Entrepreneur-in-Residence, AI Native Ventures (LG NOVA)

What we can offer:

A crafted employee experience designed to foster professional growth, a focus on health & well-being and an internal community that will set you up for success.

We offer an environment that enables colleagues to demonstrate their capabilities, focus on their work and create value. At LG, you're encouraged to take a creative and individual approach to challenges with strong emphasis placed on performance and skill—and equal, merit-based opportunities across the board. We want our colleagues to grow with our global business. That's why we deliver sure rewards for exceptional performance and offer industry-leading benefits. Come join the team!

The Opportunity: This is a contract position, not a direct full-time position with LG. This is a hybrid position with the expectation this person will work out of the Santa Clara, CA office per our current hybrid schedule (every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with the option to WFH Monday’s and Friday’s).

LG NOVA, LG’s North America Innovation Center, is the company’s venture incubation arm based in Silicon Valley. Our mandate is to identify transformative growth opportunities and launch new ventures that shape the future of LG. We partner with startups, enterprises, and public institutions to co-create the next generation of impactful businesses.

We’re seeking an experienced Entrepreneur-in-Residence to lead the incubation of a new AI venture within LG NOVA in underexplored or high-friction domains outside Health and Cleantech. This is a founder-track role focused on developing, validating, and launching a scalable business—culminating in a spin-out backed by our internal venture fund.

• Develop and pitch ventures through LG NOVA’s gated approval process and drive a venture from ideation to spin-out.
• Generate venture ideas by identifying emerging AI technologies, trends, and gaps in the market (B2B, B2C, B2B2C).
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver proof-of-concepts for venture ideas that including rapid prototyping and validating hypotheses.
• Build business models, product/service concepts, and go-to-market strategies.
• Create and manage financial forecasts and operational roadmaps.
• Secure early pilot partnerships and customer traction.
• Negotiate venture funding and spin-out terms with LG’s internal venture capital team.
• Assemble a world-class founding team.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years in startups, corporate innovation, or venture studios, with a proven ability to build and scale businesses.
• Proven ability to build and scale businesses.
• 7+ years in digital product management, strategy, or development
• Technical expertise with AI tools, cloud platforms, and software/hardware integration.
• Experience raising capital and working with VCs or corporate venture arms.
• Track record of navigating ambiguity and operating with urgency in white space environments.
• Exceptional communicator with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, computer science, or a related field (advanced degrees a plus).
• Experience with AI-first product development and business model design.
• Understanding of agile venture building and lean experimentation frameworks.
• Deep network across AI stakeholders and potential early customers preferred.
  Previous founder or start-up executive experience is preferred.

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