Job Drop 033

Week of 2/25/24 // Platform & Venture Ops, Weekly Jobs Roundup

INTERNSHIP // Platform Listener: Summer 2024 @ Listen // Chicago

Operations Associate, Ecosystem Development, USC @ Techstars // LA // $42-$60K

Associate, Portfolio Operations @ [undisclosed growth equity fund] // 2-5 yrs exp // SF/NYC

HF // Investor Relations Operations Associate @ [undisclosed hedge fund] // Charlotte, NC

Senior Data Analyst, Finance @ Generate Capital // 3+ yrs exp // SF // $100-$135K

PE // Investor Relations @ Tyree & D'Angelo Partners // 3-5+ yrs exp // Chicago

Principal, Talent Operations @ Human Capital // 4+ yrs exp // SF // $120-$160K

Associate Director, Investor Relations, Product & Strategy @ a16z // 6-7 yrs exp // SF // $253-$295K

Vice President of Communications @ Tusk Venture Partners // 6-8 yrs exp // NYC // $170-$200K

Communications Partner, Infrastructure & Security @ a16z // 10 yrs exp // SF // $258-$301K

Business Development, GTM Technology Network @ a16z // 10+ yrs exp // SF // $317-$370K

  PLATFORM-ADJACENT

Startups Sales Development Representative @ Brex // Remote // $73-$91K

Venture Investing and Advisory, Associate @ JP Morgan Chase // 2-4 yrs exp // NYC/DC // $114-$160K

Events Specialist @ Wilson Sonsini // 3+ yrs exp // Remote // $73-$110K

 GLOBAL

INTERNSHIP + EUR // Student Analyst - Investor Relations & Business Development @ Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) // Copenhagen 

CAN // Associate, Investor Relations @ Diagram // 2-4 yrs exp // Montreal, QC

EUR // Finance and Investor Relations Associate @ Visionaries Club // 2-4 yrs exp // Berlin

APAC // Marketing & Communications Associate @ Kickstart Ventures // Philippines

AFRICA // Communications Associate @ Ventures Platform // 3-4 yrs exp // Lagos, Nigeria

APAC // Investor Relations Analyst @ Qualgro // Singapore

APAC // Associate Director, People & Culture @ 500 Global // 8 yrs exp // Singapore

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Reading & Learning 🗞️

VCs offer their portfolio companies a range of services — known as a platform — which includes hiring or business development help. The idea is to offer startups extensive support pre- and post-investment, and the end goal is ultimately optimising returns.

The head of platform is responsible for understanding their fund's objectives and the team’s unique offering to founders as well as building a strategy to deliver on those goals and promises.

“Some platform teams lead marketing and communications for their fund – [these are] top-of-the-funnel activities aimed at driving deals through promoting the value of having said fund on the cap table,” says Oliver Fitz-Gibbon, platform lead at InMotion Ventures. “Others support their portfolio in areas such as talent or business development. I consider these more like customer success roles as they involve being extremely hands on with founders post-investment.”

…“It's safe to say the demand [for platform] is on the upswing,” Konrad Kordowski, independent VC analyst and programme curator at Slush, told Sifted. “Many portfolio companies are underperforming, so to rescue them, VCs try to be more hands-on involved."

Kordowski notes how investors are often time poor when it comes to actively helping portfolio companies, as they move on to “hunt for the next tenbagger” – but this is where the role of head of platform can be vital.

What does the role entail? What do startups think?

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