London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
👋 Hey, we're Founders Factory Founders Factory builds and funds startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and the world's leading companies. Headquartered in London and operating globally, Founders Factory backs …
Skills: 0 to 1 Product Building, Lean Methodology, MVP Scoping, No-code/Low-code Development, Product Strategy
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The Venture Builder is responsible for taking early-stage ideas from zero to venture-backable businesses by building MVPs and validating problem spaces. They work closely with founders to shape product vision, drive momentum, and navigate the studio stage gates.
Candidates must have proven experience building 0 to 1 products using lean and experimental methodologies. A strong technical mindset for building prototypes and a commercial curiosity regarding value propositions and GTM strategies are required.
Founders Factory builds and funds startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and the world's leading companies. Headquartered in London and operating globally, Founders Factory backs visionary founders with capital, dedicated support from a team of expert operators, and unrivalled access to a coalition of industry leading corporate partners. Since 2015, FF has backed 450+ portfolio companies helping them to secure over 500 enterprise pilots with blue chip corporate partners such as Aviva, Northwestern Medicine, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, and HSBC.
As a Venture Builder, you specialise in taking ideas from zero to venture-backable businesses. You work closely with founders to shape strategy, validate problem spaces, build MVPs, and find early product market fit. This is a hands on, high ownership role. You’ll operate across product, design, growth and tech, moving fast, making decisions, and focusing relentlessly on what creates the most leverage at each stage of a venture. You have a varied skill set and will have demonstrated an interest in tech and entrepreneurship. You will be an advocate for FF’s values and mission and be committed to supporting founders. You are opinionated but evidence led, creative but commercial, and comfortable operating in ambiguity. You care deeply about building products people actually want and businesses that can scale.
Please note that we are looking for someone who is available for an initial 6 month contract.
💪 Your responsibilities:
Owning the end-to-end early build: from problem definition and MVP scoping through to shipping, testing, and iteration
Getting products into users hands fast, using lean, experimental approaches to validate assumptions and generate learning
Shaping the customer experience and product vision, balancing user needs with commercial and technical realities
Working closely with founders to challenge thinking, sharpen focus, and drive momentum, especially when things feel unclear or uncomfortable
Helping ventures progress through studio stage gates, supporting founders towards strong, evidence-backed IC decisions
Spotting opportunities early by staying close to market dynamics, emerging tech, and real user behaviour
Communicating clearly and regularly, sharing progress, learnings, trade-offs, and recommendations with founders and the wider studio
Proven experience building 0→1 products or ventures, ideally across multiple disciplines
Driving momentum by subscribing to lean methodologies and an experimental approach, you prioritise speed, learning, and focus over perfection
Comfortable wearing multiple hats (product, design, tech, growth) and knowing when to pull in specialist support
Strong technical mindset, with the ability to build no-code / low-code solutions, prototypes, or proofs of concept to accelerate validation
Commercially curious with the ability to think about ICPs, value propositions, pricing hypotheses, and early GTM alongside product
Communicating your ideas, progress and learnings to the team, seeking feedback when needed.
Comfortable setting expectations and ways of working with founders, and maintaining strong, honest working relationships
Thrive in ambiguity and enjoy solving messy problems
Quick thinking and intuition, someone who can balance creativity with objective data
A passion for creating products people love, caring about product performance is key
The ability to adapt and operate in an ambiguous environment
Comfortable with taking calculated risks and learning fast
Wanting to continuously improve your skills and productivity, challenging yourself when you can
Strong leadership that drives outcomes
Being approachable and optimistic
Not a pure designer or engineer
Not a consultant writing decks from the sidelines
Not a 9–5 role
This role is about building, deciding, testing, and moving. This is a fast-moving venture studio environment where momentum matters and timelines can be intense at key moments
We’re co-founders and early stage investors. We build and fund startups globally.
Founders Factory builds and funds startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and the world’s leading companies. Created by serial entrepreneurs Brent Hoberman CBE and Henry Lane Fox, Founders Factory backs entrepreneurs with capital, operational support from a team of experts, and unrivalled access to leading organisations, including: Aviva, Rio Tinto, Vonovia, Fastweb, Mediobanca, HSBC, Pico Global, Hitachi, The Government of Western Australia, Enterprise Singapore and MSWA. Founders Factory’s Venture Studio co-founds businesses from inception, developing new ideas, technologies and business models into high growth companies. Our Accelerator backs early stage startups across industries and geographies - with a current focus on Fintech, Health, Industrials & Deep Tech. Since 2015, Founders Factory’s 450+ portfolio companies have secured 500+ pilots and commercial contracts with our partners.
Offices: 2 Arundel Street, London, WC2R 3DA, GB
We’re co-founders and early stage investors. We build and fund startups globally.
Founders Factory builds and funds startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and the world’s leading companies. Created by serial entrepreneurs Brent Hoberman CBE and Henry Lane Fox, Founders Factory backs entrepreneurs with capital, operational support from a team of experts, and unrivalled access to leading organisations, including: Aviva, Rio Tinto, Vonovia, Fastweb, Mediobanca, HSBC, Pico Global, Hitachi, The Government of Western Australia, Enterprise Singapore and MSWA. Founders Factory’s Venture Studio co-founds businesses from inception, developing new ideas, technologies and business models into high growth companies. Our Accelerator backs early stage startups across industries and geographies - with a current focus on Fintech, Health, Industrials & Deep Tech. Since 2015, Founders Factory’s 450+ portfolio companies have secured 500+ pilots and commercial contracts with our partners.
Offices: 2 Arundel Street, London, WC2R 3DA, GB
