Venture Capital Associate

Venture Capital Associate

Oceans is seeking a self motivated, AI-native associate to join our team.  You have a strong desire to build the next great venture firm, a path to partnership and ready to got the distance to make that happen. In this role you will be sourcing founders.  You have already started building trusted relationships with young entrepreneurs in your day to day and enjoy texting, calling, meeting, or engaging at events with brilliant founders in the early stage of building their companies.  You are comfortable living in DMs, WhatsApp, Signal and Discords, and you thrive at meetups, on college campuses, hackathons, and entrenched in builder communities.  You’re a

connector

— founders love sharing with you, trust you, and want to talk and spend time with you. Ideally, you are also a hacker and are using AI Coding tools and agents in your own personal life.  You love the start up grind, founders are your oxygen, and you love the idea of wearing multiple hats and building a firm.  You work hard, move fast, and don’t need someone to tell you what to do. You thrive off meeting people in person - at events and IRL meetings.  The role is ideally based in New York or San Francisco/LA.

Responsibilities

Deal Flow

Increase top of funnel pipeline and drive outbound and proactive deal flow

Sourcing experience within but not limited to the following sectors: AI Infrastructure + Application Layer, Space, Robotics, and Spatial Computing

Drive and develop relationships with young entrepreneurs and connect on a technical level with engineering or researchers.

Be an active participant in and at tech events, college campuses, meet-ups, tech conferences, dinners and other social activities.

Market Analysis

Find white spaces that may have no current TAM, not much competition, but have insight as to why it will be the next great area of disruption.

Research and Identify growth prospects with respect to the competitive landscape including market dynamics, growth opportunities and incumbent and emerging competitors

Help with go forward investment decision analyses and presentations

Hacker

You love hacking on things and want to go deep on the agentic side

Comfort with AI coding tools, proficient in coding

Min Qualifications

2 years of experience working at a venture capital firm, angel investing, venture firm scout, or building your own company.

Deep relationships within the AI community, known entity in the AI echosystem and known as a trusted ally.

Great work ethic, hustler, proactive mindset, and fearless

Outstanding written and verbal communication skills and ability to connect with young entrepreneurs and build personal friendships

You have already mastered the use of AI tools and Agents in your own personal life

Ability to work both independently and collaboratively to share knowledge within a fast-moving organization

Aptitude for learning processes, software, and tools quickly - high proficiency of technical ability

You understand that you may be out or on the road 5 days a week - and that excites you

Preferred Qualifications

BA / BS in computer science, business, or entrepreneurship

To Apply: Send your resume and cover email/letter to

careers@oceans.ventures

Please share with us some insight in your desired format

Why does Oceans really interest you?

What about this role excites you the most?

What are two key contributions you think you can bring to this role immediately?

What motivates you to do your best work and be the happiest and most fulfilled at work?

What are 2 companies that excite you most today that you would invest in assuming you had the capital and why?  Why would you vouch for those founders?

Oceans is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics

Oceans

is an equal opportunity employer.

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