Head of Venture Creation

🔥 13 hours ago

🌶️ New Mexico – Remote

🌶️ New Mexico – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

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Roadrunner Venture Studios

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11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

⚡ Energy

🔬 Science

Artificial Intelligence • Energy • Science

Roadrunner Venture Studios is the nation's premier platform for founding and scaling breakthrough ventures in deep technologies. Based in Albuquerque, NM, the studio focuses on transforming deep tech, including quantum science, space tech, energy, advanced manufacturing, and clean tech, into disruptive ventures. It is dedicated to investing in ideas and founders with significant potential to innovate and create impactful technologies. Roadrunner Venture Studios also hosts events like the Roadrunner Technology Forum and has received substantial investment from the New Mexico State Investment Council to support new tech startups.

📋 Description

• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary venture pod teams across the Venture Development Pathway: Identify, Evaluate, Build, and Scale • Develop venture theses around industry problems and identify talent and technologies for new ventures • Assemble deal teams, conduct due diligence, and support investment decisions • Lead venture pods through company creation using RRVS’s DVFO methodology, Venture Architects, and Platform capabilities • Support portfolio companies in securing customer pilots, corporate investment, and commercial offtake • Establish priorities and sequencing across venture pods and engage Studio and Fund resources at each stage • Work directly with founders, scientists, and engineers to turn breakthrough technologies into products and companies • Define product, customer, market, business model, and commercialization strategies • Drive customer discovery, product development, pilots, partnerships, and early commercial traction • Help build founding teams and recruit executives and technical leaders • Develop financing strategies and prepare companies to raise venture, strategic, and non-dilutive capital • Step into hands-on operating roles, including interim CEO responsibilities, when needed • Serve as an experienced operator and thought partner to founders • Serve as an Operating Advisor or Board Member for portfolio companies • Develop repeatable frameworks for building deep-tech companies • Mentor Venture Architects and venture creation team members • Evaluate technologies, markets, founders, and new venture opportunities • Raise the operating standard across Roadrunner’s portfolio of emerging companies

🎯 Requirements

• Repeated experience building deep-tech companies from zero to one • Built and operated at least one venture-backed deep-tech company from 0→1, preferably multiple, in advanced energy, materials, manufacturing, or compute • Served as a founder, CEO, or senior operating executive with direct responsibility for product, commercialization, team building, and company growth • Raised or played a central leadership role in raising $10M+ in venture capital, ideally across multiple institutional rounds • Strong product-building capability, translating complex science and technology into products with real customer demand • Experience working directly with scientists and engineers to commercialize technically complex technologies • Experience with non-dilutive funding, government programs, or technologies originating from national labs, universities, or research institutions • Exceptional judgment, urgency, and ability to build and make decisions in highly ambiguous environments • Based in—or willing to spend significant time in—New Mexico

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time employment • Executive in Residence path for an accomplished deep-tech founder or executive • Opportunity to build inside Roadrunner Venture Studios for others while determining what to build or lead next • Potential to serve as an Operating Advisor or Board Member for portfolio companies over the long term