Junior Venture Builder

What you will do

1. Venture Creation & Validation

        • Source, structure, and evaluate new venture opportunities (market, unit economics, risks)

        • Design and run rapid validation sprints (field pilots, customer testing)

        • Translate hypotheses into measurable experiments and clear go / no-go decisions

2. Venture Building & Execution

        • Launch and operate early-stage pilots on the ground (often in resource-constrained environments)

        • Support day-to-day execution across operations, partnerships, and early sales

        • Rapidly iterate based on data, field feedback, and performance

3. Scaling & Founder Support

        • Prepare ventures for scale: refine unit economics, operating model, and growth plan

        • Support recruitment and onboarding of venture talent

        • Provide targeted support to founders across strategy, fundraising, and operations

4. Portfolio & Resource Management

        • Support multiple ventures in parallel, prioritizing highest-impact opportunities

        • Track performance, synthesize learnings, and report on progress and key decisions

        • Ensure disciplined use of capital and focus on capital-efficient growth

5. Systems & Playbook Development

        • Capture insights from pilots and translate into repeatable venture-building processes

        • Contribute to the Pyramidia Venture Building Playbook (tools, templates, SOPs)

        • Improve speed, quality, and consistency of venture creation across the studio

Who you are

        • 1-4 years of experience in a high-performance environment (e.g., startup, venture building,consulting, operations, or similar)

        • Deeply passionate about Pyramidia’s mission and values

        • Highly entrepreneurial: curious, autonomous, high energy, sleeves rolled up, love to build hands-on from the ground up

        • Analytical and hands-on problem solver: you can think creatively about strategic and operational challenges and don’t take no

           for an answer

        • Resilient in the face of setbacks and failures: you enjoy the daily grind of building early-stage startups

        • A collaborative learner and comfortable with being challenged

        • Experience in the agrifood and / or start-up sector is a plus

Why this role is unique

Working with Pyramidia Ventures provides a rare opportunity to team up with world-class thinkers,entrepreneurs, and founders in launching and building successful climate-smart agtech startups.

This role offers the freedom and thrill of working on an impactful early-stage venture backed by seasoned expertise, investors, and operators in the sector.

How to apply

Send your CV and a short note on why you’re excited about building climate-smart agrifood ventures in Africa to

talent@pyramidiaventures.com with the subject line: “Venture Builder - Pyramidia Ventures.”

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, with a target start date of May 1, 2026.