Venture Builder-in-Residence

Generalist excellence

: Your entrepreneurial, love zero-to-one environments, take ownership, and bring scrappy energy to your work.

: You can manage complex projects across stakeholders and disciplines.

Passion for data and startups:

You’re curious about the data economy and eager to work with founders solving novel problems in this space.

A rare opportunity

to work across a portfolio of cutting-edge, venture-backed startups solving meaningful problems with data.

Fast-track career acceleration

through high-ownership roles and proximity to exceptional founders and operators.

Founding opportunity potential

—the chance to incubate your own idea and launch a Shaper company in the future.

Embed with Portfolio Companies:

Join a Shaper-backed startup for a high-priority tour of duty—owning special projects, stepping in during moments of scale, or helping unlock critical growth levers.

Tackle Ambiguous, High-Leverage Work:

Lead projects with unclear ownership and high business value—standing up new products, streamlining operations, building financial models, or testing go-to-market strategies.

Cross-Company Exposure:

Rotate across multiple portfolio companies to rapidly build pattern recognition and context around what makes early-stage startups succeed (or fail).

At Shaper Capital, we’re on a mission to partner with incredible people to build companies that shape the world. Shaper Capital was founded by Travis May, who led the two biggest data companies created in the last 20 years (LiveRamp and Datavant); we’ve launched six companies over the past year, creating data businesses that follow similar playbooks across industries.

By joining Shaper today, you’ll be part of a small, ambitious team driven by the belief that the world’s greatest problems have yet to be solved and the most transformative companies have yet to be built. We empower our portfolio companies to create businesses that transform industries, and we believe in hiring individuals who are smart, nice, and get things done. We invest in hiring high-potential and humble individuals who thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and can rapidly grow their responsibilities as we reimagine company creation.