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This is the opposite.\nYou will be the person founders deal with. You design the curriculum, choose the mentors, decide who gets into the cohort, and run the room on demo day. That is a founder facing job with a network that compounds fast.\nOnni Capital invests its own capital. There is no fund clock and no external investment committee. If a studio company is working, we can keep backing it. If it is not, we can stop without a fund's optics driving the decision.\nThe platform behind you is genuinely unusual for an incubator. Onni owns the real estate, operates businesses across development, construction, property management, and hospitality, and can put a startup's product in front of real operators in weeks. Studio graduates can become venture investments, and standout talent can move into portfolio companies or into Onni Capital.\nHow We Work\nOnni Capital is being designed as a high ownership, low bureaucracy team. We work in small project groups, test ideas quickly, put early products in front of users, and make decisions based on evidence rather than hierarchy. Team members are expected to:\nChallenge assumptions and communicate directly\nTake responsibility for outcomes, not simply produce recommendations\nUse modern AI tools to work faster and produce better results\nShare unfinished work early and improve it through feedback\nMove comfortably between strategic analysis and hands on execution\nKnow when to continue investing in an idea and when to stop\nOperate effectively without a detailed playbook\nThis is not a role for someone who wants months of consensus building, a rigid job description, or a narrowly defined set of responsibilities. It is for someone who learns quickly, takes initiative, enjoys solving ambiguous problems, and wants to help build something from the ground up.\nWhat You Will Do\nRunning the studio\nDesign and run the twelve week programme end to end, including the week by week curriculum covering legal setup, engineering, product, marketing, and go to market\nRecruit each cohort, including outreach to founders, universities, accelerators, and the local technology community, then run selection\nBuild and manage the mentor and industry network, including operators from Onni's businesses, external founders, investors, and service providers\nRun demo day, including format, guest list, investor attendance, founder preparation, and follow on capital conversations\nNegotiate and document studio investments, including equity terms, and coordinate with counsel on the standard instrument\nManage the studio space, cohort logistics, and the day to day operating rhythm of the programme\nTrack cohort outcomes, including product progress, revenue, follow on funding, and graduate destinations, and report on programme performance\nDirect venture investments\nSource direct venture opportunities through the studio, Onni's network, funds Onni backs, and the founder community\nScreen opportunities and prepare investment recommendations with a clear view on team, market, product, and why Onni specifically should be on the cap table\nRun diligence on direct investments, including market work, customer references, technical assessment, and financial review\nSupport term sheet negotiation and closing, working with counsel\nMonitor the venture portfolio, maintain relationships with founders, and identify follow on opportunities\nAcross the pillar\nBuild the pipeline between studio graduates, venture investments, portfolio company roles, and Onni Capital itself\nIdentify where a studio company solves a problem inside Onni's operating businesses and broker that first customer relationship\nRepresent Onni Capital in the Vancouver founder and investor community, including events, sponsorships, and partnerships\nDocument processes, decisions, and operating standards so each cohort runs better than the last\nContribute to internal investment discussions, product reviews, demonstrations, and Onni Capital events\nWhat You Bring\nTwo to five years in venture capital, an accelerator or venture studio, startup operations, or as a founder. What matters is that you have been close to early stage companies and have seen what makes them work and fail\nEvidence of having built or run something yourself, whether a company, a product, a programme, a community, or a recurring event with real attendance\nGenuine credibility with founders. This job does not work if founders do not want to talk to you\nStrong commercial judgment and the ability to assess a team, a market, and a business model quickly and say what you actually think\nFinancial modelling capability sufficient to build a business case from a blank sheet and to read a cap table and a term sheet without help\nExcellent programme and project management instincts. A twelve week cohort with twenty companies is a logistics job as much as an investment job\nDemonstrated ability to use modern AI tools to research, analyse, prototype, automate, and produce high quality work\nStrong written and verbal communication, including the ability to present to executives without jargon and to give a founder difficult feedback well\nA bias toward action and comfort making progress with incomplete information\nComfort working in a small, fast moving team where responsibilities change as the programme develops\nHigh personal standards for accuracy, quality, ownership, and follow through\nNice to Have\nExperience running or working inside an accelerator or venture studio programme\nAn existing network in the Vancouver or Canadian startup ecosystem\nFounder experience, including a company that did not work out\nExposure to proptech, construction technology, climate technology, fintech, or vertical software\nTechnical literacy sufficient to assess a product and talk credibly to engineers\nExperience running events, community programmes, or investor days\nFamiliarity with tools such as Claude, Claude Code, Linear, Slack, or similar platforms\nWhat Success Looks Like\nSuccess in this role is measured by the quality of the companies brought into the studio, the strength of the investment pipeline created, and the value the programme produces for both founders and Onni.\nIn the first twelve months, you should be able to show:\nStrong, repeatable deal flow producing high quality studio applicants and direct venture opportunities\nA well run cohort of approximately twenty companies with strong founder participation and completion\nMeaningful connections between studio companies and Onni operating businesses, including pilots, customer introductions, and commercial opportunities\nHigh quality investment recommendations supported by clear diligence, financial analysis, and investment judgment\nA growing pipeline of direct investments and follow on opportunities from the studio and broader founder network\nA credible Demo Day that attracts relevant investors, operators, and industry partners\nMeasurable progress across the studio portfolio, including revenue growth, product milestones, follow on funding, and customer traction\nStrong founder satisfaction and an alumni network that becomes a source of referrals, talent, investment opportunities, and future mentors\nA disciplined operating system for applications, deal tracking, diligence, portfolio reporting, and cohort performance\nA programme that improves each cycle and develops a reputation as one of the strongest founder platforms in Canada\nWhat Makes This Role Different\nYou will build a venture programme rather than join one. In a single cohort cycle, you may be involved in:\nDeciding what the twelve week curriculum actually teaches\nChoosing which twenty companies get in and which do not\nNegotiating the equity terms with each of them\nIntroducing a founder to an Onni operator who becomes their first paying customer\nRunning demo day in front of investors and industry\nRecommending a follow on cheque of ten times the studio investment\nBringing a studio graduate into a portfolio company as an operator\nDeciding, honestly, whether the programme is working and what to change\nThe expectation is high ownership. The studio is yours.\nThe Onni Capital Experience\nOnni Capital is creating a new headquarters in downtown Vancouver designed for builders, founders, investors, product teams, and portfolio companies, not traditional corporate administration. The space is intended to become a home for company creation, collaboration, product demonstrations, investment discussions, founder events, and the broader Onni Capital community.\nTeam members will receive:\nDirect exposure to senior Onni executives, investors, operators, developers, and founders\nThe opportunity to help launch products and businesses from the ground up\nAccess to Onni's operating businesses, technology resources, real estate portfolio, and investment platform\nCompetitive compensation and a discretionary performance bonus\nA comprehensive company paid benefits package\nAn annual education and professional development allowance\nRegular product demonstrations, founder sessions, investment discussions, and team events\nFree access to a fully equipped gym\nFriends and family rates across participating hospitality brands\nEmployee discounts at participating restaurants, retailers, fitness providers, and other businesses\nA generous employee referral program\nSalary Range:\n$85,000\nAbout The Company:\nOnni\nFor over half a century, Onni has been building communities for people to live, work, and play. Our success reflects our commitment to our employees and partners, and our dedication to quality construction, innovation, sustainability, and customer satisfaction. Our expertise expands across North America, with offices in Vancouver, Toronto, Los Angeles, Seattle, Phoenix, and Chicago.\nAI Use:\nThis role may involve the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support research, analysis, content development, design, reporting, or operational efficiency. Employees are expected to use AI responsibly and in compliance with company policies, data privacy requirements, confidentiality obligations, and applicable laws.\nAll AI-generated or AI-assisted outputs must be reviewed for accuracy, quality, and appropriateness before use. Employees are also expected to disclose when AI tools have been used in the creation of work and must not present AI-generated content as solely their own original work.\nHow To Apply:\nPlease apply through the link on the job posting and attach your resume and any other required documents.\nWe thank all applicants for your interest in the Onni Group. 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