventures and can lead & inspire a fast-growing and fast-scaling venture team, one of these Founding roles could be for you…

About Rainmaking APAC Venture Studio

We are a Venture Build Studio with more than a decade’s experience of working with some of the world’s largest and most influential companies. We’ve built and launched over 60 ventures and worked with 80 of the Fortune 500.

We combine the best of entrepreneurial capability and corporate assets to build high-impact and fast-scaling new ventures in APAC. Together with market-leading corporate partners and entrepreneurial founding teams, we build, launch and scale impactful new ventures.

Who are we looking for?

We are currently seeking two high impact candidates to lead each venture as the Commercial Co-Founder. These roles will see you embedded as the Venture CEO who will lead the venture and team through launch and commercialisation.

You will join the venture at seed investment stage, following the validation work undertaken by our Venture Studio team. You will benefit from our Venture Studio team’s support and infrastructure, and will leverage the relevant assets of our corporate partners as the venture rapidly grows.

You will have full responsibility for the direction, strategy, performance, team & company culture of this new entity, leading from the front to create outsized impact.

What will you do?

• Establish the roadmap for the MVP development and launch of the venture in market
• Build, grow and evolve the venture’s value proposition and business model
• Gain commercial traction from the first few customers and prove preliminary market fit with a deep focus on partnership creation
• Guide the new organization in the right direction based on customer development, market feedback and strategic imperatives
• Build the new organization from the ground up, ensuring strong ties with the corporate partners’ strategic objectives
• Proactively develop and sell the concept to relevant stakeholders, co-invested parties, partners and customers
• Define and help to hire the wider founding team
• Define and establish the culture and positioning of the new venture
• Oversee the financial and operating performance of the business

Requirements

Commercial Founder profiles for our ventures typically have:

• Deep industry knowledge and domain insights in a number of high-value sectors – if you’ve been part of a journey digitalising a more traditional industry, this would be advantageous
• Demonstrated experience building new corporate ventures / founding startups, with experience of both success and failure as an entrepreneur
• Experience leading startups from early stage to scale with expertise in raising significant funding rounds
• Practical understanding and experience of lean startup methodology, business model innovation, customer development, lean experiment design, rapid prototyping, venture structuring, governance and appraisal
• A strong appreciation of the need to embrace risk in order to achieve the breakthroughs that solve the biggest challenges; and an ability to navigate the complexity and pitfalls in doing so
• A deep network to leverage in Southeast Asia and beyond
• Experience of managing and growing P&Ls in this region
• A digital mindset and open approach to change
• Innate strength of leadership, empathy and intellectual agility with the ability to build, manage and inspire entrepreneurial teams
• Willingness to learn and to be coached; self-awareness and flexibility
• Exception organisational skills, being ruthless in prioritising allocation of time and resources in pursuit of a regular cadence of outcomes and progress

Benefits

Our Promise:

Working with us will be energising. It will be challenging, entrepreneurial, sometimes scrappy, and deeply fulfilling. You will work with passionate, ambitious, action-oriented people, enthused by building businesses and having a positive impact on the world. You will be tasked with significant responsibilities. You will be valued, appreciated and believed in.

Values & Culture:

We strive to build and grow businesses that break new ground and unlock human potential through entrepreneurship. We want to deliver significant positive impact both for ourselves and to the world in which we live.

We have built a strong ethical codex. It encompasses not just what we do, but how we do it. Our values can be summarised as: be entrepreneurial, be impactful, be kind. We believe that how you engage with people makes all the difference. Please read the Rainmaking Culture Book here to see how you align and can make the difference too.

We’re committed to being a place where a diverse mix of talented people thrive. If much of this role resonates with you but you don’t think you tick all the boxes, please apply anyway! We recognise different people have different confidence levels during applications and we wouldn’t want this to stop us meeting you.

We recruit, employ, train and compensate regardless of race, religion, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status. We’re committed to being a place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay and do their best work. We might not do everything perfectly just yet and would like to hear your feedback and suggestions if you think there are areas in which we could improve, or if you believe we have not provided you with a fair opportunity.