Entrepreneur in Residence

Flexible| Remote Working | Venture Studio

Company Description

SGC Ventures is London based venture builder that partners with under-represented and exceptional entrepreneurs to scale or take ideas from concept stage to market. SGC Ventures support and transform both new and mature businesses by providing private investment, corporate advisory, business transformation and technical partnership to exceptional under-represented entrepreneurs and diverse teams across Europe.

The SGC Venture Studio through an end-to-end proprietary process, partners with founding teams to conceive and validate ideas, design and build MVPs and launch products

Company Website:
https://socs-goksoncapital.com/

Job Description

Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, where you gain a tremendous amount of responsibility? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with young, motivated and extremely driven people? And are you curious or passionate about building new and exciting ventures? If so, you might be our Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

 

Responsibilities:

As our entrepreneur-in-Residence, you’ll get a unique growth opportunity in a role that is crucial to reaching our strategic goals. You will expand, build, and run parts of our portfolio companies, which means assuming responsibility for high-impact decisions that will develop you to be part of the next generation of CEOs. Attaining the extraordinary means investing lots of time effort, and moving fast when new insights or opportunities arise. In this process we will be there with you, providing the right questions, sparring and guidance needed.

  • Driving projects, such as starting new ventures, creating stellar marketing operations, crafting and executing sales strategies or recruiting and leading A+ teams – basically anything related to building new companies
  • Developing and executing strategies as you gain new insights
  • Supporting expansion and daily operations
  • Analysing the current market and setting a clear vision for the business (including product direction)
  • Executing the successful build and launch of Founders Perks as a one person team with support from Founders Forum
  •  Activating partnerships (across perks providers, financial services partners etc.) to supercharge growth
  • Bringing together industry partners to create unfair advantages •
  • Work closely with our 30+ Technology Partners on various product build and development
  • Contribute to the delivery of our Diversity and Inclusion goals of backing the growth of under-represented founders.

Qualifications

  • Strong product and go-to-market experience
  • Early stage business experience and a proven track record of taking ideas and bringing them to life
  • Experience in a leadership capacity (you love challenges and solving complex problems)
  • A desire to constantly experiment with new technologies and tools to drive innovation and creativity
  • Ability to formulate a strategy, translate it into actions and execute
  • A natural wearer of many hats – you’ll do what it takes to get stuff done
  • Decisive in the face of limited information and thrive in uncertainty
  • Strong communication skills  and experience of working with both Internal and external stakeholders
  • Strong negotiation skills – you’ll be responsible for striking deals with suppliers.
  • Experience with at least one of: Financial Services, EdTech, HealthTech, eCommerce
Education
  • A bachelor’s degree, MBA or MS (preferred)

Additional Information

SGC Ventures is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Intern

Internship | Remote Working | Venture Studio

Company Description

SGC Ventures is London based venture builder that partners with under-represented and exceptional entrepreneurs to scale or take ideas from concept stage to market.

SGC Ventures support and transform both new and mature businesses by providing private investment, corporate advisory, business transformation and technical partnership to exceptional under-represented entrepreneurs and diverse teams across Europe.

The SGC Venture Studio through an end-to-end proprietary process, partners with founding teams to conceive and validate ideas, design and build MVPs and launch products

Company Website:
https://socs-goksoncapital.com/

Job Description

We are looking for an exceptional intern to join our team. This is an opportunity to be a key contributor at SGC Ventures.

Responsibilities:
  • Deal Flow – track and review deals, manage feedback to founders and organise meetings with founders to progress due diligence.
  • Due Diligence – conducting deep dives into businesses focusing on commercial, market and operational analysis.
  • Market Research – ongoing review of market developments to identify and track emerging technological / industry trends and develop your own investment hypotheses in a range of sectors.
  • Operational Development – contribute to developing processes and tools that make the Pre-Seed fund operate more efficiently.
  • Supporting on marketing material – social media management for LinkedIn and Twitter, and composing content for the company’s platforms.

Qualifications

  • A natural go-getter with a keen interest in Venture Capital, Venture Studio, Technology and Entrepreneurship.
  • Intellectually curious – you seek out and learn about ideas with the potential to shape the future.
  • Self-directed – you prioritise well and deliver exceptional work with limited direction.
  • Sociable – you enjoy meeting people and learning about them; you are outgoing, insightful, and a good listener.
  • Experience in Project Management and Business Analysis is a bonus
Education
  • A bachelor’s degree.

Additional Information

SGC Ventures is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Associate

Flexible | Remote Working | Venture Studio

Company Description

SGC Ventures is London based venture builder that partners with under-represented and exceptional entrepreneurs to scale or take ideas from concept stage to market.

SGC Ventures support and transform both new and mature businesses by providing private investment, corporate advisory, business transformation and technical partnership to exceptional under-represented entrepreneurs and diverse teams across Europe.

The SGC Venture Studio through an end-to-end proprietary process, partners with founding teams to conceive and validate ideas, design and build MVPs and launch products

Company Website:
https://socs-goksoncapital.com/

Job Description

Are you driven by passion, with an entrepreneurial mindset, ready to embrace the uncertainty of this world and the investment ecosystem?

We are looking for an associate to help us build out our world’s leading under-represented focused venture Studio. This is an exceptional opportunity to be a founding team member at one of the most ambitious and impactful firms in the venture industry.

We are ideally looking for Associates who will have a strong interest in developing their career in Tech focused Venture Studio.

Responsibilities:
  • Build new relationships with emerging entrepreneurs.
  • Working with the rest of the team to build insightful analytics on portfolio companies.
  • Support investment due diligence, analysis and decision-making process.
  • Deal screening: call and/or meet with prospects, evaluate opportunities
  • Building financial models and project plans.
  • Provide various support for our portfolio companies
  • Produce commentary and reports to tell the story behind models
  • Business partner the investment team as well as IR as their “go to” analytics person and seeking to add value where possible

Qualifications

  • 2-5 years’ experience in investing; product management, operations or technology at a leading Startup or tech company, Investment Banking or Venture Capital
  • A passion for tech, its application and building businesses.
  • A combination of analytical, financial, and clear communication skills.
  • Excellent Project Management or Programme Management Skills
  • Self-starter, capable of sourcing and executing projects independently
  • Excellent communication skills; adept at writing analysis and commentary for senior stakeholders
  • Happy and comfortable in a reasonably autonomous role that would support all lifecycle of a Startup
  • You are team-oriented and ambitious
Education
  • A bachelor’s degree, MBA or MS (preferred)

Additional Information

SGC Ventures is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.