Venture Lead

Known for building and scaling new ventures on behalf of some of the world's biggest enterprise clients, from corporates to universities, this is a global innovation powerhouse. The team delivers world-class product innovation, identifies and launches new business concepts by leveraging corporate assets, entrepreneurial talent, and partnerships that give businesses a distinctive edge, enabling them to think and operate more like startups from within.

Six months into a major UK bank's venture programme, the first three ventures built inside it all secured further funding. A second batch kicks off in October, centred on the bank's mortgages and consumer lending business. Three new venture teams are being spun up to build them, and each needs someone to run it: you'd be the entrepreneurial owner of one of those ventures.

The Role

You’ll lead a team of around four: a designer, an engineer, a researcher, and a business unit representative from the bank, framing the opportunity, running customer and market exploration, testing concepts with rapid prototyping and live ad experiments, and building the commercial case that earns each venture its next round of funding.

You own the client relationship directly, running daily stand-ups and managing interactions with C-suite stakeholders. The second half of the job is teaching: coaching the bank's own people - many with no innovation background - to eventually run the process without you.

Four venture leads are already in place, all reporting to the same lead. You'd run your team independently, with no hierarchy among the three new hires.

The Package

£75,000 - £90,000

Hybrid working

Monthly wellness budget

Private health insurance, pension, life insurance

Cycle-to-work scheme and home office setup support

Seasonal parties, monthly socials

Access to the firm's global network of startups and early-stage companies

The Person

You have 6+ years across venture building, VC, corporate innovation, or a startup founding team - a genuine entrepreneurial track record, not a corporate or agency one. You're fluent in lean startup methods and comfortable leading strategy, research and prototyping without personally being the designer or engineer.

You can hold your own with senior stakeholders inside a large organisation, and you enjoy coaching a small cross-functional team. A consumer or B2C background is particularly relevant given the mortgages and lending focus.

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All applicants will be considered without regard to race, nationality, religious persuasion, sexual orientation, sex, marital or parental status, physical ability, gender, or age.