Venture Builder

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom Nesta Full time

**We are recruiting for a Venture Builder to join Nesta’s Mission Studio**

Mission Studio is creating the future of mission-driven tech startups. We're tackling the UK's toughest social challenges - from net zero to obesity - by building commercially successful businesses to address them. After two years of operating with a partner we are bringing the studio in-house, building a dynamic team, and entering an exciting phase of growth.

As a Venture Builder you’ll be a driving force of building businesses from scratch. You will create bold concepts and ideas, and rigorously test, validate and build the best of them at speed.

**Who You Are**:

- Highly creative and a do-er at heart, you're passionate about turning bold ideas into tangible solutions that can improve lives.
- You get how startups operate and scale from 0 to 1, and have a proven track record of designing and building successful ventures within a studio environment
- Have exceptional communication and interpersonal skills. You love working with multiple stakeholders, and are able to reconcile conflicting views quickly but with care.
- Real world validation of concepts drives you. You know your way around no code / low code, can throw up a landing page, and love data, metrics and feedback.
- Experience working with UX/UI principles, design software, and within product teams
- You thrive in grey areas, look at ambiguity as an opportunity, and possess plenty of entrepreneurial grit
- Experience working with a range of different products and industries, for example D2C and B2B startups
- You're not just looking for a job; you're on a mission to make a difference, to challenge the status quo, and to innovate for social good.

**What You'll Do**:

- Work closely with the world-class Mission Teams at Nesta to hypothesise solutions to complex social challenges
- Design multiple concepts, test and validate them, and develop strong commercial foundations for these solutions working alongside the wider Mission Studio team of successful entrepreneurs and builders
- Lead the design process, from ideation to MVP, ensuring our solutions are user-centric, impactful, and commercially viable.
- Embrace the startup spirit, iterating fast and learning faster, all while keeping our mission at the heart of everything you design.
- Create business plans and models to design ventures not just for impact but huge commercial success
- Be a core member of our initial team, helping build and shape the studio and our approach to venture design and building overall
- This is your canvas. Paint big. Be the creative force behind our next-gen startups, designing solutions that are not just viable, but vital

**‍ What we offer**:

- Location: At least 2 days a week at our Thames-side, Blackfriars office in London with the freedom to work remotely on other days.
- Perks: Competitive salary, between £65k - £80k depending on experience, and a benefits package that cares for you beyond the office. The benefits include private medical insurance, dental insurance, the ability to buy and sell annual leave, eyecare vouchers and more
- Start Date: ASAP
- Term: Permanent
- Who You'll Report To: Director, Mission Studio.

Interviews will take place on an ongoing basis.

**About Nesta**

We are Nesta, the UK’s innovation agency for social good. We design, test and scale solutions to society’s biggest problems. Our three missions are to give every child a fair start, help people live healthy lives, and create a sustainable future where the economy works for both people and the planet.

For over 20 years, we have worked to support, encourage and inspire innovation. We work in three roles: as an innovation partner working with frontline organisations to design and test new solutions, as a venture builder supporting new and early stage businesses, and as a system shaper creating the conditions for innovation.

Harnessing the rigour of science and the creativity of design, we work relentlessly to change millions of lives for the better.

**At Nesta, we believe that a diverse workforce leads to an organisation that is more innovative, more creative and gets better results.**

We want our workforce to represent the diversity of the people and communities we serve. We also want our workplace to be one where different experiences, expertise and perspectives are valued, and where everyone is encouraged to grow and develop.

We recognise the importance of a good balance between work and home life, so we do everything we can to accommodate flexible working, including working from home, compressed or part-time hours, job shares and other arrangements.

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