12 Aug
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Onni Group of Companies
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Vancouver
12 Aug
Onni Group of Companies
Vancouver
Salary Range
Why Onni Capital
You will not be handed a ticket queue. You will be handed a business problem and expected to come back with something working.
The distance between you and the decision is short. The person whose workflow you are fixing is in the building or a phone call away. You can ship on Tuesday and watch someone use it on Wednesday.
Onni's portfolio is a genuinely rare testing ground. Development, construction, property management, hospitality, finance, and investment businesses all sit inside one group, all with real operational problems and real budgets. Products get measured against actual revenue and actual cost, usually within weeks.
Some of what you build will scale into a business. Some will be shut down quickly when the evidence does not support it. Both outcomes are the process working, and neither reflects badly on you.
The path from here is real. Analysts on this team are expected to grow into product and engineering ownership, move into a portfolio company as an operator, or keep building inside Onni Capital.
How We Work
Onni Capital is being designed as a high ownership, low bureaucracy team. We work in small project groups, test ideas quickly, put early products in front of users, and make decisions based on evidence rather than hierarchy. Team members are expected to:
Challenge assumptions and communicate directly
Take responsibility for outcomes, not simply produce recommendations
Use modern AI tools to work faster and produce better results
Share unfinished work early and improve it through feedback
Move comfortably between strategic analysis and hands on execution
Know when to continue investing in an idea and when to stop
Operate effectively without a detailed playbook
This is not a role for someone who wants months of consensus building, a rigid , or a narrowly defined set of responsibilities. It is for someone who learns quickly, takes initiative, enjoys solving ambiguous problems, and wants to help build something from the ground up.
What You Will Do
Find and define the problem
Work directly with operators, tenants, customers, and internal teams to understand workflows and find where time, money, or accuracy is being lost
Translate what you learn into a clear problem statement and a product specification someone can act on
Size the opportunity in terms that matter: revenue, operating cost, hours saved, cycle time, risk reduced
Build
Build working software using AI assisted development tools, specifically Claude Code, as a core part of your daily workflow
Ship a first version fast, put it in front of real users, and iterate on what you learn rather than on what you assumed
Integrate with existing systems, external APIs, and third party services where the product needs it
Hand validated products to the engineering team for hardening into production systems, and stay involved through that transition
Own the outcome
Design and run structured pilots with named users, defined success metrics, a deadline, and clear criteria for continuing or stopping
Onboard the first users personally, train them, and stay close enough to hear what is not working
Track adoption, feedback, revenue, cost, and measured impact after launch
Support go to market for products that graduate, including pricing, positioning, and early customer acquisition
Present what you built, what happened, and what you recommend directly to senior leadership
Across the platform
Deploy onto Valorem, Panni Consulting engagements, or portfolio company work as priorities shift
Research markets, competitors, technologies, and vendors to determine what should be built, bought, partnered, or ignored
Document what you build, why you built it that way, and what you learned, so the team gets faster over time
Contribute to internal product reviews, demonstrations, and Onni Capital events
What You Bring
Interest in business, engineering, computer science, product, economics, or a related field. Strong current graduates will be considered
Evidence you have built and shipped something real. A product, a company, a prototype, an automation, an analytical tool, a community, or a side project with actual users. What you built matters more than where you studied
Daily, fluent use of modern AI tools, including AI assisted development environments such as Claude Code, with the judgment to know when to trust output and when to verify it
Working technical literacy. Comfort with APIs, data structures, SQL, basic scripting, and automation tools, or a demonstrated ability to learn technical systems quickly
Genuine entrepreneurial instinct. You look at a broken process and want to fix it rather than complain about it
Commercial judgment. You can connect a user problem to a business case and explain why something is worth building The ability to talk to people. Much of this job is sitting with an operator who is busy and getting them to tell you what actually slows them down
Clear writing, and the ability to explain a technical idea to an executive without jargon A bias toward action and comfort making progress with incomplete information
Comfort working in a small, fast moving team where responsibilities change as projects develop
High personal standards for accuracy, quality, ownership, and follow through
Nice to Have
Founder, side project, or startup experience
Experience with tools such as Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Linear, Slack, Supabase, or similar platforms
Familiarity with the modern TypeScript and React ecosystem, or with Python
Exposure to real estate, construction, hospitality, financial services, or another asset heavy industry
Experience with product practices such as customer discovery, user stories, and pilot design
Experience integrating LLMs into applications, including prompt engineering and evaluating output quality
What Success Looks Like
Success in this role is not measured by how many ideas you generate, meetings you attend, or prototypes you build. It is measured by whether you can repeatedly turn real business problems into working products and evidence.
Within your first year, you should be able to point to:
Products shipped: You have taken multiple problems from discovery through to a working product used by real people, not just demonstrated internally
Fast validation: You can move from a credible problem to a testable first version in days or weeks rather than months
Real adoption: Operators or customers choose to keep using what you built because it makes their work materially better
Measured business impact: Your projects can demonstrate revenue generated, costs reduced, hours saved, cycle times improved, risk reduced, or another clearly defined business outcome
Good investment decisions: You have helped identify which products deserve additional engineering and capital, and you have been willing to shut down projects quickly when the evidence is weak
Strong product handoffs: Products that graduate from experimentation reach engineering with clear requirements, validated workflows, documented learnings, and committed users
Operator trust:
Business teams see you as someone who understands their problems, moves quickly, and follows through rather than someone who arrives with technology looking for a use case
Increasing ownership: Over time, you require less direction, identify worthwhile opportunities yourself, and can own increasingly important products from problem through deployment and commercial outcome The strongest analysts will eventually be trusted to own a product, launch a new business, or step into an operating role inside an Onni Capital portfolio company.
What Makes This Role Different
You will see a product from problem to outcome rather than one narrow slice. On a single product, you may be involved in:
Sitting with an operator and watching them do the job badly because their tools are bad
Writing the specification for what should replace it
Building the first working version yourself
Deploying it into an operating business and watching real users hit it
Discovering your assumption was wrong and changing direction
Presenting the result directly to senior executives
Handing it to engineering to harden into production
Deciding, with the team, whether it is worth continuing to invest in The expectation is high ownership. The learning curve and the potential impact are equally high.
The Onni Capital Experience
Onni Capital is creating a new headquarters in downtown Vancouver designed for builders, founders, investors, product teams, and portfolio companies, not traditional corporate administration. The space is intended to become a home for company creation, collaboration, product demonstrations, investment discussions, founder events, and the broader Onni Capital community.
Team members will receive
Direct exposure to senior Onni executives, investors, operators, developers, and founders The opportunity to help launch products and businesses from the ground up
Access to Onni's operating businesses, technology resources, real estate portfolio, and investment platform
Competitive compensation and a discretionary performance bonus A comprehensive company paid benefits package An annual education and professional development allowance
Regular product demonstrations, founder sessions, investment discussions, and team events
Free access to a fully equipped gym
Friends and family rates across participating hospitality brands
Employee discounts at participating restaurants, retailers, fitness providers, and other businesses A generous employee referral program
About The Company
Onni For over half a century, Onni has been building communities for people to live, work, and play. Our success reflects our commitment to our employees and partners, and our dedication to quality construction, innovation, sustainability, and customer satisfaction. Our expertise expands across North America, with offices in Vancouver, Toronto, Los Angeles, Seattle, Phoenix, and Chicago.
AI Use
This role may involve the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support research, analysis, content development, design, reporting, or operational efficiency. Employees are expected to use AI responsibly and in compliance with company policies, data privacy requirements, confidentiality obligations, and applicable laws.
All AI-generated or AI-assisted outputs must be reviewed for accuracy, quality, and appropriateness before use. Employees are also expected to disclose when AI tools have been used in the creation of work and must not present AI-generated content as solely their own original work.
How To Apply
Please apply through the link on the job posting and attach your resume and any other required documents.
We thank all applicants for your interest in the Onni Group. Note that only those applicants under consideration will be contacted.
📌 Innovation Analyst (Vancouver)
🏢 Onni Group of Companies
📍 Vancouver