The Studio is part of Utopia Capital’s integrated venture platform — combining AI-native venture building, capital, and shared infrastructure to help founders build faster and smarter. Every role here directly contributes to launching and scaling AI-native companies across the Global South, from idea to Series A.

About The Studio

The Studio is an AI-native venture builder for the Global South, purpose-built to transform high-barrier problems into scalable, investable companies.

Partnering with domain experts & high-agency founders from concept to Series A, it both builds new ventures and re-engineers existing ones for AI-driven growth.

Powered by UTOPIA OS — a modular, adaptive stack tailored to each venture — it compresses the path from concept to Series A to under 24 months.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Founder’s Associate to work directly with our Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIRs) as their operational and strategic partner — helping them turn ideas into validated, investable products.

You’ll collaborate closely with the Head of Venture Success & Strategic Partnerships and the broader Studio team (Design, Product, Marketing and Talent) to ensure each founder has the systems, data, and structure they need to move fast.

This role is about making founders successful day-to-day — running sprints, managing pilots, gathering insights, and coordinating the resources that make venture building smoother and smarter.

Over time, you'll evolve from executional support into a strategic GTM builder — learning how to turn early-stage traction into scalable growth systems. This role is designed as a launchpad for future GTM and growth leadership.

You’ll report functionally into the Head of Venture Success & Strategic Partnerships to ensure every founder’s journey — from concept to traction — runs smoothly, data-driven, and AI-native.

Reports to: Studio Directors
Growth path: Head of GTM & Growth Strategy

Responsibilities

Founder Support & Venture Operations

• Work side-by-side with founders through the Studio journey — from concept validation to proof-of-concept and spin-out.

• Manage daily venture workflows: meeting notes, timelines, sprint tracking, and milestone reporting.

• Translate founder ideas into structured action plans — defining what needs to happen, by when, and who’s responsible.

• Support venture pilots — coordinating between technical, design, and product teams to ensure delivery stays on track.

• Maintain venture documentation so progress is visible and measurable.

• Gather insights and feedback from founders and users to improve studio processes and venture playbooks.

• Collaborate with founders to structure early go-to-market tests — messaging validation, channel experiments, and customer discovery loops.

• Use AI tools to analyze user data, generate market hypotheses, and identify signals for traction.

Research & Strategic Insights

• Conduct market and competitive research to support founder discovery and opportunity mapping.

• Analyze venture KPIs, performance metrics, and progress reports to identify patterns and opportunities for improvement.

• Prepare concise decks and briefs for internal reviews, investor meetings, and partnership discussions.

• Assist in building simple GTM models (ICP definitions, funnels, value-prop mapping) and document early traction metrics.

Program & Ecosystem Coordination

• Work with the Head of Venture Success to run Studio programs: onboarding, workshops, sprints, and milestone reviews.

• Support founder engagement initiatives — EIR Fellowship, POD sessions, and cross-venture learning events.

• Coordinate with the Marketing & Comms team to capture venture stories, milestones, and learnings.

• Help identify and manage relationships with ecosystem partners — mentors, advisors, and domain experts who can support specific ventures.

• Support venture exposure by coordinating with the Marketing & Comms team to position pilots, product milestones, and founder stories for visibility across ecosystems.

Operational & Administrative Excellence

• Keep venture systems organized — task boards, documentation, data rooms, and reporting dashboards.

• Track progress across ventures and maintain accountability through weekly updates and milestone reviews.

• Support logistics for Studio events, founder demos, and ecosystem meetups.

• Ensure every operational process reflects the Studio’s AI-native, Global South identity and design principles.

Experience & Skills

• 3 years+ of experience in startups, consulting, or venture environments (internships or fellowships included).

• Strong analytical and operational skills — you can move between research, coordination, and execution easily.

• Excellent at structuring ideas into slides, reports, or playbooks.

• Tech-savvy — comfortable with tools like Notion, Airtable, Figma, Linear, and Google Workspace.

• Curious about AI, venture building, and product design — eager to learn from technical and commercial teams.

• Comfortable in high-ambiguity, fast-moving environments; proactive and resourceful.

• Strong communicator who can work cross-functionally and build trust quickly with founders and teams.

Mindset & Growth

• Founder-first: You measure success by how effectively you enable founders to move faster and smarter.

• Builder mindset: You learn by doing, prototype solutions, and improve them every cycle.

• AI-native: You co-build and iterate with AI — using it to model hypotheses, test GTM experiments, and surface insights founders can act on.

• Collaborative operator: You thrive when working alongside other builders — translating ideas into action.

• Curious and driven: You ask questions, connect dots, and enjoy working across different ventures and industries.

• Growth learner: You think in experiments, funnels, and conversion loops — eager to learn how early traction turns into scalable systems.

Impact & Success Metrics

• Founders supported move from idea to proof-of-value within Studio timelines.

• Venture sprints and milestones delivered on time with high founder satisfaction.

• Early go-to-market tests produce clear traction signals or validated learnings.

• Venture data rooms and dashboards are always accurate and investor-ready.

• AI tools effectively automate weekly updates and reduce reporting time.

Why This Role Exists

You’ll be embedded where the action happens — inside venture pods, working with founders daily to turn ambition into traction.

Your work will make the Studio’s system run faster, smarter, and more repeatable — powering the next generation of AI-native companies launching from Doha to the Global South.

This is one of the fastest ways to learn how startups are built — from zero to product, from insight to impact.

Who This Role Isn’t Right For

If you prefer fixed routines, narrow scopes, or top-down direction, this isn’t the role for you.We work in ambiguity, across multiple ventures, and move fast from idea to execution.

If you get frustrated by shifting priorities or working across disciplines — product one day, research the next — this won’t feel like a fit.

If you need constant instruction rather than taking initiative and figuring things out, you’ll struggle here.

This role is for builders who learn by doing and thrive in environments where structure is something you help create.

What You Can Expect

• Meaningful Impact: Your work directly contributes to building the core infrastructure behind a new generation of ventures - enabling equitable, AI-native innovation across the Global South.

• Collaborative Culture: We thrive on openness, curiosity, and collective intelligence. Everyone has a voice, and decisions are made transparently.

• Growth Mindset: From AI learning and use budgets to mentorship, we invest in your development and help you grow beyond your comfort zone.

• Competitive Rewards: Tax-free compensation, private health, travel insurance and flexible hybrid setup.

• Work-Life Integration: Office lunches twice a week, great snacks, and team meetups that keep energy and connection high.

• Global Exposure: Occasional travel across Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East for meaningful, on-ground collaboration with venture teams.

• Inclusive by Design: We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an environment where everyone belongs.

The Utopia Platform Advantage

The Studio is part of Utopia Capital’s integrated venture platform designed to solve the biggest friction points in emerging market venture creation.

Most founders face a broken journey: they struggle to build with limited resources, chase capital across disconnected investors, and lack the infrastructure to scale across regions. We've built a different system.

The Studio co-builds ventures with domain experts using AI-native infrastructure, compressing the path from concept to product. The Radical Fund and A-typical Ventures provide fast, aligned capital from pre-seed through Series A, removing fundraising friction at every stage. And Utopia OS — our shared technical backbone — gives every venture access to the same tools, data systems, and regional networks that would normally take years and millions to build.

This means founders can focus on solving real problems while we handle the build infrastructure, capital coordination, and cross-regional expansion. It's a compounding system: each venture we build makes the next one faster, smarter, and more capital-efficient. That's the platform advantage that you will be part of and contribute to, purpose-built for the complexity of the Global South.

We believe innovation should be inclusive and globally distributed. Our team is built on openness, curiosity, and collaboration — with people from across the GCC, Africa, and Southeast Asia working together to build meaningful ventures.

All roles are based in Doha, Qatar, with flexible hybrid options and global travel opportunities. We welcome talent from every background to join us in shaping the future of AI-native innovation.

Compensation Range: $60K - $90K