Coventures is a platform for entrepreneurship! We're a community for entrepreneurs who want to collaborate in learning and development, leveraging corporate assets for more impactful projects, and in incubating impact startups. We seek exceptionally talented entrepreneurs who are skilled in both practice and theory. An entrepreneurial "get-things-done" drive combined with management consulting analysis skills.

We launched Coventures to realize the true potential of entrepreneurship by building truly meaningful ventures together! Meaningful problems like climate change require collaboration between forward-thinking corporations and skilled entrepreneurs. We are building the playbook for this collaboration, so entrepreneurship can be applied to meaningful problems for achieving a hundredfold impact.

We see a shortage of skilled entrepreneurs solving problems with a global positive impact. Truly meaningful problems are complex, require valuable assets, and deep domain knowledge. In short: solving them requires co-operation between two very different worlds where no bridge currently exists.

Coventures is building that bridge — a platform to bring together entrepreneurs and innovative companies to solve problems that are truly worth solving.

• We are building an agency of co-founders and entrepreneurs (instead of consultants, designers or developers)

• We focus on achieving tangible measurable business (instead of not so tangible "transformation", "brand benefits", ”design sprints”)

• We have a network delivery model, where we can handpick required technical talent from our partner network to best fit the venture needs. This means we're 100% objective advisors for the client.

We are looking for actual entrepreneurs, who want to build their own consulting business together with us. We operate on a simple revenue share basis, where we help you build your own business with our platform and collaborate on building more impact. And when you're ready to start your next venture, we have a strong value proposition for incubating that together with us.

The career path with Coventures is usually two-fold:

1. Help our corporate and startup clients build new impact business (consulting) & help us build the platform

   • Build our collaborative asset-base (client relationships, partnerships)

   • Build the playbook (learn more, understand what you know and what you don't, systematize your learning for becoming more effective)

   • Build your own personal assets. If you're good, our model allows you quite easily to earn a very high income level.

2. When you feel like it, incubate your own business ideally utilizing the collaborative assets we've built up. For this, we can provide funding, partnerships, corporate partnerships, leverage public-funding, co-founders, tech-stack, etc. - and we basically just invest in your FFF-round without taking any extra equity.

What we can offer you:

• A community of A-class peers to learn with and help you in every challenge you might have. All this translates to more value for your clients or venture.

• Sell your services through a trusted brand (Coventures) with existing references, client testimonials, marketing value, etc.

• We take care of all the legal, information security & back-office requirements of your business (finance, accounting, billing, gdpr, contracts, etc.)

• You'll have a ready-to-use sales/marketing machine to reach your clients. We'll help you very hands-on in reaching out and do all sales together.

• We have already built a successful offering, which can be sold to clients, so you can get up-to-speed with selling those before building your own offering.

• You'll get access to the ever-growing Coventures toolbox and knowledge base.

• All our existing client relationships and network (including advisors and delivery partners will be at your disposal)

• You'll get access to certain valuable partnerships that allow for example using public-funding that might e.g. finance 75% of client costs (e.g. ELY-keskus, Innovaatioseteli)

• We can build superb tech-stack and partnerships for you to leverage in customer projects.

• Possibility to become an owner in Coventures platform.

In general, we look for exceptional, senior talent with experience in the following overlapping domains:

• Entrepreneurship (especially early stage)

• Product Management (focused on ventures)

• Venture Design or Business Design (focused on new venture development)

• Corporate Innovation (focused on venturing and innovation strategy)

• Management Consulting (focused on new venture development)

In this EiR:CPO position our initial idea is to find:

• An actual Entrepreneur excited to build their own business within the Coventures platform!

• We help our clients in analyzing their product organization, solving specific spot-on problems (e.g. pricing, product strategy, etc.), and working as a temporary product leader to move things to the right direction. Sometimes we also help clients in hiring their product talent. Our EiR would sell, deliver and improve our existing offering as well as build further services on how to help our clients with their unique skill-set.

The ideal Entrepreneur for this product-focused role:

• Identifies as an entrepreneur and has a passion for building ventures, creating impact, and is a life-long learner in the school of entrepreneurship.

• Has built ventures in the past and is an entrepreneur by heart.

• Is a rare breed full-stack product leader who understands deeply all areas in modern product management.

  • Building a product-led-organization (C-level experience here)

  • Broad Venture Strategy understanding - extensive experience in how to develop a product vision and product strategy in a venture

  • Stellar experience in working with developers as a Product Manager (agile methods, etc.)

  • Product Analytics - growth, metrics, tools and frameworks (e.g. Amplitude, AARRR, etc.)

  • Customer Discovery and Product Discovery

  • Experience in working with UX and design

• Native-level English is mandatory. In case you're selling to Finnish clients, it seems to be a big plus in case you speak Finnish as well.

We have already been selling this offering for 2+ years with good results. There is a global big need to help companies become more product-driven. If you're interested in contributing to this problem together, let's talk.

How to apply:

Because we receive many applications where some might not actually meet the criteria, we kindly ask you to read our instructions and requirements.

In your short text:

1. Your Entrepreneur experience: Let us know clearly which ventures you've co-founded (had equity and C-level role in) - we expect a minimum of 2 years of venture co-founder level experience.

2. Your Product experience: Explain clearly your experience in being a product manager or product leader and what type of things you were responsible for - we expect a minimum of 4 years (can overlap with you being an entrepreneur) of experience where you've worked as a Product Manager or in a Product leadership role (e.g. CEO responsible of product in venture). We look for expert product managers who also know how to lead a product management organization.

3. Please let us know the books you've read, trainings/certifications, and blogs you follow in the area of product management. We look for people with exceptional theoretical understanding combined with practical experience in applying that theory.

4. Would be great if the text itself is a statement of your copywriting and creative skills.

In your video:

• Show your personality and just be yourself.

• Explain your motivation and why you would like to join us.

• Tell us your plan on how you would build your own consulting business (selling your experience) together with us. Be as concrete as possible.

We'll definitely contact each application we deem to fit the requirements above. We'll try our best to reach our also to applications that don't fit the criteria, but it might take a while. Please be patient.

In case you're interested in joining Coventures, but the requirements of this position are not yet met, then we'd advise you to fill in our open application.