Entrepreneur in Residence - New Categories

Job Description

About the Role: We are looking for an experienced Entrepreneur in Residence to join the Founder s Office at Leap. The EIR- New Categories will contribute their expertise to the organization while exploring new categories 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.