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Location: Remote within the United States
Travel: 25%
Alloy Partners is a venture builder with a bold thesis: we believe transformative companies can be built and scaled in partnership with corporations and entrepreneurs. By launching new technology startups alongside established organizations, we unlock growth and innovation that addresses some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Venture building, in our view, is a powerful force for change—and the world needs more new companies to tackle complex global issues head-on.
Founded in 2020, our Venture Build Team is trusted to help our partners get started on their venture building journey, develop an enduring mechanism for venture creation, manage organizational tension, create advantage for the companies they are launching with us, increase the odds of startup success, and secure additional resources and funding. The Venture Build team sits at the intersection of brand new venture backable startup ideas, and centuries-old legacy institutions and companies. We have a passion for the energy and creativity that only startups can create, as well as an admiration for the scope, scale, and capabilities of our partners.
As a Venture Builder, you will identify, research, validate and advance opportunities to launch startups with our partners by conducting comprehensive market research, testing critical assumptions, and effectively communicating their findings. You excel in distilling complex research into easily digestible and actionable deliverables that provide insightful and useful guidance. Through a combination of research and analysis, you will create partner-ready materials that contribute to the advancement of the work plan.
As we collaborate with our partners to identify and pursue venture opportunities, we often engage with external talent on a project basis to meet critical deadlines and deliverables. We're actively building a pipeline of exceptional contractors in the fields of venture building who can contribute to high-impact projects as needed.
Interested in Collaborating with Us?
If you'd like to be considered for contract opportunities with Alloy Partners, we encourage you to submit an application. Our Venture Build team will review your background and reach out for an exploratory conversation if there’s a potential fit for an upcoming project.
Venture Build Contractor Responsibilities:
- Serve as a key member of the Venture Build team to identify new startup and studio opportunities in alignment with partner’s strategic plans
- Research markets and new business opportunities, test business models against uncovered jobs to be done, develop business models, and do due diligence on our assumptions to validate or pivot those models.
- Participate in problem definition, primary and secondary research, and solution development through structured frameworks
- Ideate and test new B2B SaaS concepts through testing applicable business models to the given problem statement
- Analyze and interpret research findings, transforming them into actionable insights that align with the goals of our partners
- Effectively communicate research outcomes and insights by developing talk tracks, creating informative analysis and presentation materials, and incorporating feedback to enhance material quality
- Analyze and interpret research findings to create a logical narrative that aligns with themes
- Engage in program management, ensuring clear communication and attention to detail within the team and upholding transparency regarding daily activities
Opportunity to participate in Alloy Partner’s Sprint Week process, which seeks to distill the first 6-months of a startup’s life into a week, culminating in a pitch day to make a launch and investment decision quickly. During that week you will work as a team member to further validate the business model through customer and market research, establishing a price-point and go-to-market strategy, which are informed by product roadmap and headcount assumptions, and developing a pro forma financial model for the first year of the startup’s life to determine funding needs; you will work alongside team members who create a brand identity, user-validated click-through models of the product,
Requirements
- BS/BA required, MBA and/or advanced degree strongly preferred
- Minimum 3 years of work experience preferably in venture capital, management consulting or corporate innovation
- Venture and startup experience a strong plus
- Passion for working with startups and patience for working with large enterprises
- Executive presence, a strategic mind, and high business acumen
- Comfort with ambiguity and working at a fast and demanding pace, a high bar for excellence, and motivation to deliver exceptional work consistently
- Ability to iterate and execute regardless of industry or market
- Outstanding communication skills both verbal and written with the ability to adapt style based on audience
- Demonstrated EQ and dynamic communication skills needed to quickly build trusting collaborative relationships and instill confidence in their work with all stakeholders
- Advanced PowerPoint/Google Slides/Keynote skills
- Proficient with AI tools. Experience with Claude or Perplexity a plus
- Self-starter who can thrive in an unstructured and collaborative team environment
- Ability to travel (up to 25%)
Benefits
- A remote first culture. Work from anywhere in the continental United States
- A collaborative, entrepreneurial environment with a proven venture studio playbook
- The opportunity to create, build and grow innovative products
- This is a 1099 opportunity, no benefits are available to contractors
