Venture Architect
Roadrunner Venture Studios
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Albuquerque • New Mexico • United States
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About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- Experienced with 8+ years in a combination of entrepreneurial execution (startups, venture, venture capital, venture studios), top-tier consulting, or operating roles.
- Hands-on, with a bias toward action—you’re willing to roll up your sleeves and do the work.
- Able to manage through others while staying close enough to execution to ensure quality.
- Comfortable being prescriptive and having a strong point of view when needed.
- Skilled at navigating ambiguity and making decisions with imperfect information.
- Capable of working across startups and corporate partners, including engaging incumbents and piloting solutions.
- Strong in both quantitative and qualitative thinking — from market sizing to business model design.
- Financial modeling depth: able to direct, review, and stress-test driver-based financial models, and build from first principles when required.
- Familiar with deep tech domains such as energy, manufacturing, or compute.
Benefits
- We earn trust through fairness, integrity, and consistent delivery.
- We win together, own together, and run together.
- We're building companies that matter—and having a blast doing it.
- Roadrunner Venture Studios sits at a unique intersection of frontier research and real-world deployment.
- We work closely with national labs like Sandia and Los Alamos.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
financial modelingbusiness model designquantitative thinkingqualitative thinkingentrepreneurial executionventure capitalventure studiosconsultingstartupstechnical innovation
Soft Skills
leadershipdecision makingnavigating ambiguitystrategic directionteam managementcommunicationproblem solvingaction-orientedthought partnershipprescriptive thinking