Senior Manager, Innovation Lab

Core Responsibilities

• Lead investment product development across the Innovation Lab, advancing EO investment concepts from early-stage ideas to market-ready products through a disciplined innovation process
• Serve as a market and investor-facing representative, leading market validation and partnership assessment to ensure products are grounded in real investor demand and field realities
• Build and refine financial models that underpin EO investment products or solutions, informing capital stack design, scenario analysis and investor-facing materials
• Manage the Innovation Lab portfolio, overseeing timelines, workplans, deliverables, contractor and other external resources, and cross-project execution

This role creates positive change by developing innovative financing solutions that expand access to employee ownership capital, helping to build the Ownership Economy and making employee ownership a mainstream, scalable investing arena.

Required qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in investing, private equity, private credit, structured finance or related fields, or financial services product development/management
• Ability to understand market dynamics and user needs and translate those insights into well-scoped, investable products and solutions
• Ability to evaluate investment opportunities, build and interpret financial models and assess risk-return tradeoffs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with comfort engaging investors, fund managers and senior partners

No specific compensation, perks, or culture highlights mentioned in the posting. The team is fully remote with travel as needed for in-person events and gatherings.

Ownership Capital Lab works to build the Ownership Economy and Ownership Investing by developing innovative financing vehicles that expand access to employee ownership capital.