Strategy Consultant (Venture Builder)

The short versionAre you ready to join a team putting AI to work on some of the world's hardest problems, with people who genuinely give a sh*t about the outcome? We're looking for a curious, entrepreneurial thinker who moves fast, challenges ideas rigorously, and wants to do work that actually matters.As a Venture Builder, you will work like a non-technical co-founder inside one of our entrepreneurship centres, embedded with a major client. Your job is to turn a messy idea into a clear recommendation: is it worth pursuing, and on what basis? You will use AI as a core part of how you work, not as a bolt-on, spotting where it changes the economics of a problem and helping the team work smarter with every mission. If you have ever wanted the autonomy of a founder with the backing of a tight, senior team, this is that role.Most weeks you will work across one or more missions alongside a fast-moving squad. Some days that means talking to users and synthesising what you heard by end of day. Other days it is stress-testing a business model or building a compelling narrative for a senior stakeholder. Move fast, fix mistakes faster.What you'll actually doValidate entrepreneurial ideas across energy, infrastructure and adjacent sectors: size the market opportunity, map the competitive landscape, and find the path to execution.Run the validation cycle end to end: identify the critical assumption, test it, weigh the evidence, and make the call to continue, pivot or stop.Find and reach industry experts and users, then synthesise their input into clear, usable insight.Build the narrative, slides and analysis that let senior client stakeholders decide with confidence.Spot where AI changes the economics of a problem, use it, and help the team work smarter over time.Improve our internal knowledge base so the next mission moves faster.Who you areEntrepreneurial by instinct. You find the critical assumption, go after it, and cut through the noise.A first-principles thinker. You break the amorphous and complex into what actually matters. You are after the truth, not the framework.Organised and self-managing. Small, high-autonomy teams fall apart without people who track their own commitments and deliver without being chased. This one is non-negotiable.An outstanding communicator. You can brief a technical researcher, challenge an assumption in a room of senior stakeholders, and write a clean deck, often in the same day.Comfortable with ambiguity. Priorities shift and missions move. You do not need the full picture to start making progress.Already using AI to get results, because you are the kind of person who uses whatever works.What you'll need3+ years in management consulting, strategy, corporate innovation, product or operations, ideally across more than one context.A bachelor's degree with strong academic performance.Strong analytical judgement: comfortable with messy data and good at knowing what it means.Experience on complex, multi-stakeholder projects where the stakes were real and the decisions were not simple.A working feel for how markets work, how start-ups operate, and how large organisations make decisions.The ability to build a tight narrative and present it convincingly.Hit the experience bar but not every bonus point? Back yourself and apply.Bonus pointsYou have founded or tried to build something. Success not required; well-earned scars absolutely count.Background in or around corporate innovation or early-stage investment.Exposure to capital-heavy or infrastructure-scale work (energy, resources, construction, infrastructure).Sector experience in oil and gas, energy transition, or adjacent industries.Workshop facilitation experience.How we work, and the logisticsThis is a full-time, on-site role at Lot Fourteen in Adelaide. We are based here on purpose: the work runs on fast, in-person problem-solving.We are a small, diverse bunch of humans with a passion for sport, nature, books, basting the Christmas turkey (or tofurkey), and arguing the right way. We laugh a lot, we don't take ourselves too seriously, and we lean on each other when it counts. What stitches us together is a deep passion for being the proven pioneers of worthwhile innovation for the conscious and ambitious.About 11point2Born out of 25 years working on the genesis and validation of ideas, 11point2 is a pioneer in supplying entrepreneurial founder mindset and agility to corporations and government. We deploy entrepreneurial squads to find and pursue high-value opportunities sitting inside large organisations. We run missions in weeks, working with clients whose own systems were not built to move that quickly, and we are continuously evolving our method, mindset and mechanisms to scale mission execution excellence across multiple customers and countries. We connect unobvious dots to create clarity within the chaos of transformative, disruptive innovation, and we conceive and rapidly validate ideas that would otherwise never have been found.11point2 is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment is decided on qualifications, merit, business need and a genuine passion for uncovering and validating worthwhile ideas.