madison Hiring for m Freight & Logistics Entrepreneur In Residence at Remote Full Time

25madison is a NYC-based venture capital platform that builds and invests in early-stage companies. We partner with entrepreneurs from the earliest stages to build breakout businesses at our Studio and invest in Pre-Seed to Series A opportunities from our Fund.

Our team comes from a diverse set of companies like Flatiron Health, Snap, Lyft, LinkedIn, Google, Goldman Sachs, and Daily Harvest, but we share a common background as builders and operators, with a drive to help entrepreneurs move fast and build generational companies. Our in-house platform team spans product research, product design, software development, business development, acquisition marketing, brand marketing, legal, back office, and more.

25m Supply Chain is a vertical studio within 25madison that invests in and incubates software and tech-enabled services for today’s supply chain and industrial challenges.

Freight and Logistics Entrepreneur in Residence’s role will be to ideate, test, and validate new ideas in the cargo space. More specifically, you would be looking at areas potentially including freight forwarding, trucking and/or intermodal visibility with the support of our Venture Development team. You’ll work closely with our team of experienced operators and executives to validate an opportunity, develop an investment case, and build the solution – leveraging our people, playbooks, process and network. We will provide you with the initial capital to get going, hands-on support in the building process (discovery, UX, engineering, product, marketing), and continued advice and guidance as you launch and scale the company.

What you’ll do

Alongside the support of our team, you will be responsible for ideating, validating, and ultimately bringing this company to market. Key responsibilities throughout the incubation will include

• Conducting primary and secondary research on the verticals of interest to identify pain points and opportunities for innovation
• Testing desirability, feasibility, and viability of hypothesized solutions

• Building the investment case for your hypothesized solution
• Developing and executing on a business model, go-to-market strategy, and product roadmap for the hypothesized solution
• Designing and executing pilots to test the MVP
• Building and managing the company P&L to ensure financial targets are met
• Hiring A+ teammates

• Leading fundraising efforts
• Taking the company from idea to unicorn!

Who You Are

• A strategist with a strong entrepreneurial spirit – you may have been a startup founder in the past, held a leadership role at a fast-growing, venture-backed startup, or been an early employee
• An operator and executer at heart who is highly motivated to wear many hats and scale a business from the ground up, 0 to 1

• Deep experience in the supply chain or industrials markets with a clear understanding of industry dynamics
• Product management and/or software-oriented experience a plus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with the tech stack at industrial businesses also a bonus