[Hiring] Head of Venture Creation @Roadrunner Venture Studio

Role Description

Roadrunner Venture Studios is seeking an accomplished deep-tech company builder to join us as Head of Venture Creation leading Venture Creation. The Head of Venture Creation will join Roadrunner full time and help lead our venture creation platform.

In either capacity, you will lead Roadrunner's venture pod teams and founders to guide the creation of new companies across:

• Product
• Engineering
• Talent
• Commercialization
• Capital formation
• Non-dilutive funding

What You'll Do

• Lead Venture Pods From Thesis to Scale
  • Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary venture pod teams across RRVS’s Venture Development Pathway: Identify, Evaluate, Build, and Scale.
  • Identify: Develop venture theses around industry problems and identify the talent and technologies that can form the basis of new ventures.
  • Evaluate: Help assemble the deal team, conduct due diligence, and support investment decisions on opportunities moving through the pipeline.
  • Build: Lead the venture pod through company creation, leveraging RRVS’s DVFO methodology, Venture Architects, and Platform capabilities to build the company from 0→1.
  • Scale: Support portfolio companies in securing customer pilots, corporate investment, and commercial offtake to advance commercialization and scale.
  • Establish priorities and sequencing across the venture pod and ensure the right Studio and Fund resources are engaged at each stage of the Venture Development Pathway.
• Do the Work of Building the Company
  • Work directly with founders, scientists, and engineers to turn breakthrough technologies into products and companies.
  • Define the product, customer, market, business model, and commercialization strategy needed to build a scalable venture.
  • Drive customer discovery, product development, pilots, partnerships, and early commercial traction.
  • Help build the founding team and recruit the executives and technical leaders required to scale.
  • Develop the financing strategy and prepare founders and companies to raise venture, strategic, and non-dilutive capital.
  • Step into hands-on operating roles, including interim CEO responsibilities, when needed to move a company forward.
• Stay Engaged as Companies Scale
  • Serve as an experienced operator and thought partner to founders as their companies develop.
  • Serve as an Operating Advisor or Board Member for our companies over the long term.
  • Bring lessons and pattern recognition from across the portfolio back into Roadrunner’s venture creation model and teams.
• Strengthen Roadrunner's Venture Creation Platform
  • Develop repeatable approaches and frameworks for building deep-tech companies.
  • Bring founder-level judgment and pattern recognition into venture selection and company formation.
  • Mentor Venture Architects and other members of Roadrunner's venture creation teams.
  • Help evaluate technologies, markets, founders, and new venture opportunities.
  • Raise the operating standard across Roadrunner's portfolio of emerging companies.

Qualifications

• Repeated experience building deep-tech companies from zero to one.
• Experience working directly with scientists and engineers to commercialize technically complex technologies.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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 with non-dilutive funding, government programs, or technologies originating from national labs, universities, or research institutions.