Venture Partner, MEC
Core
Provide hands-on commercial leadership across a portfolio of emerging ventures, assessing opportunities, validating markets, shaping commercial strategy, and building teams to turn university research into investable companies.
Role type
Senior Manager 1 Venture Partner (Venture Studio)
Builds
Emerging ventures based on world-class University research
Domain
University research commercialization / Deep technology / Venture building
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
commercial strategy, market validation, team formation, governance, strategic oversight, stakeholder management, ambiguity navigation, evidence-based decision making
Preferred skills
venture building, venture studios, startups, scale-ups, deep technology, investment, venture capital, fundraising, sales and revenue growth, commercial partnerships, deal-making, innovation strategy
Technologies
N/A
Responsibilities
Assess emerging research and technologies to identify venture-scale opportunities; Help build and progress ventures through customer discovery and business model development; Provide commercial leadership across multiple ventures; Identify and support commercial founders and executives; Act as a director on portfolio companies contributing to governance; Contribute to the development of the Venture Studio's operating model