Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR)

Role Summary

The Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) will join Unlimit Ventures to help shape the go-to-market strategy for a venture concept we are incubating, with the goal of turning it into a startup they lead. Working closely with Unlimit’s leadership, product design and engineering teams, the EIR will shape business strategy, customer discovery, product direction and marketing.

They will also identify early customers and partners and build relationships with them. Success means reaching clearly defined product-market fit and a go-to-market strategy that investors will fund, with the EIR ready to step in as the founding leader of the new company.

Values

• Prudent optimism …glass-half-full, with a dose of caution to challenge our assumptions.
• Intrinsic motivation …driven by autonomy, goal clarity and regular feedback.
• Commit to desired outcomes …define desired outcomes and achieve them vigorously.
• No egos, no jerks …no joke.

Responsibilities

• Growth Strategy & Execution: Develop and implement innovative strategies that define the target market, business model, positioning and path to early revenue for the venture concept.
• Go-to-Market Excellence: Lead the development and refinement of go-to-market strategies, using customer validation to reach product-market fit, targeted positioning, and a credible launch plan.
• Venture Leadership: Act as the venture’s founding leader. Own the vision, make key decisions, and lay the groundwork for the founding team.
• Operational Excellence: Establish frameworks and processes that enhance operational efficiency, team performance, and accountability.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work with our internal product design and engineering teams and external partners to turn customer insight into product requirements, prototypes and pilots.
• Fundraising Readiness: Build the investment case, including the pitch narrative, financial model, milestones and evidence of traction. Lead conversations with prospective investors to raise the venture’s first round.

Basic Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of problem-solution fit as well as product-market fit with experience that reflects successful mastery of these challenges.
• Proven ability to take a product and business from 0 - 1, leading go-to-market activities that result in high customer retention.
• Proven ability to hire, build, and retain a world-class team.
• 7+ years in growth-focused roles, ideally within high-growth startups or scaling ventures.
• Proven success in growing products with a superb go-to-market strategy and operational excellence.
• A natural leader with a collaborative spirit, passionate about mentoring teams and fostering an environment of accountability and innovation.
• Skilled in leveraging data and metrics to drive decisions, optimize strategies, and improve operational efficiency.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience as founder or C-Level in startups, including involvement in fundraising.
• Experience bringing physical or hardware-enabled products to market, ideally in areas such as health wearables, health & wellness, climate impact, robotics & automation, physical AI, machine vision or food automation.
• Desire to step into a CEO or founder role.
• 10+ years of experience leading teams with a demonstrated track record of facilitating teams to apply lean startup thinking, design-thinking and agile development methodologies, including strong experience of customer research.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced, fluid environment.
• Unlimit Ventures is a venture studio that formulates, de-risks and launches new companies. We are a diverse team of innovators, builders and entrepreneurs, developing advanced technologies for practical use in robotics & automation, climate impact, and health & wellness… to name a few.