Hybrid Venture Architect

at Roadrunner Venture Studios

• Job title: Venture Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Albuquerque, United States

About the role

• Venture Architect leading multiple ventures from concept through seed readiness at Roadrunner Venture Studios. Utilizing cross-functional collaboration to ensure company success in deep technology realms.

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Head of Venture Studios, the Venture Architect is the single accountable owner of each new venture’s commercial viability.
• Operate at the intersection of technology, market, and team—taking ideas from zero to seed-ready companies.
• Set strategic direction, lead specialists through a rigorous business building methodology, and make the judgment calls that determine whether a technical innovation becomes an investable company.
• Join a team that moves fast, experiments often, and believes conviction beats consensus.
• Accountable for 2–3+ ventures simultaneously, from concept through seed readiness, within a pod structure.
• Integrate product, technical, commercial, and team efforts to ensure coherence and direction.
• Serve as the primary thought partner to founders and internal leads; the first call when decisions need to be made.

Requirements

• Experienced with 8+ years in a combination of entrepreneurial execution (startups, venture, venture capital, venture studios), top-tier consulting, or operating roles.
• Hands-on, with a bias toward action—you’re willing to roll up your sleeves and do the work.
• Able to manage through others while staying close enough to execution to ensure quality.
• Comfortable being prescriptive and having a strong point of view when needed.
• Skilled at navigating ambiguity and making decisions with imperfect information.
• Capable of working across startups and corporate partners, including engaging incumbents and piloting solutions.
• Strong in both quantitative and qualitative thinking — from market sizing to business model design.
• Financial modeling depth: able to direct, review, and stress-test driver-based financial models, and build from first principles when required.
• Familiar with deep tech domains such as energy, manufacturing, or compute.

Benefits

• We earn trust through fairness, integrity, and consistent delivery.
• We win together, own together, and run together.
• We're building companies that matter—and having a blast doing it.
• Roadrunner Venture Studios sits at a unique intersection of frontier research and real-world deployment.
• We work closely with national labs like Sandia and Los Alamos.