Senior Venture Builder

About Lestari

Lestari is an early-stage startup accelerator that provides a ready ecosystem for startups to access early market adopters and accelerate their journey towards product-market fit. As part of Pijar Foundation, Lestari brings together a coalition of strategic partners to respond to future trends, opportunities, and challenges. Pijar Foundation’s portfolio and involvement include ASN Berpijar, Solo Technopark, and the Global Future Talent Alliance.

Role Summary

The Senior Venture Builder is a hands-on execution lead responsible for turning venture concepts into fully operational businesses. The role takes ownership of building ventures from the ground up, driving portfolio companies toward early commercial milestones, and independently managing multiple projects in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.

Key Responsibilities

1. Venture Planning and Execution. Translate venture strategies into clear action plans, priorities, timelines, and deliverables. Lead execution across assigned ventures, monitor progress, follow up on outstanding actions, and ensure that key milestones are delivered on time.
2. New Venture Development. Build new ventures from concept to operational readiness, including setting up the operating model, team structure, commercial arrangements, workflows, and other foundations required to launch and run the business.
3. Commercial Development and Market Activation. Lead the early commercial development of assigned ventures, including go-to-market activation, customer acquisition, partnership development, and the pursuit of initial revenue opportunities.
4. Operational Problem-Solving and Delivery Management. Identify potential blockers early and take proactive steps to resolve them. Maintain momentum across multiple ventures by managing dependencies, coordinating relevant stakeholders, and ensuring that issues are followed through to completion.
5. Systems, Processes, and Performance Reporting. Establish practical operational systems, workflows, performance trackers, and reporting structures that support effective execution and prepare ventures for future growth.
6. External Stakeholder Management. Represent Lestari professionally in engagements with investors, corporate partners, government institutions, and other external stakeholders. Build trust, communicate venture priorities clearly, and ensure consistent follow-up on agreed actions and opportunities.

1. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field, with 4–7 years of experience in venture building, startup operations, early-stage company building, or hands-on consulting.
2. Proven experience taking a project, business, or initiative from an ambiguous concept into a functioning operation, with clear ownership of execution and results.
3. Strong project and delivery management capabilities, including the ability to manage multiple priorities, maintain clear timelines, follow up consistently, and close outstanding actions.
4. Comfortable working across commercial, operational, financial, and people-related matters in a fast-moving and evolving environment.
5. Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to identify blockers early and act proactively with limited supervision.
6. Clear and credible communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with internal teams, founders, investors, corporate partners, and government stakeholders.
7. Professional proficiency in English. Familiarity with Indonesia’s startup, corporate, government, or investment ecosystem would be a strong advantage.

1. Competitive compensation package aligned with experience and industry standards
2. Hybrid working arrangement
3. Flexible working hours (subject to business needs)
4. Professional development and learning opportunities
5. Direct exposure to strategic collaborations with government, development partners, philanthropic organizations, and leading private sector organizations
6. Opportunity to contribute to high-impact initiatives across Indonesia and Southeast Asia