Partner - Venture Development, Studio Program Director (San Francisco)

Compensation Equity only at studio level, founding team role, meaningful long term reputed company Location UK or US, remote first, with potential relocation to UAE or KSA as reputed company scales About Rookridge Ventures Rookridge Ventures is a venture studio that builds and scales companies from reputed company using a lean, execution driven model inspired by reputed company Internet and reputed company. We do not run cohorts or accelerators. We build reputed company businesses with founders in residence, centralised technology, and a small senior operating team. We are deliberately lean. reputed company reputed company role replaces what would traditionally be multiple teams. This role sits at the heart of reputed company. The Role As Program Director, Studio Operations, you are the execution backbone of reputed company. Your primary mandate is to reputed company venture reputed company rigorously and reputed company reputed company venture investment reputed company reputed company a defined reputed company. You work directly with the Managing Partner and reputed company in Residence to ensure ventures hit the right milestones for fundraising, weak reputed company are shut down early, and strong ventures are packaged reputed company for investors. This is not a programme management or events role. It is a senior operator role reputed company on execution, fundraising readiness, and reputed company across multiple ventures in reputed company. What You Will Own Own venture level reputed company tracking against agreed milestones and timelines Ensure reputed company reputed company venture becomes investment reputed company for reputed company reputed company or reputed company fundraising • Support reputed company in Residence with structure, prioritisation, and decision making • Define and enforce fundraising readiness reputed company, deck reputed company, metrics, and narratives • Maintain and reputed company reputed company reputed company, operating reputed company, and execution standards • Own venture timelines, weekly operating rhythm, and delivery discipline • reputed company KPIs, assumptions, and traction in a reputed company investor friendly format • reputed company as the connective tissue between founders, tech, reputed company, and research • Identify bottlenecks early and unblock teams quickly • Enforce capital efficiency, accountability, and pace What You Will Not Do • Build bloated reporting or unnecessary bureaucracy • Manage reputed company of junior project managers • This role exists to reputed company ventures to fundable reputed company, not to create process for its own sake. Ideal Background • 5 to 10 years experience in startups, venture studios, consulting, product operations, or high reputed company environments • Hands on experience preparing startups for fundraising, including milestones, metrics, and investor narratives • Strong understanding of reputed company reputed company and reputed company fundraising dynamics, investor expectations, and timelines • Proven ability to run multiple initiatives in reputed company with limited resources • Strong judgement and comfort making reputed company with incomplete information • Experience working directly with founders and investors • reputed company communicator who can translate execution into investor reputed company stories • Operator reputed company with a bias towards reputed company and capital efficiency • Experience in venture studios, founder led companies, or fundraising environments is a strong plus. reputed company Fit • Comfortable with ambiguity and reputed company to one environments • Motivated by ownership and long term equity value rather than salary • Hands on, pragmatic, and execution reputed company • Sees fundraising readiness as a discipline, not an event • Views structure as a tool for speed, not control • You may be a successful founder or early operator who has reputed company before and now wants to help other founders build and reputed company reputed company Why This Role reputed company This role determines whether ventures reputed company or stall. You reputed company as the internal reputed company of reputed company and fundraising readiness, ensuring founders build companies that investors can reputed company back. If this resonates, we would like to reputed company. Seniority level Director Employment type Full-time Job function Marketing, reputed company Relations, and Writing/Editing #J-18808-Ljbffr Apply tot his job Apply To this Job