MANAGING DIRECTOR

Overview

The decision of 'what problem to work on' might be the most mission critical part of the entrepreneurial journey, and it's essential that founders are solving meaningful, big problems, at the right time. That's where you come in. We're looking for a Managing Director of Incubation to join our team of authentic, ambitious, smart, nice people and help us build the next generation of great venture backed startups. You'll have the opportunity to build a world-class Venture Firm from the ground up on day 1. You'll build and lead a team to find white space in big markets, validate those big ideas in the marketplace with customers, assist with the right product and go to market strategy, and deliver the 'why' and the 'how' for a company – ultimately driving value for our founders and the Fund. Lastly, you'll play a crucial role in 7th Floor Venture's own growth by helping to build out your own team as part of our growing fund. Most importantly, you'll help build a B2B SaaS community and ecosystem that is truly inclusive, diverse, and supportive of founders.

The Team

7th Floor Ventures is a venture capital firm and incubator focused on building and financing innovative products and services that solve for old problems using emerging technology to make the world a better place to live for generations to come. This extends to the people we work with. When you join 7th Floor ventures, you’ll join a respectful, inclusive team that you can trust, ready to collaborate and support you at any given moment. We are unapologetically ourselves, self-aware and act with complete honesty and integrity. We’re open to learning, to different and new ideas, to feedback, and are constantly looking to improve. We work hard and smart, and spend the large majority of our time feeling challenged and inspired by each other. At 7th Floor Ventures, you’ll work both autonomously and collaboratively, with flexible /remote location and hours, enjoy great benefits, fund upside and unlimited vacation, and when possible, bond with the team during our epic offsite adventures.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Finding the Next Big Thing: Lead a team of researchers, associates, industry professionals, and Forum’s community to find the best, biggest ideas for Venture Scale companies.
• Validating Markets: Define and improve validation practices, testing ideas with an eye on finding a solution that the market wants, and will pay for.
• Creating Business Models: Uncover the right path forward – the best business models to unlock value for each new venture.
• Building Out a Team: Work with our Talent Acquisition Manager to hire the best people for your team, leveraging existing processes and culture to ensure a great team experience.
• Making it Equitable: Ensure that diversity, equity and inclusion are at the center of your team building, idea generation and validation, and business modeling.
• Making it Meaningful: You tell us! We fund and build different companies and projects, across a variety of important missions. This is your opportunity, where will you take it?

What You’ll Need

• 8+ years of startup ecosystem experience, preferably in VC, a Venture Studio, an early-stage startup, or a growing technology company
• Proven ability to work with, and validate, early stage technology markets at the company creation stage
• Strong experience in researching and validating technology companies ideas, markets and models at the early stage
• An entrepreneurial mindset
• A high integrity, a strong work ethic and takes a lot of pride in their work
• Relationships in Venture Capital and tech, and/or a willingness to network and build up your personal brand in the industry

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