1848 Ventures is a venture studio focused on consistently building, launching, and scaling a portfolio of B2B SaaS companies that harness the power of AI to fuel the future of small and medium sized business.
Backed by Westfield®, a respected leader in commercial insurance, 1848 Ventures extends beyond insurance by launching digital products that address the uncertainties that businesses face on a daily basis. We focus on industries that are the driving force of our economy including construction, real estate, hospitality, retail, and restaurants. Westfield’s backing affords us the agility to explore innovative ideas, weather uncertainties, and pursue ambitious ventures with confidence.
Our talented team of hands-on venture builders, data scientists, engineers, and designers combined with repeatable playbooks allows us to rapidly validate, build, launch, and scale customer focused AI enabled startups.
At 1848 Ventures culture is not just a concept – it is the essence of what we do, our behaviors, rituals, and practices. It’s the actions that enable our set of evolving relationships and the experiences they create. The culture is grounded in the practice of virtues. This enables our pursuit of excellence, which we express and measure by our actions. We act on these behaviors in the “how” of our work, our interactions with others, and the conduct we hold ourselves and others accountable to, individually and collectively.
Read on to discover how your skillset and experiences may help contribute to our approach.
1848 Ventures is seeking a to join our team and play a pivotal role in developing innovative digital products that help small and medium-sized businesses grow. In this role, you will have a direct impact on our goal to ideate, test, refine, and launch new ventures, thereby generating more customers, creating new sources of financial and strategic value, driving deeper insights about risk, and enhancing the Westfield value proposition. As part of an agile, diverse, multi-disciplinary team, you will design, build, and deploy scalable software solutions that meet the needs of our customers and contribute to the success of our ventures.
- Collaborate with team members within the Venture Loop to design and develop software solutions that support the delivery of new ventures from ideation to launch, pivot, or shut down with velocity.
- Participate in the entire software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance applications using a variety of technologies, including but not limited to AWS, Python, Node.js, and React.
- Ensure software is built to be data-driven and integrated with various data solutions.
- Contribute to the development and refinement of software engineering best practices and processes.
- Work collaboratively with designers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to ensure software solutions meet customer needs and business objectives.
- Stay current with emerging trends and technologies in software engineering.
- Fostering collaborative and mutually beneficial cross-functional relationships that help accelerate 1848 Ventures’ progress toward its goals.
- Thought leadership across the entire 1848 Venture portfolio to build on the ideas of others, improve outcomes, and ensure strategic alignment.
- Developing and iterating frameworks and capability building across 1848 Ventures.
We are an equal opportunity employer/minority/female/disability/protected veteran.
What We Do
Big challenges. Passionate people. Smart solutions. This is what you’ll find at 1848 Ventures. We help business owners manage uncertainty and discover opportunity in risk. We’re not aiming for incremental improvement – we’re breaking new ground. And when we see opportunity for innovation, we have the freedom, resources, and culture to make it happen.
We’re champions of business owners everywhere. After all, it’s this startup ethos and entrepreneurial spirit that 1848 Ventures – and our parent company, Westfield – was founded on. Westfield, a leading provider of commercial insurance, established 1848 Ventures in 2018 to expand beyond conventional property and casualty insurance products and address the broader risks small business owners face every day. We meet our customers where they are, partnering together to deliver digital solutions that improve their bottom line.
We know that in order to succeed, we need the right people to make it happen. We start by building a team with a diverse set of voices, backgrounds, and experiences. We’re looking for the innovators. The pioneers. The change agents. The people who aren’t afraid to ask, “What if…?” and try it anyway. This is the place for self-starters, go-getters, and anyone who wants to see a good idea become a great reality.
At 1848 Ventures, we help people build careers. Based in Northeast Ohio near Cleveland, our team members grow their creative and commercial skill sets, applying their talents to a wide range of portfolio concepts. And who we are drives what we do – our values empower a thriving culture that allows for true innovation, learning, and growth.
