Head of Venture Building

QAI Ventures

Run QAI's venture-building practice ensuring ventures are investment-ready while coordinating across teams and platforms globally. Leverage deep tech expertise from opportunity sourcing to company creation.

Posted 7/28/2026full-timeArlesheim • 🇨🇭 SwitzerlandLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in deeptech venture-building, including company formation, financing structures, and collaboration with scientific founders. Proven ability to translate advanced research into viable business models and achieve measurable outcomes in technical markets.

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Deeptech Venture-Building ExperienceCompany FormationEarly-Stage Financing StructuringCollaboration With Scientific FoundersGo-To-Market Strategy

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Hard Skills

Company CreationFinancing Structure DesignSAFEsConvertible NotesSPVsCap Table DesignMilestone AchievementExit StrategyOpportunity SourcingVenture-Building Methodology

Soft Skills

Cross-Functional CollaborationCredibility With FoundersCoordination Across TeamsAdaptability Across Time Zones

Industry Keywords

Quantum TechnologiesAdvanced ComputingTechnical MarketsVenture CapitalAPAC Region

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You will run QAI's venture-building practice hands-on: from opportunity sourcing and company creation to the moment a venture is ready for our Investment Committee.
Build companies, set up founding teams, design financing structures, and ensure every case that reaches IC is fund-ready.
Coordinate with fund team, science & technology platform, corporate operations, marketing, and international offices.
Delivery of venture-building methodology developed for APAC.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Demonstrable deeptech venture-building experience.
Proven track record of building deeptech ventures from zero as a founder, co-founder, or venture builder, with verifiable outcomes: companies created, financing rounds closed, milestones achieved, or exits completed.
Hands-on experience structuring early-stage financings: SAFEs, convertible notes, SPVs, cap table design.
Ability to work credibly with scientific founders in quantum technologies, advanced computing, or adjacent deeptech domains, and to translate research into business.
Operating depth in company formation, founding team recruitment, early go-to-market in technical markets.
Comfort working across teams, functions, and time zones through defined coordination points.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Responsibility at QAI sits close to the work: you get a clearly defined domain, make decisions within it, and report transparently.
Coordination happens across teams and offices through defined handoffs, which means clarity about roles and goals matters more here than hierarchy.
What we expect from each other: open and direct dialogue, also when it is uncomfortable.
Psychological safety: mistakes, questions, and uncertainty can be raised without fear.
Respect, especially in disagreement.
No ego games: the overall result counts, not the defense of one's own turf.
Commitments hold, and whoever cannot deliver says so early.
Results matter, not hours or presence.
Engagement is seen and recognized.
And most importantly, we are kind. Humanity and clarity are not a contradiction here.