Analyst, Venture Creation

• Build and maintain bottom-up financial models for new venture concepts, including revenue models, cost structures, and capital requirements

• Develop unit economics, pricing strategies, and margin profiles across a range of deep-tech business models

• Conduct scenario analyses and sensitivity modeling to evaluate risk, upside, and capital efficiency

• Translate technical milestones into financial implications (cost to scale, time to commercialization, capital intensity)

• Support investment decisions through clear, data-driven financial outputs and structured analysis

• Support synthesis of market dynamics into quantifiable inputs for financial models

• Identify commercialization pathways and map them to revenue timing and scaling assumptions

• Engage potential customers to validate willingness to pay and demand drivers, feeding into model assumptions

• Analyze competitive landscapes through an economic lens (cost position, pricing power, defensibility)

• Partner with Founders-in-Residence and studio leadership to translate ideas into financially viable businesses

• Contribute to business cases and investment memos grounded in rigorous financial logic

• Support development of go-to-market strategies informed by unit economics and capital efficiency

• Assist in building pitch decks and fundraising materials, with a focus on financial clarity

• Help build and refine repeatable financial modeling frameworks for venture creation

• Support development of assumptions libraries, benchmarks, and modeling best practices

• Coordinate with product, engineering, and finance teams to ensure alignment between technical development and financial outcomes

• Provide structured economic analysis to support internal decision-making

• 1–3 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, or management consulting

• Strong foundation in financial modeling (Excel or equivalent) and comfort building models from scratch

• Ability to translate complex or technical inputs into clear economic frameworks

• Experience working with imperfect or early-stage data, forming assumptions from first principles

• Technical background (engineering, physics, math, computer science, or similar) preferred

• Strong communication skills—able to clearly explain financial concepts

• High intellectual curiosity and comfort in fast-moving, ambiguous environments

• Must be based in or willing to relocate to Albuquerque, New Mexico

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