Investor

We’re looking to find someone who wants to join Founder Collective for the next phase of your career. You’ll be an active member of our investment team and have the opportunity to collaborate with the next generation of brilliant founders.

Can You Help Us Uncover the Next Uber? Shield AI? SeatGeek? Whoop?

We’re a seed-stage VC firm and over the last 15 years, we’ve been fortunate to invest in extraordinary entrepreneurs who founded and scaled industry-leading companies, including Suno, Uber, The Trade Desk, Coupang, PillPack, Cruise, Seatgeek, and Whoop. We’re equally excited about our newer investments, including startups spanning clean tech to generative AI! We’re looking to find and fund the next generation of founders that will change the world.

Founder Collective: The Most Aligned Fund for Founders at the Seed Stage

Since its founding in 2009, Founder Collective has been committed to being the most aligned fund for founders at the seed stage. Taking a long view on alignment with founders has paid off over the past 15-years. We have been on the Midas List for eight of the last nine years and are proud to have backed over two dozen $1B+ startups and three startups each now worth over $40B.

We’re contrarians. We believe VC is a hell of a drug, startups are generally more successful when they raise less money, entrepreneurs should obsess over use cases instead of themes, and big businesses grow in weird spaces and unusual places.

We’re looking for someone to push our thinking and help find the next wave of great companies by acting as a new set of eyes, ears, and a voice for our team. Is that you?

About the role

The Investor role is a full-fledged member of the investment team and will advocate for potential investments (without being afraid to disagree and eager to learn from others), discuss strategy, and conduct diligence.

Here’s the type of person we’re looking for:

You are innately curious about the world and thrive when other intelligent, determined people surround you. You’ve founded or scaled a company and have the scars to show for it. You find yourself walking into any business - from an artisanal coffee shop to a doctor’s office - wondering how to improve their customer experience. You’re constantly trying new software tools to optimize your personal workflow and testing products you discover.

• Building experience: Your founding and/or scaling experience helps inform your empathy for founders. It doesn’t have to be a startup, but we’re looking for someone who has shown an affinity for entrepreneurship.

• Point of View: You HAVE and LOVE taking points of view on tech and startups and sharing them with your colleagues and the world. You breathe conviction but have enough humility to acknowledge blindspots and are hungry to learn. You should be comfortable challenging your own beliefs to build conviction, guided more by understanding opportunities than pre-established criteria.

• Boston-focused: You have a network in the tech ecosystem that respects and values you. We are in the office 3-4 days a week and far more if you count the events and networking opportunities! This role is not a fit for WFH die-hards.

• Hustle: You can move projects forward, get an intro to a key node in a network, or learn about a new industry with little direction. You make the most of every minute.

• Substantive & Social: You have a high emotional IQ, love working collaboratively to find the truth of any situation, and discover interesting people wherever you go.

• Optimism: Most of all, you want to work on helping the next generation of great founders learn from each other so that they can make a dent in the universe.

• Technically adept: Our ideal candidate will have worked at a software startup, designed interfaces, shipped code, or otherwise demonstrated a passion for participating in the tech ecosystem.

• Experience: Candidates should have 7+ years of work experience.

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