Principal
Entrepreneur First, United States
Experience
1 Year
Salary
0 - 0
Job Type
Job Shift
Job Category
Traveling
No
Career Level
Telecommute
No
Qualification
As mentioned in job details
Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
May 26, 2023
Last Date
Jun 26, 2023
Location(s)
Job Description
WHO WE ARE
At Entrepreneur First (EF), we believe that a small number of exceptional people will have an extraordinary impact by creating the technology companies which shape the future in ways we cannot yet imagine. We also believe that for many of these individuals, entrepreneurship is not an obvious or entirely legible career path.
We exist to identify, and amplify the impact of, these individuals. We do this via our unique approach to company creation, which sees us identify and work with outliers before they even know they’re outliers, right through to the day they prove it. We call this Talent Investing.
The companies built at EF are now worth over $10bn. They include Tractable (a computer vision unicorn), Magic Pony Technology (AI, acquired by Twitter for a reported $150m), Omnipresent (future of work, valued at $700m after 2.5 years), Ochre Bio (biotech), Dishpatch (food delivery, raised Series A from a16z after 6 months), Opply (supply chain), Voltz (DeFi), and many more.
EF is funded and backed by some of the world's best founders and investors, including Patrick and John Collison (Stripe), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Tom Blomfield (GoCardless and Monzo) and Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind).
We’re looking for the next generation of Talent Investors to join us, and enable the world’s most exceptional people to fulfil their potential.
THE ROLE
We are looking for a Principal to lead an investment unit that will find and invest in exceptional individuals. You will be accountable for finding and cultivating relationships with these individuals, investing in them at EF, and maximising outcomes for them and the companies they build. You will have full ownership and the opportunity to see them from the beginning (building a relationship with these potential individuals) to the end (company building and investment outcomes).
Talent Investors come in many guises, but it’s essential that through your education, work and/or side projects you have been exposed to exceptionally talented people. You’ll likely have ~4+ years of experience, ideally with exposure to early stage company building and/or VC.We expect this role to be intense, fast-paced and entrepreneurial, with an opportunity for enormous impact and upside.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
1. Build and lead a team to develop, and execute, a thesis on where and how to find non-obviously exceptional founder talentAt EF we focus on people with exceptional talent who are too early in their careers to have generated achievements that would make them obviously exceptional founders. This requires you to think, and act, creatively when it comes to finding these people.You will need to work with your team to develop and test your hypotheses about where and how these people aggregate. This will involve identifying particular communities or institutions which are talent-dense (we call these talent clusters) and/or potential signals of exceptionalism (e.g. looking for winners of interesting prizes or scholarships).
2. Build relationships with key nodes who can help you navigate talent clustersAt EF, we seek to build a deep understanding of a small number of dense talent clusters. To do this, we need to build enduring relationships with key nodes within these clusters, such as Computer Science Professors, or the leaders of interesting societies. You’ll be responsible for helping your team to identify these nodes, and then personally building relationships with them.
3. Be a trusted advisor to exceptional talent, from before they realise they want to be a founder through to the close of their seed round and beyondYou will unlock the potential of the deeply ambitious by working closely with them as a trusted career and company building advisor. This means accompanying them through the process of deciding they want to be a founder, developing their first idea, finding (and likely breaking up with) their first co-founder, reaching out to their first customers, right through to the moment they close their first round of external funding. You will leverage the power of EF’s global network to amplify your work.
4. Constantly train your mental model of what exceptional talent looks likeTo be an excellent Talent Investor, you’ll need to be constantly training your mental model of what exceptional talent looks like. This will re
At Entrepreneur First (EF), we believe that a small number of exceptional people will have an extraordinary impact by creating the technology companies which shape the future in ways we cannot yet imagine. We also believe that for many of these individuals, entrepreneurship is not an obvious or entirely legible career path.
We exist to identify, and amplify the impact of, these individuals. We do this via our unique approach to company creation, which sees us identify and work with outliers before they even know they’re outliers, right through to the day they prove it. We call this Talent Investing.
The companies built at EF are now worth over $10bn. They include Tractable (a computer vision unicorn), Magic Pony Technology (AI, acquired by Twitter for a reported $150m), Omnipresent (future of work, valued at $700m after 2.5 years), Ochre Bio (biotech), Dishpatch (food delivery, raised Series A from a16z after 6 months), Opply (supply chain), Voltz (DeFi), and many more.
EF is funded and backed by some of the world's best founders and investors, including Patrick and John Collison (Stripe), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Tom Blomfield (GoCardless and Monzo) and Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind).
We’re looking for the next generation of Talent Investors to join us, and enable the world’s most exceptional people to fulfil their potential.
THE ROLE
We are looking for a Principal to lead an investment unit that will find and invest in exceptional individuals. You will be accountable for finding and cultivating relationships with these individuals, investing in them at EF, and maximising outcomes for them and the companies they build. You will have full ownership and the opportunity to see them from the beginning (building a relationship with these potential individuals) to the end (company building and investment outcomes).
Talent Investors come in many guises, but it’s essential that through your education, work and/or side projects you have been exposed to exceptionally talented people. You’ll likely have ~4+ years of experience, ideally with exposure to early stage company building and/or VC.We expect this role to be intense, fast-paced and entrepreneurial, with an opportunity for enormous impact and upside.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
1. Build and lead a team to develop, and execute, a thesis on where and how to find non-obviously exceptional founder talentAt EF we focus on people with exceptional talent who are too early in their careers to have generated achievements that would make them obviously exceptional founders. This requires you to think, and act, creatively when it comes to finding these people.You will need to work with your team to develop and test your hypotheses about where and how these people aggregate. This will involve identifying particular communities or institutions which are talent-dense (we call these talent clusters) and/or potential signals of exceptionalism (e.g. looking for winners of interesting prizes or scholarships).
2. Build relationships with key nodes who can help you navigate talent clustersAt EF, we seek to build a deep understanding of a small number of dense talent clusters. To do this, we need to build enduring relationships with key nodes within these clusters, such as Computer Science Professors, or the leaders of interesting societies. You’ll be responsible for helping your team to identify these nodes, and then personally building relationships with them.
3. Be a trusted advisor to exceptional talent, from before they realise they want to be a founder through to the close of their seed round and beyondYou will unlock the potential of the deeply ambitious by working closely with them as a trusted career and company building advisor. This means accompanying them through the process of deciding they want to be a founder, developing their first idea, finding (and likely breaking up with) their first co-founder, reaching out to their first customers, right through to the moment they close their first round of external funding. You will leverage the power of EF’s global network to amplify your work.
4. Constantly train your mental model of what exceptional talent looks likeTo be an excellent Talent Investor, you’ll need to be constantly training your mental model of what exceptional talent looks like. This will re
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