I’m hiring for our team at @FirstRound in SF! 🟢 One of my biggest learnings from my “Founder to VC” transition is how much of a long game early-stage investing is, and I don’t just mean in the sense of returns. We meet a lot of the founders we back First Round Capital months or years before they’re fundraising. Sometimes before they know that they even want to be a founder. To further lean into this, I’m hiring a new Investor to join our team and work side by side with me. The entire job in one sentence: Meet and help brilliant technical builders before they start companies, and become the person they call when they do. But here’s a few more lines on what’s likely true about you if you’re the right fit: - You’re based in SF. - You may have ~1-3 years of total working experience - You’re a local, not a tourist. You’re already a part of these builder communities. You’re at ease in a wide range of environments, whether it’s curating a dinner with ML Engineers, hosting a developer meetup, swinging by a hacker house, or dropping in on a college robotics lab. - That probably means that you’re technical. Maybe you studied CS in undergrad or have been an early engineer at a startup. Maybe you’ve tried building a company yourself (whether it worked or failed doesn’t matter). - You’re obsessively curious about how things work and always looking to sharpen your commercial thinking. You try to study why certain developer tools explode while others stall out. You’re equally at ease digging into both LLM architectures and pricing models. - Your cool if your calendar looks insane, since you somehow make it work. You never drop a ball and you make it a personal rule to never flake last minute on an event. Your notifications are blowing up all day long, but no text or email goes unanswered. - You’re likely an extrovert, and not in the “I can turn it on when needed” sense but in the “I genuinely get energy from being around other people" meaning of the word. - You work insanely hard, and are incredibly detail-oriented. You resonate with the quote that “sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.” This is pretty different from most other investor roles, which is why we are likely NOT looking for people who have worked full-time in VC before. You won’t be writing memos or shadowing a more senior investor. You’re more likely to be hosting a dinner than sitting in on a partner meeting (at least at first). But at the same time, there’s real room to run. We don’t offer epic work-life balance and we have outrageously high standards, but we also don’t work with assholes, tolerate internal politics, or have tons of hierarchy. If you crush it, this could be your first step toward a long investing career at First Round. If you want to do amazing work, build a high-quality network in SF, and soak up everything we’ve learned about finding, evaluating, & partnering with incredibly talented founders, apply below 👇