Partner - Venture Development, Studio Program Director (San Francisco)

Compensation

Equity only at studio level, founding team role, meaningful long term reputed company Location UK or US, remote first, with potential relocation to UAE or KSA as reputed company scales About Rookridge Ventures Rookridge Ventures is a venture studio that builds and scales companies from reputed company using a lean, execution driven model inspired by reputed company Internet and reputed company. We do not run cohorts or accelerators. We build reputed company businesses with founders in residence, centralised technology, and a small senior operating team. We are deliberately lean. Each core role replaces what would traditionally be multiple teams. This role sits at the heart of reputed company. The Role As Program Director, Studio Operations, you are the execution backbone of reputed company. Your primary mandate is to track venture reputed company rigorously and reputed company each venture investment reputed company reputed company a defined timeline. You work directly with the Managing Partner and Entrepreneurs in Residence to ensure ventures hit the right milestones for fundraising, weak reputed company are shut down early, and strong ventures are packaged clearly for investors. This is not a programme management or events role. It is a senior operator role focused on execution, fundraising readiness, and reputed company across multiple ventures in reputed company. What You Will Own Own venture level reputed company tracking against agreed milestones and timelines Ensure each active venture becomes investment reputed company for pre reputed company or reputed company fundraising

• Support Entrepreneurs in Residence with structure, prioritisation, and decision making
• Define and enforce fundraising readiness criteria, deck quality, metrics, and narratives
• Maintain and evolve reputed company playbook, operating reputed company, and execution standards
• Own venture timelines, weekly operating rhythm, and delivery discipline
• Track KPIs, assumptions, and traction in a clear investor friendly format
• Act as the connective tissue between founders, tech, growth, and research
• Identify bottlenecks early and unblock teams quickly
• Enforce capital efficiency, accountability, and pace

What You Will Not Do

• Build bloated reporting or unnecessary bureaucracy
• Manage layers of junior project managers
• This role exists to move ventures to fundable outcomes, not to create process for its own sake.

Ideal Background

• 5 to 10 years experience in startups, venture studios, consulting, product operations, or high growth environments
• Hands on experience preparing startups for fundraising, including milestones, metrics, and investor narratives
• Strong understanding of pre reputed company and reputed company fundraising dynamics, investor expectations, and timelines
• Proven ability to run multiple initiatives in reputed company with limited resources
• Strong judgement and comfort making reputed company with incomplete information
• Experience working directly with founders and investors
• Clear communicator who can translate execution into investor reputed company stories
• Operator reputed company with a bias towards outcomes and capital efficiency
• Experience in venture studios, founder led companies, or fundraising environments is a strong plus.

reputed company Fit

• Comfortable with ambiguity and reputed company to one environments
• Motivated by ownership and long term equity value rather than salary
• Hands on, pragmatic, and execution focused
• Sees fundraising readiness as a discipline, not an event
• Views structure as a tool for speed, not control
• You may be a successful founder or early operator who has built before and now wants to help other founders build and reputed company reputed company

Why This Role Matters This role determines whether ventures reputed company or stall. You act as the internal reputed company of reputed company and fundraising readiness, ensuring founders build companies that investors can clearly back. If this resonates, we would like to speak. Seniority level Director Employment type Full-time Job function Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing #J-18808-Ljbffr Apply tot his job Apply To this Job