Venture Architect

Valora Digital is the tech unit of Valora. We are a team of developers, product designers, growth marketers and product managers that tackle projects that delight customers, improve processes and keep the company ready for the future of retail. We call ourselves builders & doers instead of thinkers & talkers, because we pride ourselves on taking ownership of projects from A to Z and not letting anything get in the way of shipping. Our main areas of focus are Autonomous Stores, Ecommerce & Delivery, Loyalty & Payments and Process Improvement.

As a Venture Architect you keep a finger on the pulse of the market, evaluate business ideas and prepare pitches for our investment board consisting of the top leaders in the company. If we decide to go ahead, you pilot them together with Engineers, Product Designers and Growth Hackers. In case of commercialization of an idea with product-market fit, you may transition into a founder role on the project.

• Run the whole venture building process, from ideation to carve out, in a structured, customer-centric and data driven way
• Leverage and coordinate specialists in UI/UX design, engineering and growth marketing to evaluate business ideas and build pilots
• Develop the economic model and business plan for new ventures, products and services
• Conduct customer, user and market research to identify and evaluate business opportunities and to test and validate assumptions for early products
• Explore and analyze markets, competitors and trends in the industry
• Present results of the venture building process to senior leadership on a regular basis

• A minimum of 2-3 years of working experience in consulting, tech start-ups or venture builders
• Track record of "building" something on your own - it doesn't matter if you have failed, what matters is the learning curve
• Bachelor's or Master's degree from a renowned university, ideally in business, finance, economics or a technical field
• Excellent analytical and conceptual skills
• Ability to quickly absorb technical concepts and communicate them to a non-technical audience
• Ambitious and equipped with an entrepreneurial mindset to make things happen
• Empathy for customers and intuition for how software can solve their needs while generating a profit
• Ability to think outside the box / envision a world different than the status quo
• Very good spoken and written communication skills in English and good spoken and written communication skills in German
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English

Bonus points:

• Basic coding skills in any programming language and/or understanding of HTML and SQL
• Design or product development expertise

• Build products for a customer base of more than 5 million people across 5 countries
• Access the resources of a big corporate but get the entrepreneurial freedom of a startup
• Open-minded and results-oriented working culture with flat hierarchies and highly-talented and ambitious colleagues to learn from
• Steep learning curve in a tech-heavy environment
• Competitive salary
• Office with roof terrace in the heart of Zurich, equipped with free snacks and free drinks
• State-of-the art hardware and software to work with