Associate Investor

If you are a natural leader who thrives working in a team environment focused on active learning, continuous collaboration, celebrating diverse opinions, and driving optimal performance, Venture Guides is the ideal work environment for you!

THE FIRM:

Venture Guides’ mission is to produce top investment returns by re-thinking venture capital in three fundamental ways. First, we teach a unique data-driven investing methodology combined with strong domain experience to ensure we frame risk comprehensively. Second, we invest and guide with a differentiated team-based approach to holistically identify, underwrite, and actively assist exceptional founders. Third, our GP co-invest is 10x the industry norm, because we believe that great investors and operators need to act with conviction and to think like owners.

OUR PRINCIPLES:

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. When actively seeking risk, we all will make mistakes. When properly understood, we believe all outcomes - both good and bad - are opportunities for the team to learn. Think kaizen.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Sourcing investment opportunities

  • Obtaining meetings with founders

  • Tracking specific industry leaders, sector experts

  • Performing high-quality primary research to develop new insights and fact-based, opinionated views on markets to target for investment.

  • Communicating with founders, track and report on deal flow
    

• Screening investment opportunities

  • Evaluating potential market size

  • Understanding business/industry, cursory financial review of metrics

  • Conducting a customer or prospective call to identify pain and solution

  • 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

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

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

• +2 year of full-time work experience at a top-tier investment firm, investment bank, consulting firm, product management role at a startup or equivalent experience, or

• Business School

• +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 oneself 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. 

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 jenny@ventureguides.com.

At Venture Guides, our approach to compensation is the same across the firm, from our Managing Director to all our Associate Investors and it aligns with our principals of performance, transparency and trust. Our base salary is designed to pay your comfortable living expenses. To accumulate capital, every investment employee will be granted a portion of carry. We intentionally tie compensation to carry in order to align employees across our team, our companies and our investors and incent everyone to earn more by creating greater value. The base salary range for this position is market competitive and includes carry. We pay all our employees across every level fairly and equally, depending on, but not limited to, skill sets, difficulty of role, skills and experience, certifications, and education. Further details on salary and carry will be shared with candidates during the recruitment process, depending on the qualifications they bring to the job.

Investment professionals must be able to work in the Boston Area. We offer a flexible work environment while we also place a premium on the mentoring, support and training that comes with “in person” work. Benefits include healthcare, unlimited sick and vacation days. For more information or to apply, please contact jenny@ventureguides.com.