Entrepreneur In Residence

About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced entrepreneur to join as EIR at Leap. The EIR will contribute their expertise to the organization while exploring new ventures or scaling / collaborating on current projects.

The charter for this role will include:

• Identify, validate, and launch new business opportunities within target categories. Working on transformation projects that will unlock the next phase of growth for the company. You will do multiple Strategize - Build - Operate - Transfer projects in a year.
• Working closely with Founders and Business leaders in solving key problems. You will act as a consultant to help multiple business lines and plug any gaps needed for the business to succeed.
• Collaborate across multiple central teams including functional specialists and business category teams to ensure coherence.
• Develop and execute strategies to grow product categories, ensuring market fit and scalability.
• Manage innovation and product development programs to align with category goals.
• Work on open ended projects such as market research, opportunity sizing, user research, identifying M&A opportunities.
• Do whatever else is critical for the business to win.

Ideal Persona would:

• 5-8 years of proven experience as a founder, category manager, or Program Manager in high-growth businesses.
• Experience in a high growth startup, ideally exposed to the 0-1 and 1-100 journeys.
• Have experience with 0 -> 1 phase of company building (rapid experimentation, hypothesis testing, MVP, user research).
• Have experience with 1->100 phases of company building (process design, hiring, team management, scaling complexities).
• Have great stakeholder management skills and be extremely influential.
• Be a ninja at building alignment by influence (not by authority).
• Have strong first principle thinking, ability to navigate from ambiguity to clarity, should ask the right questions and get to answers fast.
• Be well networked and know how to learn fast from the right people by asking the right questions.