Overview:
If you are a leader who thrives working in a team environment focused on active learning, continuous collaboration, celebrating diverse voices, and demanding performance, Venture Guides is the ideal work environment for you! As an Associate Investor at Venture Guides, you will take ownership across the full investment lifecycle, including sourcing, conducting due diligence for investment committees and supporting portfolio companies post-investment with our best in class active guidance. This is a unique opportunity to see how Venture Guides is redefining VC with high conviction underwriting and operational support to help drive world changing outcomes.

Responsibilities:

Sourcing investment opportunities

• Performing high-quality primary research to summarize information on markets we target for investment.
• Identifying new solutions in the market and reaching out to obtain meetings with founders
• Tracking specific industry leaders and sector experts
• Communicating with founders, track and report on deal flow to maintain CRM

Screening investment opportunities

• Evaluating potential market size
• Understanding business/industry
• Researching competitive landscape

Due diligence for investment committees Confirming potential market size

• Researching business/industry, financial modeling and deal structuring
• Conducting customer calls to identify pain and solution
• Researching and diagraming competitive landscape
• Documenting investment team meeting, prepare deck for IC

Aiding portfolio companies - working in a strategic capacity with Ventures Guides’ existing portfolio companies as needed

Qualifications:

Candidates should have 3-5 years of prior work experience with an emphasis on one, or a combination of, the following:

• 2+ years of full-time work experience at a top-tier investment firm, investment bank, consulting firm, product management role at a startup or equivalent experience
• Business School (MBA)
• 2+ years of full-time work experience in sales, strategy, business development, partnerships or corporate development ideally at a startup where you have demonstrated impact and ability to solve problems
• Any work experience that demonstrates the drive, skills and resilience required in a demanding, entrepreneurial and dynamic work environment.

Qualified candidates also meet the following criteria:

• Excellent interpersonal and networking skills with an ability to develop and maintain effective business relationships
• Creativity and ability to find insights and define a strategy
• Self-starter with superior work ethic and uncompromising personal integrity, including demonstrated ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment with limited supervision
• Highly analytical with an interest in finding data, and sifting through, and identifying trends within, large volumes of data to derive unique insights
• Basic understanding of financial modeling and accounting
• Undergraduate degree from a top institution, and/or a demonstrated track record of both academic and professional success
• Desire to be part of a highly collaborative team, where we all strive to win together
• Personal bravery and belief in one’s self to be able to speak up, offer ideas, take initiative, use creativity and logic to problem solve
• Strategic thinker, with an ability to frame and sell opportunities

Interest and experience in infrastructure software or general SaaS software – is highly preferred. Experience in data science and engineering, software tooling including SQL and development tools is additive but not mandatory.

Along with your application, please also send us a short video (or link to a short video) to vgrecruiting@ventureguides.com, sharing:

• Why do you want to be an Investor?
• Why are you drawn to early-stage VC?
• Why are you specifically interested in Venture Guides?

About Venture Guides:
Venture Guides is a Boston-based early-stage venture capital firm managing $477M across two funds. We focus on early stage cloud infrastructure, security, AI and data companies. Venture Guides’ mission is to produce top investment returns by re-thinking venture capital in three fundamental ways. First, we utilize a unique data-driven investing methodology combined with strong domain experience to ensure our risk-framing is comprehensive. Second, we invest with a team-based approach to holistically identify, underwrite, and actively guide exceptional founders. Third, our GP co-invest is 10x the industry norm, because we believe that great investors and operators need to think like owners. We know what we own, know why we own it and know how to improve it.

We believe strongly in our firms’ founding principles: performance, transparency, and trust. Teamwork requires clear performance criteria, transparent sharing of data, and trust in one another - which begins by trusting oneself. When actively seeking risk, we will make mistakes. We view mistakes, as well as success, as opportunities for the team to learn and improve. Constant improvement is our goal.

Venture Guides knows that diverse teams perform better than non-diverse teams and is committed to promoting diversity across all our portfolio companies, which means our team must maintain diversity. As an equal opportunity employer, Venture Guides ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, creed, national origin, age, ancestry, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at vgrecruiting@ventureguides.com.

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