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# Venture Designer (Singapore) at Founders Factory

- **Company:** Founders Factory
- **Location:** Singapore
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/founders-factory/bc268188-d56e-45a7-b927-c20c74240bc2

## 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.

## About Founders Factory

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Founders Factory is a venture studio and startup accelerator that builds and funds early‑stage startups in fintech, health, industrials, and deep tech.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture builder and investor)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom (and offices in New York, Berlin, Milan, Singapore, British Columbia, Perth, Grand Bahama)
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Brent Hoberman, Henry Lane Fox, George Northcott — [foundersfactory.com/about-us/](https://foundersfactory.com/about-us/)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Venture building (studio), startup acceleration, corporate innovation partnerships.
- **Target customers**: Early‑stage founders (pre-seed to seed) and large corporates seeking to co‑build or invest in disruptive ventures.
- **Mission**: “Power founders to go further, faster” and “be the most impactful co‑founder for early stage founders.” — [foundersfactory.com/about-us/](https://foundersfactory.com/about-us/)

## Products & Services
- **Venture Studio**: Co‑founds new companies from scratch, developing ideas, technologies and business models into high‑growth ventures.
- **Accelerator Programs**: Pre‑seed and seed investment programs that provide capital, operational support, and access to corporate partners across fintech, health, industrials, and deep tech.
- **Sector‑Focused Accelerators**:
  - Aviva Fintech Accelerator
  - Rio Tinto Mining Tech Accelerator
  - Northwestern Medicine Healthcare Accelerator
  - MSWA MS & Neurological Care Accelerator
  - HSBC Industrial Innovator Programme
  - Blue Action Accelerator (climate) — [foundersfactory.com/](https://foundersfactory.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Annual revenue: GBP 6.5M — [uk.linkedin.com/company/foundersfactory](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/foundersfactory)
  - Total funding: $26.9M across 6 rounds — [uk.linkedin.com/company/foundersfactory](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/foundersfactory)
  - Portfolio companies: 450+ (as of 2025) — [uk.linkedin.com/company/foundersfactory](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/foundersfactory)
  - Team size: ~60+ operators — [foundersfactory.com/about-us/](https://foundersfactory.com/about-us/)
- **Notable Corporate Partners**: Aviva, Rio Tinto, Vonovia, Fastweb, Mediobanca, HSBC, Pico Global, Hitachi, Government of Western Australia, Enterprise Singapore, MSWA — [foundersfactory.com/about-us/](https://foundersfactory.com/about-us/)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Expansion to 9 countries (including US, Italy, Germany, Australia, Singapore).
  - Rio Tinto committed A$14.4M over three years to back mining tech startups.
  - Portfolio companies have secured 500+ pilots and commercial contracts with corporate partners. — [foundersfactory.com/about-us/](https://foundersfactory.com/about-us/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Corporate access**: Startups get distribution, market intelligence, and potential commercial deals through established corporate partners.
- **Operator‑led team**: 60+ experts (product, engineering, design, data science, growth) provide co‑founder‑level support.
- **Multi‑sector focus**: Dedicated verticals (fintech, health, industrials, deep tech) allow deep domain expertise.
- **Global footprint**: Presence on four continents gives portfolio companies geographic reach and local market insights.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepening corporate partnerships**: Building new sector‑specific accelerators (e.g., climate, mining).
- **Scaling the Venture Studio**: Co‑founding more companies from scratch with exceptional entrepreneurs.
- **Geographic expansion**: Further presence in Asia‑Pacific and North America, as evidenced by offices in Singapore and Chicago.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Power to founders” mindset; values include “suggest solutions not problems”, “be polite, generous and show empathy”, “embrace uncertainty & remain decisive”, “value momentum over perfection” — [foundersfactory.com/about-us/](https://foundersfactory.com/about-us/)
- **Work model**: London HQ with multiple global offices; roles likely hybrid/in‑office, though specific policy varies by location.
- **Opportunities**: Join the operations team (investment, venture design, data science) or directly join one of the 450+ portfolio startups — [foundersfactory.com/join-us/](https://foundersfactory.com/join-us/)
- **Notable perks**: Access to a vast network of founders, investors, and corporate innovators; hands‑on involvement in building startups from scratch.

## Sources
1. [Founders Factory official site](https://foundersfactory.com/)
2. [Founders Factory About Us](https://foundersfactory.com/about-us/)
3. [Founders Factory Careers](https://foundersfactory.com/join-us/)
4. [Founders Factory Team](https://foundersfactory.com/team)
5. [Founders Factory LinkedIn](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/foundersfactory)

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