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Product Engineer, New Venture Associate
Simple Ventures
Greater Toronto Area, CAN
Full Time
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2 days ago
Market ResearchProduct ValidationCustomer DiscoveryAI ToolsCommunicationOwnership
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About the Role
Simple Ventures is looking for a high-agency builder to validate new venture concepts from idea to conviction. You will operate like a founder, sourcing ideas, testing them in-market, and deciding which become real companies.
Key Skills for This Role
Market ResearchProduct ValidationCustomer DiscoveryAI ToolsCommunicationOwnership
Responsibilities
- Generate high quality venture ideas from global trends, AI driven shifts, and Canadian gaps
- Run rapid validation loops: customer interviews, landing pages, MVPs, experiments
- Synthesize insights into clear, opinionated investment memos
- Define the wedge, GTM, and early economics for new ventures
Requirements
- Experience building something from scratch (company, product, or meaningful side project)
- Exposure to early stage company creation
- Strong intuition for what makes products and businesses work
- Ability to operate with urgency and bias for action
- Actively use AI tools to research, build, and move faster
- Clear, structured thinker with strong writing ability
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About Simple Ventures
- Simple Ventures builds great Canadian companies by bringing the best product ideas to Canada.
- Backed by top Canadian leaders from Wealthsimple, Shopify, Ada, MindBeacon, and TD.
The Opportunity
- Core builder role: validating new venture concepts from idea to conviction.
- Operate like a founder — sourcing ideas, testing them in market, and deciding which become real companies.
- High ownership, high intensity, fast paced, with limited structure.
Key Responsibilities
- New Venture Origination: Generate high quality ideas from global trends, AI driven shifts, and uniquely Canadian gaps.
- Rapid Validation with Product + Customers: Run tight loops: customer interviews, landing pages, MVPs, experiments.
- Investment Case Development: Synthesize insights into clear, opinionated memos.
About You
- Experience building something from scratch (company, product, or meaningful side project).
- Exposure to early stage company creation.
- Strong intuition for what makes products and businesses work.
- High velocity execution with bias for action.
- AI native mindset: actively use AI tools to research, build, and move faster.
- Ownership and drive: relentless drive to win, extreme ownership.
- Clear, structured thinker with strong writing ability.
Benefits & Perks
- Impact: help build the next generation of Canadian companies.
- Learning: work closely with top founders and operators.
- Ownership: act like a founder across multiple ventures.
- Coverage: health & dental.
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