Associate, Venture Creation

Roadrunner Venture Studios is the nation’s leading platform for founding breakthrough ventures in deep technology. Our mission is to turn frontier tech into breakthrough companies for the benefit of the American people. Together with engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs, we build products, create business models, recruit teams, align companies with their first customers, and provide initial funding. Our Venture Studios focuses on energy, clean tech, advanced manufacturing, and next generation compute..

At Roadrunner, the future doesn’t just happen — we make it happen. We take our work seriously, without taking ourselves too seriously. We believe progress must be imagined and built — and we build it together.

The Role
We’re looking for an Associate, Venture Creation to help us identify, shape, and launch the next generation of deep-tech startups. Reporting to the Sr. Manager, Product, you’ll work at the crossroads of science, technology, and business — diving into new markets, analyzing technologies, and helping transform big ideas into investable ventures.

You’ll join a team that moves fast, experiments often, and believes conviction beats consensus. Every project you touch will connect to something bigger: building the future of American innovation.

What You’ll Do:
• Research emerging technologies and markets across energy, compute, and manufacturing to uncover high-potential opportunities.
• Evaluate early-stage technologies and founders through commercial and technical diligence.
• Build financial models, venture theses, and investment memos that inform new company formation.
• Translate insights from adjacent industries to frame and accelerate entirely new venture ideas.
• Collaborate with founders to shape business plans, go-to-market strategies, and early customer pathways.
• Contribute to Roadrunner’s evolving venture-creation playbook and the deep-tech ecosystem in Albuquerque.
• Speak to the customers themselves and guide how the next generation of frontier technologies are built.

Who You Are:
• You’re insatiably curious and highly technical — the kind of person who can’t help but learn something new every day. You read about emerging tech for fun, spot patterns before others do, and get energy from connecting dots across industries. You’re analytical but creative and you thrive in ambiguity. You’re drawn to people who build things that matter.

• You also bring:
• 3+ years in consulting, venture capital, strategy, or startup operations.
• Comfort with quantitative and qualitative analysis — from market sizing to business modeling.
• A technical foundation (engineering, physics, computer science, or related field) preferred.
• Excellent communication skills and a bias toward clarity, action, and collaboration.
• Located in Albuquerque, NM or a desire to relocate there to be in-person with the team.

Why Roadrunner
We earn trust through fairness, integrity, and delivery. We win together, own together, and run together. We’re building companies that make the world better — and having a blast doing it. If you’re wired to learn endlessly, think boldly, and build what’s next, come make the future with us.

Roadrunner Venture Studios is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. We do not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender-identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws or prohibited by Company policy. We strive for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibit harassment of any kind.