Venture Architect

About Us:

Sanabil Venture Studio, a partnership between Sanabil Investments and Stryber, merges top-tier talent, seasoned founders, and robust funding to propel startups to unicorn status. Leveraging a blend of industry, technology, and startup expertise, we generate and evaluate visionary ideas, and take them from idea to building and launching MVPs. If an MVP we build proves to be successful, we provide targeted seed funding, ensuring each venture is equipped with the financial foundation to meet its ambitious goals. Beyond early stage development and funding, we provide ongoing support to our portfolio ventures and founders in their pursuit of scaling their startups.

In your role as a Venture Architect - you’ll co-build companies from scratch. Make products with impact. Grow with us. You will co-build new ventures and be responsible for specific workstreams (e.g. operations, finances) on a venture and contribute to strategy, to stakeholder management and team leadership - in close alignment with the venture CEO. Our teams function as small, independent founder teams and you will be the acting CxO. Depending on client needs, you will also co-create a new venture studio or digital unit for an existing business.

What you will do: Venture Work

• Have end-to-end responsibility of specific workstreams during the different phases of the Stryber venture building process, from ideation, to validation, to building and scaling the new venture(s)
• Drive daily venture operations (e.g. get customer feedback, test hypotheses, define investment business cases, outline measurement & reporting frameworks, create partnerships)
• Collaborate on go-to-market, product features, roadmaps with your international startup team from Product, UX/UI Design, Growth and Tech cohorts
• Work on achieving venture objectives and key results to track outcomes and ensure venture progress
• Work with the venture CEO on creating strategic alignment with your all stakeholders, including C-levels and General Partners of the client organisation

Business Dev & IP Creation (outside of venture work)

• Co-create business development throughout investor or client engagements
• Develop intellectual property, thought leadership across a range of emerging biz, tech and design topics

About you
Execution & Analytical experience

• Bachelor’s degree with excellent grades from a top university (or Masters / PhD)
• 3+ years of early-stage experience within different tech start-ups, of which at least one as a founder or higher management position with significant achievements including:
  • extensive knowledge of lean startup and agile methodologies
  • developing biz strategy and planning
• Experience at a venture-funded start-up, top tier strategy consulting firm, venture capital fund is mandatory
• Background in product management, growth, design is a plus
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills
• You are not afraid to get your hands dirty and you have entrepreneurial grit

Additional requirements

• Willingness to travel on a regular basis to work closely with the venture's target audience (primarily GCC, but also globally if needed)
• Fluency in English and Arabic with excellent written and verbal communication skills is mandatory
• Full-time availability (part-time is not possible)
• You are preferably a Saudi national or a resident of Saudi Arabia

What you will get

• A global, dynamic work environment for top talent, including the possibility of office transfers
• Responsibility from day one, including space for your own ideas and initiatives within Stryber
• Mentorship, guidance and individual career-development input from experienced venture builders
• An incredible learning opportunity. You’ll learn & fail fast - typical startup duration is 3 to 10 months
• Work with renowned clients globally, such as in the Middle East, Europe, or South East Asia
• Fame and glory for what you will have built including the opportunity to join spin-off teams
• Competitive compensation package
• Truly entrepreneurial culture including on the "venture ground work" with all stakeholders: users, customers and investors or clients
• Apple equipment (laptop and phone) for your daily work