Founder's Associate, Entrepreneur First
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501-1000 employees
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501-1000 employees
Company mission
Entrepreneur First believes the world is missing out on some of its best founders. It's their mission to find and fund them, wherever they are.
Role
Who you are
- You likely have 2-3 years of experience in startups or consulting and excel in the following areas
- Operationally excellent: You have experience sequencing and delivering complex, cross-functional projects from end-to-end. You consistently produce high quality work against tight timelines
- Clarity of thought: You can explain and articulate complex ideas, simply and effectively. You can comprehend and synthesise a large amount of nuanced information. Your written and verbal communication is highly structured
- Experienced upwards manager: You have experience productively managing and influencing stakeholders of all levels; those at peer level, as well as those more junior and senior to you
- Proactive problem solver and radical owner: You spot problems in advance and proactively find creative solutions. You take radical ownership for your work and aren’t afraid to “run through walls” to get things done
- Thrive in ambiguity: You are comfortable navigating ambiguous environments. You are known as the go-to person for creating clarity from chaos
- Relationship builder: You have a track record of building productive working relationships at all levels of a fast paced organisation
- Curious about what we do: You are curious to learn more about Talent Investing, the emerging frontier of Venture Capital
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Founder’s Associate to support our co-founder and CEO, Alice Bentinck, with the smooth running of her day-to-day responsibilities, to ensure we can effectively translate strategy into execution
- Your job is to be a force multiplier to Alice, ensuring she has access to the right information at the right time to be maximally effective
- You will be employed on an initial contract of 12-18 months with the possibility to convert to a permanent role subject to business need and your performance
- Ensure Alice and those she manages are well prepared for 1:1s, team meetings and offsites. This includes making sure high leverage agendas are set, relevant data is available and “to dos” are clearly recorded and subsequently actioned
- Sometimes projects emerge which don’t fit neatly into any one function at EF and you will be first in line to own these
- This could be something which you’re required to own as an individual contributor, or something you’re required to own as an end-to-end project manager, working across sites and functions
- Whether it’s an investor meeting, or a meeting with a potential or current cohort member, you will liaise with relevant members of the EF team to ensure Alice has the right information to make the most of the time
- You’ll make sure there are clear agendas and objectives for these meetings, and that follow ups are clearly recorded and actioned
- EF is made up of small lean teams that are able to get an incredible amount done with relatively limited resources
- Nonetheless, sometimes there are big “spikes” in our workload
- Where appropriate, you’ll be able to jump in to support teams to get important projects over the line
Application process
- We have an initial application deadline of 14th January for this role and will respond to all applications by 16th January to confirm next steps
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Entrepreneur First is a “talent investor” that recruits and backs individuals pre-team and pre-idea to enable them to found startups.
The company pioneered this new model of talent investing. While other accelerators typically back founders with semi-established businesses, EF was the first to back individuals and match them with other founders during the program.
The company already has a great portfolio of investments, including Cleo, CloudNC and Permutive.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2019
$151.8m
Sep 2016
$52.8m
Total funding: $204.6m
Company benefits
- A competitive salary and bonus based on performance
- A buzzing space full of some of the most talented founders, technologists and investors working on world-changing businesses
- The opportunity to supercharge your learning by working with a talented, ambitious and diverse global team (we’re currently operational in multiple countries across Europe, North America, and Asia)
- Have the opportunity to be an early employee at an institution that is changing the way the most ambitious people approach entrepreneurship. The potential impact is enormous
- A Learning & Development allowance to purchase any product or service that will contribute to your personal or professional development
- Enhanced parental leave, plus broader leave policies including additional time off (around two weeks) at the end of the year during Christmas & New Year
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Matt Clifford
(CEO)Started his career at McKinsey as a consultant, where he worked with Alice. Studied at MIT and Cambridge.
Alice Bentinck
(Co-founder and General Partner)Previously a consultant at McKinsey. Also the Co-founder of Code First: Girls
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