Description
Location: Fully remote (Europe)
Contract: FTC - Fixed Term Contract (6 months)
Salary: £60,000 - £75,000 (Pro-rata)
The problem we solve
Most corporate innovation fails because teams spend months (and millions) building things nobody wants. They guess. They assume. They plan in detail, and then reality arrives - the customer.
At Future Foundry, we help large organisations test first, build later. We replace costly assumptions with lightweight, real-world experiments that reveal what customers actually want before our clients commit serious time and money.
We've spent the last five years developing a structured, repeatable approach to business experimentation. In that time, we've run +500 experiments and saved +£1 billion in misallocated investment for some of the largest global innovation teams. Working with the likes of Mars, Experian, HSBC, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Hilton to de-risk new propositions, get to market faster, and make evidence-backed investment decisions.
And now? We're growing the team.
Responsibilities
This isn't your typical consulting gig. You won't be making decks for the sake of it or sitting in a client's office for weeks on end. You'll be designing experimentation programmes and leading evidence-building in the real world - turning messy uncertainty into clear, actionable evidence.
Here's how you'll spend your time:
40% - Client delivery
- Lead the design experiments that test customer demand, product feasibility, and market traction. You’ll use +60 experiments to find the best way to validate risky assumptions.
- Oversee the running of experiments from recruiting participants, conducting customer interviews, designing product visuals, setting up ads, and tracking behavioural data.
- Deliver workshops with client teams and external customers to help stakeholders surface assumptions, prioritise uncertainties, and structure meaningful tests.
40% - Analysis and strategic recommendations
- Turn raw data (qualitative and quantitative) collected by the team into compelling evidence.
- Work closely with client teams to understand the evidence and determine next steps.
- Form clear, strategic recommendations on where to accelerate, adapt, or withdraw. Including what this means for future projects.
20% - Internal projects
- Support business development and proposal work (when we're pitching extensions to existing or similar clients).
- Take ownership of our experimentation methodology - codifying and refining our frameworks, templates, and playbooks.
In practice, you'll typically be solely responsible for one client project at a time, managing the team, the client, and delivery. Projects range from a couple of weeks to a few months, though some larger programmes can run for up to 6 months. You'll be leading small, lean teams of 2-3 people, reporting to the Partners and guiding/training junior team members.
Requirements
We're hiring someone who gets energy from working with people (clients, partners, customers), loves learning by doing, and is curious about uncertainty.
The essentials
- Expect 5-10 years of hands-on experience in management or lead roles involving experimentation, concept validation, user research, venture design, or corporate innovation.
- Proven ability to design and run experimentation programmes, including customer interviews, prototype testing, demand experiments, or market validation work.
- Strong facilitation skills, where you can design and lead workshops with senior stakeholders and external customers with confidence and clarity.
- Comfort with ambiguity. You don't need a perfect plan to get started; you proactively create hypothesis-driven plans and adapt as you go.
- Excellent communication skills, where you can distil complex findings into clear, compelling recommendations (both written and verbal).
- A collaborative, curious mindset, as you're energised by working closely with clients and teammates, not operating solo in a silo.
Nice to have (but not essential)
- Experience leading large-scale innovation programmes with a focus on experimentation.
- Experience working in startups or boutique consultancies (you understand the "build-measure-learn" mentality).
- Background in corporate innovation teams or new product, service, or proposition development.
- Familiarity with the core industries we work in: retail, FMCG, healthcare, and financial services.
- Knowledge of design thinking, lean startup, jobs-to-be-done, or similar methodologies.
What likely won't work
- You’re not comfortable leading teams, being the point of contact for clients, and being responsible for 100% of the delivery
- You haven’t done hands-on experimentation work, as we're not looking for "desk research" consultants.
- A preference for long, detailed planning over fast, scrappy testing.
- Needing absolute certainty before making decisions.
- Wanting to stay in your lane. We need people who can flex across research, facilitation, analysis, and client management.
Additional Information
Benefits
£60,000 - £75,000 (pro-rata - depending on experience)
- Fully remote (work from anywhere in Europe)
- 28 days holiday (pro-rata, plus bank holidays)
- Occasional travel to client sites (UK/Europe/US, all expenses covered)
- Flexible working hours (as long as you're available for client meetings and team collaboration)
- Pension scheme (employer contributions)