Venture Builder for Innovation Studio

7X; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

7X is seeking a Venture Builder to join its Innovation Studio and turn early-stage ideas into validated opportunities and real-world pilots in Dubai.

You will work across multiple ventures, conducting market research, customer discovery, financial modelling and pilot delivery, collaborating with operating companies, customers and cross-functional teams to test assumptions and support decisions on continuing or stopping ventures.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of relevant venture-building experience.
• Experience with customer discovery and commercial validation.
• Experience running or supporting at least one pilot with real users.
• Experience building, analysing or challenging a financial model or business case.
• Strong market research, competitor analysis and opportunity assessment skills.
• Fluency in both Arabic and English, written and spoken.
• Strong presentation and executive communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct market research, competitor analysis and opportunity sizing to assess new venture opportunities.
• Maintain venture and portfolio data to support continue, pivot or stop decisions.
• Develop and maintain financial models, unit economics and business cases for ventures in validation and pilot.
• Prepare stage-gate submissions, business cases and executive presentations.
• Challenge and validate assumptions using market data, customer feedback and commercial evidence.
• Conduct customer discovery, stakeholder interviews and proposition testing with prospective customers and users.
• Test early-stage propositions, pricing and commercial models.
• Translate customer insights into refined value propositions and business model decisions.
• Design and manage pilots, including participant recruitment, scheduling, issue tracking and escalation.
• Coordinate access to data, systems and permissions required for pilot delivery.
• Coordinate with vendors, partners, operating companies and internal functions to support pilot execution.
• Work closely with Finance, Legal, Corporate Communications, Product and AI Lab to remove delivery barriers.
• Conduct data analysis to support venture decisions and refine unit economics.
• Use AI tools for research, analysis, documentation and production while independently verifying outputs before they inform business decisions.
• Use no-code and low-code tools to rapidly prototype and test ideas where appropriate.
• Track venture KPIs and maintain portfolio reporting.
• Support and coordinate interns and contractors working on time-bound venture activities.
• Administer pilot expenses within approved budgets and ensure accurate spend tracking and reporting.

Skills

Venture Building

Market Research

Financial Modelling

Customer Discovery

Pilot Management

Data Analysis

AI Tools

No-Code/Low-Code

Stakeholder Management

Executive Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business/Engineering/Economics

Tools

No-Code/Low-Code Platforms

Job description

7X is seeking a Venture Builder to join its Innovation Studio and turn early-stage ideas into validated opportunities and real-world pilots in Dubai.

You will work across multiple ventures, conducting market research, customer discovery, financial modelling and pilot delivery, collaborating with operating companies, customers and cross-functional teams to test assumptions and support decisions on continuing or stopping ventures.