Job Details
Location:
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Posted:
Feb 23, 2022
Job Description
At Cogo Labs, we build startup companies from scratch. We are a collaborative team of Engineers, Analysts, and Entrepreneurs using innovative tools, big data, and intellectual curiosity to build a platform that spins up successful online businesses, fast.
As an Venture Partner, you will lead the start-up process for new businesses from concept to launch. You will guide research and planning of the business in conjunction with Cogo researchers, defining the launch and growth strategy. You will launch the business by assembling and managing a team to execute the business plan and get it off the ground. Post-launch, you will iterate quickly on refining the business until it’s ready to scale.
This role is highly collaborative with Cogo executive staff, research, engineering, business development, and operations. Your responsibility is to bring the best data and expertise into a new business idea and steer it to success.
What to expect from Cogo Labs :
- Near obsessive use of data to inform business decisions. We believe that efficient growth happens when we make every decision based on solid, well directed analysis
- An extensive community of experts. The “Cogoverse” is filled with successful executives, entrepreneurs, academics, scientists, and engineers. Our collaborative working model ensures you have access to the best people and resources to achieve your goals.
- Unmatched opportunity. We believe in mentoring people to grow as quickly as they can. Today's new graduate hires are tomorrow's leaders. This role will work towards leading our future incubated companies and their ventures
- Flexibility and novelty. Your role will define itself over time, as you find the problems that you are uniquely capable of solving
- A fun, supportive culture. Happy employees are the most successful. We take care of our own, and not just because it is good business
About you :
- You are a strategic planner, working backwards from a long-term vision to develop a multi-dimensional plan to get there,
- You can turn complex analysis into action, working as a team player with our operational teams,
- You are a strong collaborative communicator and can convey complex ideas concisely to all audiences,
- You can lead teams through as they execute from concept to launch. You are unafraid to make strategic decisions that determine the success of the plan,
- You are operationally excellent, supervising operational teams as they progress through a business plan and ensure goals are met,
- You dive deep into subject matter and become fluent in your domain,
- You are comfortable with data, analysis, and technology. You are a thought leader and operational leader in your area of specialty.