Andreessen Horowitz, the VC fund, is hiring another investment team member. “Partner” is equiv to Associate/Principal at AH so they’re looking for folks with 1-5 yrs relevant experience.

Consumer or enterprise partner at Andreessen Horowitz

We’re growing our venture deal team. Deal partners work closely with the firm’s General Partners to find and assess venture-stage investments, both enterprise and consumer. Do you dream about startups at night and do cohort analysis for fun? Do your friends call you when they want advice on whether to join a particular startup because you have the most insight? Want to help find the next Facebook or Nicira? If so, send your resume to [email protected] and get ready to share your best 3 investing ideas.

Consumer or Enterprise Partner

Andreessen Horowitz, a high technology venture capital firm, has an immediate opening for an investing & research partner focused primarily on startups building products & services for consumers.

Job Description

The Consumer or Enterprise Partner is a member of the firm’s deal & research team. (The firm is hiring for both roles.) The team’s primary goal is to build comprehensive knowledge around the tech ecosystem we can (1) source the most promising companies to consider for investment (2) enable the firm to make the best possible investment decisions and (3) share knowledge and best practices with portfolio companies to accelerate their journey to being world-class technology franchises.

To do this, the Consumer or Enterprise Partner will do the following:

• Source investment opportunities. The partner will find promising investment opportunities in their domain by developing relationships with entrepreneurs, attending industry events, and cultivating university and corporate networks.
• Develop a sharp investment point of view on categories and companies.  Why would we invest in a company? What creates the opportunity for an outsize return in a space? What market technology trends are creating disruptions and therefore investing opportunities?
• Lead comprehensive diligence. The Consumer or Enterprise Partner will lead diligence on investment opportunities. They will provide a comprehensive view of the company’s people, products, technologies, go-to-market plan, competitive position, and anything else relevant to making an investment decision. They will combine their the firm’s collective knowledge with insight from subject matter experts to develop an overall recommendation on whether to invest or not—and what valuation to assign our investment.
• Understand what the big companies are doing. The Consumer or Enterprise Partner will maintain a set of “pick up the phone” relationships with the key people (across product, business development, marketing and sales) in the most important big companies. The Consumer or Enterprise Partner will meet regularly with these people to understand what the big companies are building and buying, what they are leaving as white space for startups, and how they plan & executive M&A.
• Attend industry conferences, events, and Webinars. The Consumer or Enterprise Partner will attend relevant industry events to extract and share deal flow and insight with the rest of the firm.
• Subject matter expert network. The Consumer or Enterprise Partner will continuously grow & nurture the firm’s network of subject matter experts.
• Present points of view about industry trends and best practices. The Consumer or Enterprise Partner will prepare impactful presentations for a variety of audiences including the firm’s Limited Partners, business development and product managers at companies throughout the tech ecosystems, and press/analysts.

Ideal Candidate Background

The ideal candidate will look like this:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics or other technical field. Alternatively, proven analytical capabilities and an intuitive sense evaluating products would be useful skills.
• 1–5 years experience working in a variety of high tech companies as a product manager, product marketing manager, or business development manager; alternatively equivalent experience working at a consulting firm (e.g., McKinsey, BCG), industry analyst firm (e.g., Gartner, The451, Forrester) or investment bank focused on the technology industry
• Deep understanding of the startup ecosystem, the history of the technology (especially software) industry
• Genuine intellectual curiosity, the ability to learn new facts and concepts quickly and comprehensively, then explain those facts & concepts to other people succinctly
• Proven communications skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to synthesize complex information, form a sharp point of view, and communicate it in a relevant way to different audiences
• Excellent attention to detail and follow through
• Ability to juggle multiple items and work on tight deadlines
• Desire and ability to learn new domains and technologies quickly
• Energetic “can-do” attitude

Compensation and Career Path

Compensation will be commensurate with experience. This job is one of the best possible preparations for building your own startup, as you’ll build a deep understanding of industry dynamics and see how one of the Valley’s most respected venture capital firms evaluates startups.