Commercial Venture Founder X 2

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.

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**Who are we looking for?**:
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