Venture Studio Analyst - Onni Capital
There is an exciting opportunity for a Venture Studio Analyst to join Onni Capital in Vancouver. Onni Capital is a new investment and company building platform within the Onni Group. Operating at the intersection of a venture studio, private equity firm, and family office, we build new companies, invest in exceptional founders, and pursue opportunities where Onni’s capital, operating platform, real estate portfolio, and industry relationships create a meaningful advantage. Onni Capital is being built from the ground up with the speed, ambition, and working style of a technology company. Our team works across venture creation, technology, private investments, fund investments, and special opportunities. This is not a traditional corporate innovation department. This role exists to build companies. As a Venture Studio Analyst, you will help take ideas from an initial problem through research, validation, financial modelling, product specification, prototyping, launch, and revenue. On a single project, you may interview users, size a market, build a financial model, create a working prototype, define a product roadmap, and present an investment or launch recommendation to senior leadership. This is an opportunity for someone early in their career to gain unusual exposure to company building, capital allocation, product development, and executive decision making.
Responsibilities
- Build and launch new businesses within Onni, from problem definition through to a live product with real users and revenue
- Identify operational problems and commercial opportunities across Onni’s development, construction, property management, hospitality, finance, and investment businesses
- Interview internal stakeholders, customers, and end users to understand workflows, pain points, and unmet needs
- Translate user and business requirements into clear product specifications that designers and developers can act on
- Rapidly prototype working products, tools, workflows, and automations using modern AI assisted development platforms
- Hand validated and mature prototypes to the development team for production development and hardening
- Build business cases from a blank page, including market sizing, customer segmentation, pricing, revenue models, cost structures, capital requirements, and payback periods
- Quantify opportunities in terms of revenue, operating cost, hours saved, cycle time reduction, risk reduction, and customer value
- Design and run structured pilots with defined users, success metrics, deadlines, budgets, and clear continuation or shutdown criteria
- Develop go to market plans and support the acquisition and onboarding of initial customers
- Track adoption, customer feedback, revenue, costs, and measured impact following launch
- Present findings, recommendations, pilot results, and investment cases directly to senior leadership
- Research markets, competitors, technologies, founders, and vendors to determine what should be built, purchased, partnered with, invested in, or ignored
- Support the evaluation of external startup, private equity, fund, and special opportunity investments
- Document processes, tools, decisions, and operating standards so successful approaches can be repeated across the team
- Contribute to internal product reviews, investment discussions, demonstrations, and Onni Capital events
Requirements
- Interest in business, engineering, computer science, economics, finance, or a related field
- Strong new graduates with relevant internships, startup experience, founder experience, or a track record of building meaningful projects will be considered
- Strong commercial judgment and the ability to connect customer problems to viable business models
- Strong financial modelling and Excel skills, including the ability to build an understandable business case from a blank sheet
- Demonstrated ability to use modern AI tools and AI assisted development environments to research, analyze, prototype, automate, and produce high quality work
- Working technical literacy, including comfort with APIs, data structures, SQL, basic scripting, automation tools, or a demonstrated ability to learn technical systems quickly
- The ability to write clearly, simplify complicated subjects, and present recommendations to executives without jargon
- Strong research and analytical skills, with the judgment to distinguish useful evidence from noise
- A bias toward action and comfort making progress with incomplete information
- Evidence of having built or shipped something, whether a product, company, prototype, analytical tool, automation, event, or internal process
- Intellectual curiosity and an interest in technology, business models, investing, and company creation
- The confidence to challenge assumptions while remaining open to evidence and feedback
- Comfort working in a small, fast moving team where responsibilities change as projects develop
- High personal standards for accuracy, quality, ownership, and follow through
- Nice to Have — Experience working in or alongside an early stage startup
- Nice to Have — Experience with tools such as Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Linear, Slack, Databricks, Microsoft Azure, or similar platforms
- Nice to Have — Exposure to real estate, construction, hospitality, financial services, or another asset heavy industry
- Nice to Have — Familiarity with product management practices, including customer discovery, backlog management, user stories, product requirements, and pilot design
- Nice to Have — Experience developing software, internal tools, automations, or AI enabled workflows
- Nice to Have — Experience evaluating companies, industries, investment opportunities, or new markets
- Nice to Have — Previous founder, side project, or entrepreneurial experience
Why join
You will have the opportunity to see the full lifecycle of company creation rather than working on one narrow piece of it. From your first months, you may be involved in: • Developing an idea for a new company • Interviewing prospective customers • Building an initial product • Testing the product inside an operating business • Creating its financial and commercial model • Working with developers and designers • Presenting directly to senior executives • Supporting an investment decision • Helping secure the first external customers • Measuring whether the business is actually working The expectation is high ownership. The learning curve and potential impact are equally high. Onni Capital is creating a new headquarters in downtown Vancouver designed for builders, founders, investors, product teams, and portfolio companies, not traditional corporate administration. The space is intended to become a home for company creation, collaboration, product demonstrations, investment discussions, founder events, and the broader Onni Capital community. Team members will receive: • Direct exposure to senior Onni executives, investors, operators, developers, and founders • The opportunity to help launch products and businesses from the ground up • Access to Onni’s operating businesses, technology resources, real estate portfolio, and investment platform • Competitive compensation and a discretionary performance bonus • A comprehensive company paid benefits package • An annual education and professional development allowance • Regular product demonstrations, founder sessions, investment discussions, and team events • Free access to a fully equipped gym • Friends and family rates across participating hospitality brands • Employee discounts at participating restaurants, retailers, fitness providers, and other businesses • A generous employee referral program Onni For over half a century, Onni has been building communities for people to live, work, and play. Our success reflects our commitment to our employees and partners, and our dedication to quality construction, innovation, sustainability, and customer satisfaction. Our expertise expands across North America, with offices in Vancouver, Toronto, Los Angeles, Seattle, Phoenix, and Chicago. AI Use This role may involve the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support research, analysis, content development, design, reporting, or operational efficiency. Employees are expected to use AI responsibly and in compliance with company policies, data privacy requirements, confidentiality obligations, and applicable laws. All AI-generated or AI-assisted outputs must be reviewed for accuracy, quality, and appropriateness before use. Employees are also expected to disclose when AI tools have been used in the creation of work and must not present AI-generated content as solely their own original work.
Benefits
- Competitive pay & a Comprehensive Benefits Package.
- Benefits include company-paid extended health care, dental care, vision care, life insurance, critical illness, and critical life insurance.
- Annual Education Allowance
- Generous Referral Program
- Fun & collaborative company culture with lots of team building events
- Local discounts to restaurants, clothing stores, personal training, and more
- Free access to a fully equipped gym
- Friends and Family rates for hospitality brands.