Manager, Venture Builder - Venture Studio

130 5th Ave (22130), United States of America, New York, New York

Who we’re looking for

• We seek an entrepreneurial and curious venture builder to join our Ventures team to help unleash the power of early stage investments and company incubation. In this capacity, you will have the unique opportunity to work with senior leadership across Capital One, along with external entrepreneurs and investors, to identify, support and launch a series of new, strategically relevant, high potential technology businesses.

• This person must possess a passion for building new businesses, along with the curiosity, vision, optimism, empathy, and rigorous strategic mindset required to assess, shape, and support emerging startups. Previous experience as a founder and/or early stage startup investor or early employee is critical. Experience operating within large enterprises to drive meaningful strategies would be highly beneficial.

• This team member is humble, genuine, strategic, articulate, and professional. S/he possesses the deep technical understanding and versatility to nimbly leap from the nuances of competitive landscape to deep technical topics, with the fearlessness to engage comfortably with the most senior leaders or leading startups, investment firms, or Capital One.

The role

• What you’ll do:

  • Work with the Ventures team, Capital One leadership, and startup ecosystem to identify the most promising new opportunities and problem statements to seed new venture explorations and support newly launched tech ventures.

  • Partner effectively with a variety of internal and external collaborators to steer and shape nascent business ventures to contribute to our financial and strategic goals.

  • Conduct the research, develop the strategic pitch and articulate the shape of a new venture, partnership or other structure to help Capital One to engage deeply with the startup ecosystem.

  • Work with startups to help develop their business and products so they can be easily integrated and adopted by their customers, taking a customer first approach and considering the technical hurdles of integrating into enterprise tech platforms.

  • Partner across the Ventures team to develop the best deal, contract or term agreement to both help Capital One and your investments succeed.

• Responsibilities include:

  • Strategic Leadership:
    Develop strong relationships with Capital One business and technology leaders. Understand their strategic priorities, challenges and needs and serve as a subject matter expert and thought leader. Work with the investment team to surface high potential investment and incubation opportunities.

  • Diligence & Steering:
    Leverage your understanding of technology, business models, and emerging trends to evaluate potential investments and direct startups in directions that would create the most shared value.

  • Investing:
    Collaborate with COV investment team members to identify, vet, and execute venture investment transactions. Establish the new venture incubator as a feeder to produce promising new ventures in which Capital One should invest.

  • COV Community Building:
    Engage with the startup ecosystem to build mutually beneficial relationships with promising startups and investors. Cultivate and support the entrepreneurial community around Capital One.

Qualities of Potential Hire include:

• Significant experience as an entrepreneur, software engineer and/or investor in one or more of the following domains:
  Fintech, Enterprise, Data, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber, Identity.

• Passion for working with startups and patience for working with large enterprises.

• Hunger to learn about and understand complex technology and business problems, and experience developing and evaluating new business strategies.

• Experience writing software and evaluating the credibility and effectiveness of code of others.

• Commitment to helping make new things happen, and helping your ventures get escape velocity. Having an idea is easy, funding it is harder, making it work and getting to product market fit is an astronomical feat. We want astronauts of enterprise technologies.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.

• At least 3 years of professional…