Entrepreneur in Residence

Responsibilities

• Team building - Crack the code for building teams from scratch. We have developed a robust team-building methodology based on our decade of experience doing this across the world, which have resulted in over 500 seed-funded companies to date. Your mission is to build the strongest teams possible. Work with sole founders to help them progress into teams.
• Provide deep and nuanced advice to teams and individuals. Actively manage team breakups and formation.
• Develop and refine EF's team-building frameworks.
• Use EF's historical data to create optimal co-founding teams.
• Ideation - Ensure the teams work on high-potential ideas. We are in a privileged position in being able to shape how our founding teams think about generating and testing their ideas, right at the inception of the company. Your mission is to raise their ambitions and guide the ideas to be as high potential as possible given who the founders are.
• Mentor the teams through the early stages of idea validation and customer development.
• Company building - Advise teams on how to execute at maximum speed. Deliver tactical advice on how to execute at pace. Hold teams accountable to milestones - help benchmark what top tier progress looks like. Use your network to accelerate where relevant.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience as a founder in one or more startups
• Demonstrated knowledge of early-stage startup development and funding of technology companies
• Demonstrated ability to ramp up quickly in understanding the key attributes of technologies, products, markets and teams that lead to successful startups

Qualifications

• A high EQ and enjoy mentoring and developing entrepreneurs
• Driven to solve problems and create real, tangible impact
• A ‘Hands-on’ work ethic - we are looking for people who just get things done and actively seek ownership