Roadrunner Venture Studios

Analyst

• Build and maintain bottom-up financial models for new venture concepts, including revenue models, cost structures, and capital requirements
• Develop unit economics, pricing strategies, and margin profiles across a range of deep-tech business models
• Conduct scenario analyses and sensitivity modeling to evaluate risk, upside, and capital efficiency
• Translate technical milestones into financial implications (cost to scale, time to commercialization, capital intensity)
• Support investment decisions through clear, data-driven financial outputs and structured analysis
• Support synthesis of market dynamics into quantifiable inputs for financial models
• Identify commercialization pathways and map them to revenue timing and scaling assumptions
• Engage potential customers to validate willingness to pay and demand drivers, feeding into model assumptions
• Analyze competitive landscapes through an economic lens (cost position, pricing power, defensibility)
• Partner with Founders-in-Residence and studio leadership to translate ideas into financially viable businesses
• Contribute to business cases and investment memos grounded in rigorous financial logic
• Support development of go-to-market strategies informed by unit economics and capital efficiency
• Assist in building pitch decks and fundraising materials, with a focus on financial clarity
• Help build and refine repeatable financial modeling frameworks for venture creation
• Support development of assumptions libraries, benchmarks, and modeling best practices
• Coordinate with product, engineering, and finance teams to ensure alignment between technical development and financial outcomes
• Provide structured economic analysis to support internal decision-making

Analyst, Venture Creation

Recruitment

• Talent map technical & business leaders; build target lists by company, lab, and research lineage.
• Market map emerging sub-sectors; track who’s building what, where, and why it matters.
• Source founders, founding hires, and SMEs across universities, national labs, open-source communities, and stealth startups.
• Assess signal (not hype): translate patents, papers and traction into action
• Engage founders (technical and commercial) with thoughtful outreach, curiosity, and follow-through.
• Organize our Pipeline: keep Sheets/Airtable/ATS records crisp, tagged, and searchable; maintain warm-lists.
• Champion the brand: show up as Roadrunner in online communities, events, and intros—leave people impressed.

Sourcing Recruiter – Deep Tech

Architect

• Reporting to the Head of Venture Studios, the Venture Architect is the single accountable owner of each new venture’s commercial viability.
• Operate at the intersection of technology, market, and team—taking ideas from zero to seed-ready companies.
• Set strategic direction, lead specialists through a rigorous business building methodology, and make the judgment calls that determine whether a technical innovation becomes an investable company.
• Join a team that moves fast, experiments often, and believes conviction beats consensus.
• Accountable for 2–3+ ventures simultaneously, from concept through seed readiness, within a pod structure.
• Integrate product, technical, commercial, and team efforts to ensure coherence and direction.
• Serve as the primary thought partner to founders and internal leads; the first call when decisions need to be made.