Venture Builder

Pyramidia

Africa’s food systems need to be radically transformed to feed a growing population while tackling climate challenges. At the same time, Africa also has massive potential to be a world leader in climate smart food systems. The mission of Pyramidia Ventures is to build an ecosystem of ventures at the nexus of agrifoodtech and climate action. As a venture studio, Pyramidia ideates, launches and scales start ups, from zero to one. Pyramidia is looking for a Venture Builder to join the team and help realise its mission.

The role

As a Venture Builder, your primary responsibility is to move ventures through our funnel from ideation to scale up. You will work in a highly agile and entrepreneurial manner, at one or more ventures at the same time, in close cooperation with the broader Pyramidia team and at a later stage with Venture Co-Founders. You will be involved in different stages of our funnel: ideating, researching and assessing new ideas, piloting promising models on the ground for early validation, starting, iterating and ramping up small-scale operations, and once a Co-Founder is on board, supporting them with scale up. This position will be based in Nairobi, Kenya  with occasional travel across the country and region.

You will

·      Cook up new ideas: You think out of the box, dream about potential new business models, stay abreast of sector and product developments and propose new venture ideas to the team

·      Get things done: You have a strong bias towards action and results, do not hesitate to get your feet on the ground and your hands dirty, and support a culture of high velocity venture building

·      Fail fast, fail often, learn and repeat: You optimize for speed of learning managing “burn vs learn”. You design and rapidly test new ideas in sprints, take risks, iterate and incorporate learnings quickly

·      Balance 30,000 and 10 feet views: You can think big picture impact and strategic business case drivers, but are also a data lover and can prepare detailed business cases to support internal data-driven decision making

·      Lead small scale operations: When ventures move to small scale operations, you will hire first employees, implement basic processes, drive and track progress against targets, and if venture is successful, support recruiting a CEO / Co-Founder

·      Support co-founders of ventures: Depending on your functional area of expertise, you will provide dynamic support to co-founders of Pyramidia’s venture portfolio in specific support areas such as fundraising, product management, finance & accounting, M&E

·      Continuously improve the Venture Building Process: You consolidate learnings to build out core venture studio repeatable processes, continuously improving on our “serial entrepreneurship on steroids”

You are

·      Deeply passionate about Pyramidia’s mission and strongly aligned with Pyramidia’s values

·      Highly entrepreneurial: curious, autonomous, high energy, sleeves rolled up, have 2+ years of experience in a fast-growing startup

·      Obsessed with impact: social, environmental and economical, all at the same time

·      Both an analytical and hands-on problem solver: you can think creatively about challenges and don’t take no for an answer

·      Comfortable self-managing multiple pilots and priorities and operating in a lean, resource-constrained start-up environment

·      Experienced in the agrifood / climate-tech sector (highly preferred)

·      A holder of a Bachelor’s degree

To apply, please submit via Apply Now Button

·      Your CV

·      Brief cover letter explaining your interest in applying for this role and for joining Pyramidia

Applications are received on a rolling basis.