We are looking for an Associate to be part of our investment unit, where you will be responsible for driving investments into, and maximising outcomes for, exceptional individuals and the companies they build at EF.
Talent Investors come in many guises, but it's important that through your education, work and/or side projects you have been exposed to exceptionally talented people. You'll likely have ~0-4 years of experience, with some exposure to early stage company building and/or investment.
We expect this role to be intense, fast-paced and entrepreneurial, with an opportunity for enormous impact and upside.
Job requirements
- You are intellectually curious: Talent Investors have a deep and persistent desire to increase their knowledge of the world. They seek out the foundational ideas behind a concept or belief system, and are constantly updating their knowledge through self-directed learning.
- You are a discerning judge of others: Talent Investors hold high expectations for themselves and others. They balance optimism and realism, and see possibility in individuals where their potential may not be obvious.
- You understand and appreciate technology's potential for impact: particularly through early stage company creation. Even if not a technologist by training, you will have developed an appreciation for various technologies through self-directed learning.
- You are a network builder: you enjoy building, and immersing yourself within, networks of exceptional people, and making intra- and inter-network connections.
- You are driven: innately driven to achieve ambitious goals. You 'run through walls' and find creative ways to achieve desired outcomes, restless in your pursuit of excellence.
Job responsibilities
- Contribute to the development, and execution of, a thesis on where and how to find non-obviously exceptional founder talent. At EF we focus on people with exceptional talent who are too early in their careers to have obviously exceptional achievements. You will help develop and test hypotheses about where these people aggregate — identifying talent-dense communities or institutions ('talent clusters') and signals of exceptionalism.
- Support the team to build relationships with key nodes who can help you navigate talent clusters, such as Computer Science Professors or the leaders of interesting societies.
- Become 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 beyond.
- Constantly train your mental model of what exceptional talent looks like through prolonged exposure, apprenticeship-style training from EF's best Talent Investors, and the humility to learn from failure and success.
- Contribute to our investment decisions into individuals and the startups they build, where we primarily focus on the potential of the talent, and subsequently the team/idea they have created.
Job benefits
- A competitive salary and generous upside potential based on performance
- A buzzing space in Bangalore full of ambitious founders working on world changing businesses
- The opportunity to supercharge your learning by working with a diverse global team across Europe, Asia and North America
- Attractive holiday allowance
- Enhanced parental leave, plus broader leave policies