[Hiring] Senior Venture Builder @BFA Global

Role Description

The Senior Venture Builder will play a critical role in helping DAWN's portfolio of jobtech and digital platforms grow, strengthen their business models, and expand their capacity to create dignified, sustainable and inclusive work opportunities for financially disadvantaged youth.

This role combines hands-on venture building with strategic advisory, experimentation, technical assistance, and ecosystem engagement. The Senior Venture Builder will work directly with exceptional founders and leadership teams to:

• Diagnose constraints
• Identify growth opportunities
• Design and execute targeted interventions
• Translate business growth into measurable transition-to-work outcomes

This is a highly hands-on role. The Senior Venture Builder will be expected to:

• Advise companies
• Work alongside founders to solve hard problems
• Test solutions
• Analyze data
• Build and launch experiments
• Drive implementation and execution

This role will report to the Head of Venture Building and work closely with the Investment Lead, other Venture Builders, BFA specialists, consortium partners, and external experts.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant professional experience, including significant experience in venture building, startups, accelerators, management consulting, venture capital, product management, innovation, or a fast-growing technology company.
• Demonstrated experience working directly with startup founders and senior leadership teams to solve complex business and growth challenges.
• Strong experience supporting startups in Nigeria or other emerging markets.
• Demonstrated experience taking companies or products through experimentation, validation, growth, or scale.
• Strong understanding of startup business models, unit economics, growth strategy, product development, operations, and fundraising.
• Experience designing and executing MVPs, pilots, experiments, and go-to-market strategies.
• Expertise in lean product management, including design sprints, value proposition design, hypothesis-driven experimentation, customer discovery, and roadmap prioritization.
• Strong quantitative and analytical capability, including the ability to conduct deep dives into company and customer data and translate findings into action.
• Experience supporting companies to raise capital or direct experience in startup investing would be advantageous.
• Strong networks across the startup, investor, technology, or innovation ecosystem.
• Experience mentoring founders, Venture Builders, analysts, or other junior team members.
• Strong project management and execution capability, with the ability to manage several complex engagements simultaneously.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, relationship-building, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial, highly collaborative, and geographically distributed environment.
• Demonstrated experience in jobtech, marketplaces, digital platforms, future of work, fintech, e-commerce, or other technology-enabled business models is highly desirable.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Technology, Entrepreneurship, or a related field.
• An MBA, Master's degree, or other relevant advanced qualification is an advantage, but equivalent practical startup and venture-building experience will be strongly considered.

Benefits

• Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

Company Description

BFA Global is an impact innovation firm that combines research, advisory, venture building, and investment expertise to build a more inclusive, equitable, and resilient future for underserved people and the planet.

We partner with leading public, private, and philanthropic organizations, both global and local, to catalyze innovation ecosystems for impact across emerging markets.