Venture General Manager

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Koru Full time

We are Koru.
Koru is a first of its kind venture studio funded by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. We partner with OTPP portfolio companies to build and invest in businesses with a clear right to win.
Founded in 2019, our mission is to drive value creation aimed at growing the overall value of OTPP’s portfolio companies by partnering with them to identify, validate, build and oversee new disruptive businesses. We go from 0-1, building ventures that address customer frictions head-on — and we leverage our corporate partnerships to gain unfair advantages in the market.
We offer a unique balance of risk and reward where startup talent can build with the backing of a $250B pension plan and the ability to impact portfolio companies all around the world, explore disruptive new opportunities and share in the upside of every business we put into the market. We promote a truly entrepreneurial mindset and a culture of fearless reinvention.
If you get excited by building innovative products that allow new entrants to disrupt existing industries, enjoy working in a collaborative and dynamic startup environment, have an entrepreneurial background, and have strong startup leadership capabilities, then your place may be with us

**As Venture General Manager you will**:

- Lead cross-functional teams to source, identify, research and rapidly validate new venture concepts
- Identify the optimal path to validate and build new ventures (in-market pilots or POCs, build/buy/partner investigation, building from 0 to 1)
- Build investment cases and generate buy-in for venture investment (capital, resources, and ability to unlock unfair advantage within portfolio company partners)
- Navigate complex stakeholders to get overall buy-in and alignment throughout the venture process (from idea to launch and beyond)
- Build a strong cross-functional venture team culture that fosters psychological safety, a builder-mindset and a culture of rapid experimentation
- Drive strategic, early-stage venture decisions and guide the venture team from 0 to commercial launch
- Effectively guide and define the team through the process of validating and de-risking the venture as you work from opportunity identification through to setting it on a path to product-market-fit
- Define a business and go-to-market strategy that drives toward hitting critical commercialization milestones
- Be scrappy and operate like a founder. We build businesses in small, cross-functional venture teams; this means you’ll need to be able to jump between the strategic and the operational on a regular basis
- Stand up new businesses from 0-1, including defining governance, business models, customer operations, and business operations to support the launch and growth of new businesses.
- Identify, attract and onboard the right talent to take the business forward post launch
- Cross-pollinate good practices and insights between multiple ventures to drive continuous improvement of our Venture building methodology and playbooks.
- Identify opportunities to support our portfolio of launched ventures at critical milestones in their growth path
- Enjoy working in a diverse, dynamic, collaborative, transparent, environment where everyone's ideas and viewpoints are equally valued

**You will bring**:

- 10+ years of significant leadership, as a founder or with senior strategy and operational responsibilities at early stage, high growth, venture-backed or corporate-funded startups.
- Operational excellence in setting up processes that can be scrappy early on, but consider future scale
- A high level of comfort with ambiguity, with a strong background in using data, market research and user research insights to make calculated bets in new spaces
- Ability to gain a deep understanding of any industry and market you are operating in
- Familiarity across all operational aspects of a startup: product, marketing, customer success and support, Business operations (HR, finance/accounting, legal/compliance, IT, and facilities) - with a strong background operating in one or more of these areas
- A track record of building successful startup teams
- A proven track record as an effective player-coach. Your leadership and coaching strengths are enhanced by your desire to both lead and roll up your sleeves to get stuff done.
- Exceptional people management skills to attract, motivate and inspire cross-functional teams.
- Exceptional senior stakeholder management skills across functions and external partners.
- Professional, flexible and effective communication skills that can easily pivot from the team room to the board room.
- Strong skills that foster and promote an open and collaborative environment.
- An ability to embrace and reduce uncertainty through continual validated learning.
- Full P&L ownership and Go To Market strategy including ability to market-size, forecast, and model out a new business
- Experience enabling/unlocking high-performing teams that are seasoned in their fields

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