Venture Developer

Lightcone Capital

Venture Developer analyzing market opportunities for new digital-first companies in Germany. Leading market strategy and product iteration while collaborating with founding partners.

Posted 8/2/2026full-timeBerlin • 🇩🇪 GermanyMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in market opportunity discovery, go-to-market strategy development, and financial modeling for digital-first companies. Capable of leading initiatives with a high-ownership mindset while effectively measuring and analyzing key performance indicators.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Market Opportunity DiscoveryGo-To-Market Strategy DevelopmentFinancial ModelingKPI Measurement and AnalysisLeadership in High-Pressure Situations

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Hard Skills

Market Size EstimationValue Proposition DefinitionUnit Economics AnalysisMinimum Lovable Product IterationData Analysis and Cleaning

Soft Skills

Bias for ActionPragmatismCourage Under PressureOptimismCandid Feedback

Industry Keywords

Digital-First CompaniesHigh-Margin Business ModelsCustomer Pain PointsScaling LeversEvidence-Driven Approach

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Discover market opportunities, Jobs To Be Done, customer pain points, and business models for new high-margin, digital-first companies.
Determine which problems we're solving, for whom, why, and estimate the market size.
Define the value proposition, finalize the go-to-market strategy, roadmap, and financial model.
Include unit economics, scaling levers, and define what success looks like in 1–3 years.
Launch in Germany (and potentially later across the EU).
Iterate on the Minimum Lovable Product/Service (MLP/S).
Measure the KPIs that matter.
Lead as an interim founder until we hire external leadership.
Help recruit.
Step in to support existing ventures when needed. Rinse and repeat.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bias for action.
Move with urgency and focus.
Be pragmatic: advance when risks are low and unblock yourself quickly by finding answers and deciding fast.
Understand one-way-door vs. revolving-door decisions.
Courage under pressure.
Want a high-ownership role and be willing to get hands dirty.
Execute the full cycle from initial idea triage, discovery, testing, and analysis to pitching your recommendations to the Founding Partners.
No task is beneath you — you do what is required.
Demonstrate a serious get-things-done attitude and an "act now, ask questions later" approach when appropriate.
Strong opinions, loosely held.
Love numbers and back everything with data.
Research new topics and track KPIs; be prepared to manually clean, crunch, and enrich data to support an evidence-driven approach.
Optimism as an operating principle.
Maintain a relatively high baseline level of positivity.
Handle high-pressure situations with timely, composed, and candid responses.
Seek and offer candid feedback. People want to work with you again and again.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Work directly with the Founding Partners who have a track record of three exits and eight companies to date.
Low to no bureaucracy; there's one additional EIR.
Accelerate your personal and career growth.