Venture Builder

About Lateralus AI

Lateralus AI is building and operating vertical AI applications tailored to niche, underserved markets. We aim to identify specific industry pain points and design targeted AI solutions that create value for clients. AI-native applications now replace both software and labor unlocking a fresh multi-trillion-dollar economic layer in fragmented, manual industries. At Lateralus, we go niche and deep, co-create with domain experts, and run fast, lean teams compounding returns across our portfolio.

Role: Venture Builder

As a Venture Builder at Lateralus AI, you will lead the creation of a new vertical AI initiative from discovery to scale. This is a role for someone who has already built and wants to do it again: an ex-founder, ex-C-level, or senior operator who thrives in ambiguity and loves taking ventures from 0→1. You will act as the founding operator, responsible for validating the problem, building early traction, and shaping whether this becomes a market-defining business.

Responsibilities

• Validate the Market: Lead discovery, customer interviews, and commercial testing to ensure we’re solving a real pain.
• Build the Business: Frame the first business model, land pilots, sign partners, and own GTM motion.
• Run the Venture: Structure experiments, track progress, and step into gaps across product, ops, and customer onboarding.
• Shape the Narrative: Translate insights and pilot learnings into a compelling story that guides product, market, and customer direction.

Required Skills

• 5–10+ years of experience as a founder, GM, or senior operator.
• Proven track record of taking products or ventures from idea to market.
• Sharp commercial and strategic instincts, with a bias for action.
• Skilled communicator across execs, engineers, and customers.
• Entrepreneurial and AI-native mindset, comfortable leveraging AI tools for speed and efficiency.

Nice to Have

• Experience in B2B or operationally complex industries (e.g., maritime, logistics, manufacturing, health).
• Prior exposure to customer discovery, pilots, and GTM execution.
• Deep domain network in at least one vertical.

Why Join Us

• Create Something New: join the first core team of a new vertical AI venture.
• True Ownership: your work directly shapes product, market, and GTM direction.
• End-to-End Impact: from discovery to scale, you’ll drive 0→1 execution within a repeatable framework.
• Studio Leverage: execute with the speed, infrastructure, and playbooks of Lateralus, while having support from an experienced core team.
• Aligned Incentives: we offer competitive compensation and equity so you share the upside.

This is a full-time, hybrid role based in Athens (we meet at our office 3x/week).