United Kingdom · Innovation Intrapreneurship · Mid-Level (2-5 years)

Venture Analyst

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

Experience bandMid-Level (2-5 years)
Direct reportsNo direct reports
Reports toSenior Innovation Strategist
UK framework levelUsually a coordinator, or early in a professional job

Also advertised as Innovation Specialist · Experimentation Lead · Intrapreneurship Analyst · Lab Project Lead

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1What this role really is

This role sits right at the heart of our Innovation Lab, where we're trying to figure out what's next for the business. You're not just thinking about ideas; you're actually building and testing them. Think of it as running mini-startups inside a big company. You'll be the one designing the experiments, getting them off the ground, and making sure we learn something useful, even if the idea doesn't pan out. It's a hands-on job where you'll see your work directly influence potential new products or services.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Miro / MuralAdvanced

You'll be designing and running virtual workshops, brainstorming sessions, and mapping out customer journeys or business models. You'll create boards from scratch and facilitate discussions.

FigmaAdvanced

You'll build interactive prototypes and wireframes from scratch for user testing. You'll also be able to make quick edits to existing designs and manage component libraries for your prototypes.

Jira / AsanaAdvanced

You'll configure project workflows for innovation sprints, create custom dashboards to track experiment progress, and manage your own tasks and team capacity within a venture.

Airtable / NotionAdvanced

You'll design complex relational databases in Airtable for tracking experiment results and insights, and build comprehensive knowledge hubs in Notion for your venture's learnings and documentation.

Tableau / Power BIAdvanced

You'll perform data preparation, write custom calculations, and build insightful, interactive dashboards to track experiment results and present key metrics to your team and stakeholders.

Excel / Google SheetsAdvanced

You'll use these for advanced financial modelling for business cases, detailed data analysis, and creating ad-hoc reports that might not fit into a dashboard.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choice	Coming in	Where you are now	The step above
Experiment Design & Methodology	Propose options, seek approval from manager.	Design independently for routine experiments, consult manager for novel approaches.	Define and approve experiment methodologies for entire ventures, consult Director on strategic alignment.
Budget Allocation (per experiment)	No authority, all spend requires manager approval.	Up to £1,000 for tools/resources (e.g., survey credits, small ad spend) with manager notification; above £1,000 requires manager approval.	Up to £5,000 for venture-specific resources; consult Director for larger spends or new vendor contracts.
Vendor Selection (for experiment tools)	Research options, manager makes final decision.	Recommend and justify preferred vendors for specific experiment needs, manager approves.	Select and onboard vendors for venture-wide tools, negotiate terms up to £10K, consult Director above that.
Project Timelines & Milestones	Follow assigned timelines, escalate delays immediately.	Manage your own task timelines, propose adjustments to manager for approval if impacting overall venture schedule.	Set and manage venture-level timelines, communicate changes to stakeholders, consult Director on significant delays impacting strategic goals.
Customer Engagement Strategy	Conduct interviews/surveys as directed by manager.	Design and execute customer engagement plans (e.g., interview scripts, survey questions, user test protocols) for specific experiments.	Define the overall customer research strategy for a venture, ensuring ethical guidelines are met and insights are actionable.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Number of Customer Interviews Conducted

How many in-depth conversations you've had with potential customers or users to understand their 'jobs-to-be-done' and pain points.

Target · Typically 15+ per month, depending on venture stage.

In April, you completed 18 customer interviews for the 'Future of Payments' venture, uncovering three critical unmet needs.

Time to First Prototype

The speed at which you can translate an idea into a testable prototype, whether it's a wireframe, a landing page, or a simple interactive mock-up.

Target · Under 5 working days from concept approval to testable prototype.

For the 'AI Assistant for SMEs' concept, you delivered a clickable Figma prototype for user testing in 4 days.

Quality of Experiment Synthesis Reports

How well your reports summarise findings, articulate key learnings, and recommend next steps (pivot, persevere, or kill).

Target · Average rating of 4/5 or higher by your Senior Innovation Strategist.

Your report on the 'Subscription Box' experiment clearly outlined the invalidation of the pricing hypothesis, leading to a recommended pivot in the business model.

Validated/Invalidated Killer Assumptions

The number of critical, make-or-break assumptions for a venture that you've definitively proven or disproven through experimentation.

Target · 5+ per quarter for active ventures.

By end of Q2, you'd validated the market demand for a specific feature and invalidated the assumption that customers would pay a premium for it.

Clarity of Experiment Design

Your ability to design experiments with clear hypotheses, measurable outcomes, and a logical path to prove or disprove an assumption.

Your experiment plans are easy to understand, even for non-technical stakeholders. You clearly define what success (validation) looks like and what failure (invalidation) means. You get minimal questions about the methodology during reviews.

Proactive Problem-Solving

How you identify and tackle roadblocks in your experiments, rather than waiting for someone else to fix them.

You flag potential issues (e.g., 'we can't get enough users for this test') early and come with 2-3 potential solutions. You're not afraid to ask for help, but you've already thought through the options. You catch data errors before they become bigger problems.

Stakeholder Communication & Collaboration

Your effectiveness in keeping relevant internal teams informed and engaged, especially when you need their input or resources.

You provide timely updates to your Strategist and relevant project teams. You can explain complex experiment results in plain English. People feel like you're easy to work with and you respond promptly to requests for information or support.

Adaptability to Feedback

Your willingness and ability to adjust your approach based on new data, feedback from your Strategist, or shifts in venture direction.

You take constructive criticism well and can quickly incorporate changes into your experiment designs or analysis. You don't get defensive when an idea you've worked on gets challenged or needs to 'pivot'.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy

Solving Real-World Problems

You get a buzz from identifying a genuine customer pain point and then designing an experiment to see if your proposed solution actually helps. You're driven by the idea of making a tangible difference.

You spend an afternoon interviewing small business owners about their accounting frustrations, then sketch out a new service idea, and immediately start planning a landing page 'smoke test' to gauge interest.

Continuous Learning & Discovery

You love the process of learning something new every day, whether it's about customer behaviour, a new technology, or a market trend. Invalidation isn't a failure; it's a valuable lesson.

After an experiment fails to validate a key hypothesis, you're not disappointed; instead, you're energised to dig into the 'why' and redesign the next test with those learnings in mind.

Autonomy & Ownership

You thrive when given a problem and the freedom to figure out the best way to tackle it. You like having ownership over your experiments and the insights they generate.

Your Strategist gives you a broad problem space, and you take the initiative to research, design the experiment, execute it, and present the findings, all with minimal oversight.

What frustrates people

Being asked for a detailed 5-year ROI forecast on an idea that's only a few weeks old and still highly uncertain.
The 'Not Invented Here' syndrome, where a business unit resists a promising lab project simply because they didn't come up with it.
Dealing with the 'innovation tourism' crowd—executives who love 'cool demos' but don't provide the sustained support or political cover needed to scale ideas.
The core business's 'immune system' kicking in: fighting against legacy IT systems, slow legal reviews, or a general risk-averse culture that's built for execution, not exploration.
Having a successful, de-risked project transferred to a business unit, only for them to take all the credit for its market success.

What this role does not give you

A predictable, linear path where every project you start gets completed and launched.
A stable, unchanging set of priorities; things can and will shift quickly.
The immediate gratification of seeing your work directly contribute to a launched product (though it does happen, it's not the norm for every experiment).
A role where you only execute; you're expected to think critically and challenge assumptions.

6Who you work with

Your work directly impacts the viability of our internal ventures. By systematically testing hypotheses and providing clear validation or invalidation, you help us make smarter 'pivot or persevere' decisions. This means we either kill off ideas that won't fly early on, saving significant investment, or we double down on those with real potential, accelerating our growth into new markets. You're a crucial part of our 'innovation immune system,' making sure we're robust and agile.

Inside the business

Senior Innovation Strategists (your direct manager and peers)
Product Managers (for potential handovers of validated concepts)
Marketing Team (for running 'smoke tests' and customer acquisition experiments)
Data & Analytics Team (for data infrastructure and deeper analysis support)
Legal & Compliance (for early-stage regulatory checks on new ideas)

Outside the business

Potential Customers (for interviews, surveys, and usability tests)
External Vendors (for specific tools or services needed for experiments, e.g., survey platforms)

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

At least 2 years of hands-on experience in an innovation, product management, or business analysis role, specifically focused on early-stage idea validation or experimentation.
Demonstrable experience designing and running experiments (e.g., A/B tests, user tests, landing page tests) and interpreting the results.
Proven ability to conduct qualitative customer research, including designing interview guides and synthesising insights.
Strong analytical skills, comfortable working with both quantitative and qualitative data to draw actionable conclusions.
A portfolio or examples of projects where you've taken an idea from concept to a tested prototype or validated learning.
Fluency in English, both written and verbal, for clear communication with diverse stakeholders.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Advanced Experimentation Design with AI

AI is making it possible to run more complex, multivariate experiments and analyse results faster. You'll need to understand how to design experiments that leverage AI's capabilities for hypothesis testing and insight generation.

Multi-Armed Bandit Testing · Causal Inference with AI · Automated Hypothesis Generation · AI-Driven User Segmentation

This week: Research 'Multi-Armed Bandit' algorithms and how they differ from traditional A/B testing.
This month: Explore tools or platforms that offer AI-driven experimentation features.
Month 2: Design a hypothetical experiment where AI could dynamically optimise variants.
Month 3: Present a brief on how AI could improve our current experimentation process to your team.

Quick win: Start looking at the analytics tools you already use (e.g., Google Analytics, Tableau) for any new AI-powered features that could help you segment users or identify patterns faster.

No-Code/Low-Code Prototyping

The ability to quickly build functional prototypes without writing extensive code is becoming essential. This speeds up the 'build' part of the build-measure-learn loop, allowing for faster iteration and testing.

Webflow/Bubble · Zapier/Make (formerly Integromat) · Glide/Adalo · API Integration (No-Code)

This week: Pick a simple internal process and try to automate a part of it using Zapier or Make.
This month: Complete a basic tutorial for Webflow or Bubble to build a simple landing page.
Month 2: Build a functional, interactive prototype of a new venture idea using a no-code tool.
Month 3: Share your no-code prototype with the team and get feedback on its effectiveness for testing.

Quick win: Find a simple, repetitive task you do weekly (e.g., moving data between two apps) and see if you can automate it with a no-code tool in under an hour.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up

Actively participate in innovation meetups, conferences, and online communities to stay current with best practices and emerging trends.
Read books and articles on Lean Startup, Design Thinking, behavioural economics, and product management (e.g., 'The Lean Startup,' 'Inspired,' 'Jobs to Be Done Playbook').
Take online courses or workshops on advanced data analysis, prototyping tools (like Figma), or specific AI applications for innovation.
Seek out mentorship from experienced innovation practitioners, either internally or externally, to learn from their successes and failures.
Contribute to open-source projects or personal side projects that allow you to experiment with new technologies or methodologies.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: AI-Powered Problem Framing

As AI gets better at understanding context and generating ideas, the skill isn't just about using it for answers, but for asking better questions. AI can help you reframe problems, identify hidden assumptions, and explore solution spaces you might not have considered.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

AI-Powered Problem Framing

As AI gets better at understanding context and generating ideas, the skill isn't just about using it for answers, but for asking better questions. AI can help you reframe problems, identify hidden assumptions, and explore solution spaces you might not have considered.

Adversarial Prompting
Constraint-Based Ideation
Cognitive Biases in AI
Ethical AI in Innovation

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

Lean Startup Methodology
Design Thinking
Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) Framework
Business Model & Lean Canvas
Basic Financial Modelling for Ventures

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

1
Innovation Lab Associate (L1)
1-2 years
Skills to master
- Conducting user interviews, building simple prototypes from templates, synthesising research findings, basic data collection and organisation.
You're ready to move on when
- Consistently delivers high-quality research and prototyping support.
- Demonstrates a strong understanding of basic innovation methodologies.
- Proactively identifies opportunities to contribute beyond assigned tasks.
- Receives positive feedback on collaboration and learning agility.
2
Product Analyst / Junior Product Manager (from another company)
2-3 years
Skills to master
- User story mapping, backlog management, A/B testing, market research, stakeholder communication, understanding of product lifecycle.
You're ready to move on when
- Proven track record of contributing to product discovery and validation phases.
- Strong analytical skills with experience interpreting product usage data.
- Ability to translate user needs into testable features or experiments.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams (e.g., engineering, design).
3
Business Analyst / Management Consultant (junior level)
2-4 years
Skills to master
- Problem definition, data analysis, process mapping, client communication, presentation skills, structured thinking.
You're ready to move on when
- Demonstrated ability to break down complex business problems.
- Experience in gathering requirements and analysing data to inform decisions.
- Strong presentation and communication skills, especially to senior audiences.
- An interest in moving from analysis to hands-on experimentation and venture building.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey starts here, but where it takes you is entirely up to your ambition and curiosity. We're committed to giving you the tools and opportunities to make a real impact, wherever your career path leads.

Pay & demand

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The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Venture Analyst is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

…and nine more, matched to you after your first chat. Meet all twelve

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13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Investment Business: Strategy, Clients and Commercial PerformanceLevel 3

Applied to your work in Venture Analyst

This unit aims to provide learners with a comprehensive understanding of the investment industry, including its purpose, structure, and the various types of investment firms. Learners will explore the structure, governance, ethical considerations, commercial proposition, client strategy, and financial performance of an investment business.

How the thinking builds

Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyse
Evaluate
Create

An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

DemonstrateIllustration

Evidenced on your work in Venture Analyst

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

Number of Customer Interviews ConductedHow many in-depth conversations you've had with potential customers or users to understand their 'jobs-to-be-done' and pain points.In April, you completed 18 customer interviews for the 'Future of Payments' venture, uncovering three critical unmet needs.Typically 15+ per month, depending on venture stage.
Time to First PrototypeThe speed at which you can translate an idea into a testable prototype, whether it's a wireframe, a landing page, or a simple interactive mock-up.For the 'AI Assistant for SMEs' concept, you delivered a clickable Figma prototype for user testing in 4 days.Under 5 working days from concept approval to testable prototype.
Quality of Experiment Synthesis ReportsHow well your reports summarise findings, articulate key learnings, and recommend next steps (pivot, persevere, or kill).Your report on the 'Subscription Box' experiment clearly outlined the invalidation of the pricing hypothesis, leading to a recommended pivot in the business model.Average rating of 4/5 or higher by your Senior Innovation Strategist.
Validated/Invalidated Killer AssumptionsThe number of critical, make-or-break assumptions for a venture that you've definitively proven or disproven through experimentation.By end of Q2, you'd validated the market demand for a specific feature and invalidated the assumption that customers would pay a premium for it.5+ per quarter for active ventures.

These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Venture Analyst to Senior Innovation Strategist (L3), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 3 · in progressAI Fluency→ Senior Innovation Strategist (L3)→ your design

Where this takes you

Your journey starts here, but where it takes you is entirely up to your ambition and curiosity. We're committed to giving you the tools and opportunities to make a real impact, wherever your career path leads.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration

Venture Analyst

Lean Startup Methodology
Design Thinking
Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) Framework
Business Model & Lean Canvas
Basic Financial Modelling for Ventures

This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Venture Analyst is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

Senior Innovation Strategist (L3)
3-5 years in the Venture Analyst role.
You'll move from owning individual experiments to leading an entire internal venture end-to-end, managing a small, dedicated team and making strategic decisions about its direction.
- Venture P&L Management (basic): Understanding and managing the budget for your venture.
- Portfolio Management (micro-level): Balancing the risks and opportunities of different experiments within your venture.
- Advanced Business Model Design: Iterating on and refining complex business models for scalability.
- External Partner Management: Working with external vendors or partners crucial to your venture's success.

Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, innovation work can be messy and time-consuming. But here's the thing: AI isn't just for the tech teams anymore. We're actively using cutting-edge AI tools in our Innovation Lab to speed up research, spark new ideas, and even draft those tedious reports. Imagine getting back a quarter of your week to focus on the really interesting stuff – the strategic thinking, the deep customer insights, and the creative problem-solving.

As a Venture Analyst, you'll be at the forefront of applying these tools. We won't just tell you about AI; you'll actually use it, day-in, day-out, to make your experiments more efficient and your insights sharper. It's about working smarter, not harder, and letting the machines handle the grunt work so you can focus on being brilliant.

Automated Research Synthesis

Use AI tools (like Dovetail's AI features or custom GPTs) to automatically transcribe, tag, and summarise dozens of user interviews. This means you can instantly identify key themes, pain points, and direct quotes without sifting through hours of recordings yourself.

Accelerated Market Scanning

Deploy AI agents to continuously scan patent databases, startup funding announcements, academic papers, and competitor product launches. You'll get a synthesised weekly brief on emerging threats and opportunities, saving you hours of manual research.

Generative Ideation Partner

Use Large Language Models (LLMs) as your creative sparring partner. Prompt models with questions like 'What are 10 business ideas for our core asset in the adjacent market?' or 'Critique this business model canvas from the perspective of a skeptical CFO' to quickly generate and refine ideas.

Instant Pitch Deck & Memo Drafting

Feed an AI model with your raw experiment data, user quotes, and a business model canvas. Ask it to generate a first draft of a 10-slide pitch deck or a 2-page investment memo for our internal venture capital board, saving you significant drafting time.

Common questions

How do you become a Venture Analyst?

Common routes in include Innovation Lab Associate (L1) (1-2 years), Product Analyst / Junior Product Manager (from another company) (2-3 years) and Business Analyst / Management Consultant (junior level) (2-4 years). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Venture Analyst progress to?

This role can lead on to Senior Innovation Strategist (L3) (3-5 years in the Venture Analyst role.), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Venture Analyst in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 3 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Venture Analyst?

Increasingly, AI-Powered Problem Framing. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows a Venture Analyst, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 1 national skill standard. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Venture Analyst: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A Zavmo curriculum screen: a three-month plan built for a customer support lead, five Ofqual-regulated units and a hundred and ninety-six credits. — A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.

Start free No commitment. See your first steps free.

15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 3

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Innovation Intrapreneurship

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll build as a Venture Analyst are highly transferable. You could easily move into Product Management, Business Development, or even start your own company (intrapreneurship is great training for entrepreneurship!). The ability to test ideas, understand customers, and drive growth is valued across almost any industry, from FinTech to Healthcare to Retail.

Not sure this is the right direction?

Work out what you actually want from work first, then come back and see which roles fit it. Takes about ten minutes.

You're not behind. You're right on time. The shift is only just beginning. Your role won't look the same in two years. Be the one who leads the change, not the one it happens to. Build my plan, free Here's the first ten minutes: a 2-minute confidence check → your personalised roadmap → meet the tutors matched to you. No card, cancel any time. No card. Build your plan, see your roadmap and meet the twelve tutors matched to you. All free. When you're ready to start learning, it's £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.

Venture Analyst

What's rising in its place

AI-Powered Problem Framing

Skills this role draws on

Technical

How you actually get there, here

Innovation Lab Associate (L1)

Product Analyst / Junior Product Manager (from another company)

Business Analyst / Management Consultant (junior level)

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

Roles this leads to

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

A conversation, not a course

No two people run this the same way

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Your journey starts here, but where it takes you is entirely up to your ambition and curiosity. We're committed to giving you the tools and opportunities to make a real impact, wherever your career path leads.

Everything else the record holds

The career path, and where it branches

Senior Innovation Strategist (L3)

Where AI is starting to help

Automated Research Synthesis

Accelerated Market Scanning

Generative Ideation Partner

Instant Pitch Deck & Memo Drafting

Common questions

You’ve started things before

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.