Innovation & Validation Specialist (Contractor)
Clovr Labs is looking for a contractor to manage the day-to-day validation of new business ideas inside our Innovation & Growth Lab (IGL), working hand in hand with our Marketing team. Let's give you some context on who we're looking for and what to expect when you join the team.
👋 About us
Clovr Labs is an agile technology partner helping high-growth companies solve complex challenges in crypto, cybersecurity, and digital product development.
Our team of engineers, security experts, and product specialists co-build innovative solutions with clients, from strategy to execution. We provide cybersecurity consulting, crypto compliance, and custom software development (from infrastructure design to scalable MVPs). We also research and prototype emerging technologies, including DeFi, AI-native infrastructure, and advanced security systems.
Through our Innovation & Growth Lab, we validate and transform new business ideas into real, market-ready products. Our approach combines strategic advisory, deep technical expertise, and product innovation to build secure, future-proof solutions.
🎯 About the Innovation & Growth Lab (IGL)
IGL is Clovr Labs' exploratory lab, focused on launching and validating new business ideas at high speed. We operate like an internal venture studio, mixing product, growth, and strategy to go from 0 → 1.
Until now, validation has been a shared effort across the whole team. That worked while we were exploring, but today the core team is focused on scaling two ventures born in the lab, CreditCheck and N0, and new-idea validation has been put on hold.
That's where you come in: your mission is to reactivate the validation engine, running its day-to-day together with our Marketing team.
🧩 About the role
As Innovation & Validation Specialist, you'll manage the day-to-day of our validation pipeline: spotting promising opportunities, turning raw ideas into testable hypotheses, running fast and cheap experiments, and delivering clear, evidence-based go/no-go recommendations.
You'll report to our Marketing team and work hand in hand with them: strategy and priorities are defined together, and you'll drive the day-to-day execution of each experiment.
Projects can come from any sector, although most of the opportunities we explore live in the tech and AI space.
🛠 Key responsibilities
Scout and evaluate new business opportunities, market trends, and emerging technologies, mostly in tech and AI, but open to any sector.
Translate raw ideas into clear hypotheses and structured validation plans: problem, target customer, riskiest assumptions, and success criteria.
Design and run lean validation experiments: landing pages, paid campaigns, waitlists, smoke tests, discovery interviews, and lightweight prototypes.
Conduct market research, competitive analysis, and customer discovery to assess demand, desirability, and viability.
Coordinate day-to-day with the Marketing team and the resources around you, paid media partner, designer, and execution support, to run each experiment.
Define success metrics and validation criteria upfront, and share findings and go/no-go recommendations with the Marketing team and leadership.
Maintain a structured innovation pipeline, documenting experiments, learnings, and decisions over time.
🤝 You won't do it alone
You'll have a full support system around you to execute at speed:
A paid media partner to plan, launch, and optimize validation and acquisition campaigns.
A designer for landing pages, ad creatives, and any assets your experiments need.
The Marketing team to define strategy and priorities with you, and to help execute the operational actions each experiment requires.
🌊 You might be a fit if you have
A true entrepreneurial spirit: you think like a founder, move fast, and make things happen without waiting for instructions.
A highly proactive, self-motivated approach to problem solving.
The flexibility to adapt to any type of project or sector, and the curiosity to get up to speed on a new market in days, not weeks.
3–5+ years of experience in innovation, venture building, growth, product management, or market validation roles.
Familiarity with lean startup and experiment-driven methodologies (MVPs, smoke tests, discovery interviews, hypothesis testing).
Strong analytical skills, comfortable designing experiments and interpreting both qualitative and quantitative data.
Strong prioritization skills, comfortable running multiple experiments in parallel.
The ability to communicate clearly across audiences, translating between business and technical stakeholders.
Fluent written and spoken English.
Experience in a venture studio, consultancy, or high-growth startup environment is a plus.
Hands-on experience with AI tools, no-code platforms, or paid acquisition (e.g. Meta Ads) is a plus.
🔍 What we offer
A contractor engagement with full flexibility: remote and asynchronous work within Spain, independence, and autonomy in your day-to-day. Being based in Barcelona or the surrounding area is a plus, as the team meets there regularly. Scope and dedication to be agreed together.
A key role in bringing our validation pipeline back to life, hand in hand with the Marketing team.
Fair compensation for people with attitude above all (35K - 40K).
A stimulating and challenging environment at the intersection of tech, AI, crypto, and cybersecurity.
Room to experiment with emerging technologies and new ideas, that's literally the job.
A passionate and diverse team to share and learn with.
Clovr Labs is incorporated in Spain and the team meets regularly in Barcelona. We speak English and Spanish, most of the time at the same time, but we would appreciate it if you could send us the contents of your application in English.
- Departamento
- Marketing
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
Why working with us?
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⭐️ Work with amazing & talented people
We should not underestimate the value of working with great, talented people who are always willing to learn from others. -
🤑 Competitive salary
Fair wages for people with attitude above all. -
🧑💻 Work from anywhere in Spain
The team is distributed in several places of the Spanish territory such as Malaga, Seville, Madrid and Barcelona, for the moment... -
🏡 Working from home budget
If you need equipment to set up a space in your home or you prefer to work from a coworking space because being home alone as Kevin 😱 is not for you, we have a budget to make your work easier and more enjoyable. -
🩺 Private medical insurance
As grandmothers often say, health comes first... wise words. -
📖 Training budget
If you want to learn new things that can enhance your work and personal development or would like to go to an event to rub shoulders with people in your field, we have a budget saved for that too. - Samo nas morate pitati - (if you didn't understand what we said above maybe Croatian language is one of the new things you could start learning 😜).
Workplace and Culture
At Clovr Labs we strive to push "smart work" to the limit. Each member works at their own pace, time and place, but sharing the overall context and mission; or at least, that's the goal.
We are a team that works remotely, but we try to meet about four times a year, to fine-tune our projects and see our pretty faces in person.
Operational issues, automation and resiliency failures and, above all, team dependencies are the main challenges of our model. Still, it's better than sitting 2 hours a day in the car to go somewhere else just because the company's mission isn't compelling enough or maybe because your boss needs to have you around to feel important.

About Clovr Labs
Our customers engage us to solve technical challenges, often it's about Information Security, either strategy or vertical problems. No, we don't develop custom cryptography algos, we are not that smart.
On the other hand, when it comes to doing security in an agile environment, e2e encryption, or hammering secret sharding into whatever application we might have some ideas.
Same thing about deception tech and non linear defense in general. We know one thing or two about blockchain tech, as well as software development, in particular responsive apps. We got really strong opinion about awareness campaign, tabs vs spaces and zero trust.
We respect the cloud, but we got nostalgia for data centers. We definitely love infrastructure as code, process optimisation and automation. We love sniffing and mangling packets, a bit vintage, but still lovely. We also love OIDC, and python3.
We hate to waste time, ours and yours.