Role Description As an Entrepreneur in Residence, you'll work at the intersection of investing and company building. You'll identify opportunities, validate ideas, build MVPs, and help launch the next generation of AI startups. We're looking for an entrepreneurial builder who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys turning ideas into companies. As an EIR, you'll work closely with the 16VC team to: - Identify high-potential opportunities. - Validate markets. - Launch products. - Build companies from the ground up. - Potentially become the founding CEO or join the founding team of a portfolio company. What You'll Do: - Identify emerging market opportunities across AI, SaaS, fintech, and other technology sectors. - Generate, validate, and refine startup ideas through customer research and rapid experimentation. - Build MVPs using AI tools, no-code platforms, or by collaborating with engineers and designers. - Conduct customer interviews and gather feedback to iterate quickly. - Define product strategy, go-to-market plans, and early growth experiments. - Work closely with the investment team to evaluate new venture ideas and market opportunities. - Recruit early team members, advisors, and strategic partners when appropriate. - Collaborate with founders across the 16VC ecosystem and contribute to portfolio growth. - Present progress, insights, and recommendations to the leadership team. Qualifications - 2 to 6 years of experience building startups, launching products, consulting, product management, venture capital, or entrepreneurship. - Strong founder mindset with a bias toward action. - Comfortable working with uncertainty and solving unstructured problems. - Excellent communication and storytelling skills. - Highly analytical and customer obsessed. - Passionate about AI, emerging technology, and startups. Requirements - Previously founded or been an early employee at a startup. - Experience launching products from zero to one. - Familiarity with AI tools, LLMs, automation, and modern software products. - Experience with no-code or low-code platforms such as Bubble, Lovable, Replit, Bolt, Cursor, Windsurf, or similar tools. - Product, engineering, design, consulting, or venture capital background. Benefits - Build companies from day one with the backing of 16VC. - Work directly with experienced founders, investors, and operators. - Access to funding, mentorship, and a global network. - Opportunity to become the founder or founding executive of a venture launched through the studio. - High ownership, rapid learning, and significant career growth. - Competitive compensation with meaningful long-term upside.

• Produce scoping analyses: IT systems and data/flow mapping, architecture assessments, technical and cost benchmarks, interviews and workshops, then synthesize findings and quantify target scenarios. • Contribute to the delivery of transformation programs: prepare architecture dossiers and scoping notes, build roadmaps and business cases, prepare committee materials and drive workstreams using progress dashboards. • Enable transformation and adoption: define target organization and governance models, migration and deployment plans, deliver POCs, set up support and training programs, and establish adoption plans and value measurement. • Foster the collective: knowledge management, recruiting, innovation, pre-sales and creation of reusable assets, in an environment that values rapid ownership and visible contributions.

• Define and own the global cyber security strategy, aligned to business objectives and risk appetite. • Provide senior-level leadership and act as a trusted advisor to the CTO, Operating Team, Board Cybersecurity Committee, and senior leaders. • Lead global planning, budgeting, capability development, and vendor strategy for all security domains. • Promote a strong security culture across all regions, embedding secure behaviors and accountability. • Lead the design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of the Information Security Management System (ISMS). • Oversee global risk management, including risk assessments, control selection, and enterprise risk reporting. • Ensure compliance with global cyber security regulations and industry standards. • Lead the development and maintenance of global security policies, standards, and guidelines. • Oversee third-party and supply-chain security, including vendor assessments and due diligence. • Lead global Security Operations (SecOps), including monitoring, detection, threat intelligence, and vulnerability management. • Establish and mature global CSIRT/CSOC capabilities, ensuring 24/7 coverage where required. • Act as executive incident commander for major cyber events, ensuring effective response, communication, and recovery. • Define and oversee secure architecture, cloud security standards, and identity & access management (IAM). • Embed security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including secure coding, DevSecOps, and product security reviews. • Partner with Engineering and Technology teams to ensure secure design, encryption, and access controls across all platforms. • Act as the senior representative for cyber security with regulators, auditors, customers, and partners. • Oversee responses to customer and partner security assessments and due-diligence requests. • Monitor global regulatory developments and translate them into actionable controls and programs. • Lead and develop global teams across security operations, governance, risk, compliance, and resilience. • Build organizational capability, succession planning, and specialist talent pipelines. • Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture across regions and functions.

• Own the end-to-end sales cycle from initial lead sourcing and qualification to closing. • Conduct proactive outreach via LinkedIn and other channels to engage high-value prospects within the Node.js ecosystem. • Master the conversion funnel by moving prospects through solutioning and across the entire customer lifecycle. • Engage with technical stakeholders to demonstrate how our platform integrates with IDEs to solve complex debugging and security challenges. • Consistently meet and exceed KPIs focused on contact engagement, pipeline conversion, and Total Contract Value (TCV).