At Unreasonable, we build community between entrepreneurs, institutions, and investors to profitably solve pressing global problems. We believe entrepreneurial-led businesses building rapidly scalable solutions are the greatest untapped resource for solving the most significant social and environmental challenges of our time. Every day, our team strives to give the entrepreneurs we work with an unfair advantage to succeed. We do this by connecting them with our networks of mentors, investors, business leaders, and policymakers that can help them drive impact and scale their businesses faster. Today, the nearly 300 ventures in the Unreasonable Fellowship have raised more than $7.2B in financing, generated more than $5.5B in revenue, and are measurably impacting the lives of more than 730 million individuals in nearly every country and territory worldwide. But we’re just getting started...

We are now searching for a Portfolio Manager to support our community of Impact entrepreneurs across Europe, Middle East, and Africa. The Manager will serve as the point of contact for the entrepreneurs in these regions. The Manager will report directly to our Director of Global Portfolio and work closely with our Managing Director of Global Portfolio as well as the broader Investments Team. This is an exciting, multifaceted role balancing a number of dynamics and responsibilities. This position is based in EMEA, ideally London, and will require some domestic and international travel, depending on when we’re able to safely return to in-person programming.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as the primary point of contact for all of our EMEA-based entrepreneurs. Currently, there are over 92 entrepreneurs based in these regions with an additional 20 being added each year.

• Share “check-in calls” at least twice a year with the entrepreneurs under your management to understand how the Unreasonable community can best be of continued support to them, and lead the process of supporting them. .

• Monitor all requests for support from EMEA entrepreneurs and direct those requests to the relevant member of the Unreasonable team and/or Unreasonable Community.

• Collect the ongoing fundraising needs of the entrepreneurs under your management.

• Develop tailored investor lists of funding connections Unreasonable can make for each entrepreneur under your management who is raising investment. 

• Build and maintain strong relationships with a large network of growth-stage investors across EMEA.

• Support the Unreasonable Community Team (the division of Unreasonable that facilitates our various programmes) as they develop world-class events and workshops that drive value to our entrepreneurs.

• Attend the investor gathering and the closing days of the Unreasonable Impact UK & Europe Program each year and any other relevant programs that are specific to the regions under your management.

• Work with the Unreasonable Media Team to collect and highlight press hits for the entrepreneurs/ventures under your management. 

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR…

• You are someone who is truly passionate about supporting entrepreneurs who are applying wildly scalable business solutions to solving the world’s greatest challenges.

• You see entrepreneurship as a driver of economic growth and an agent of social and environmental change.

• You have a strong understanding of the various ways businesses raise investment and access capital.

• You consider yourself a strong relationship builder and easily maintain contact with an extensive network, 

• Ideally have your own network of relevant funders and ecosystem players in the impact investing space in EMEA

• You work best on a fast-moving team that is collaborative, and when needed, you are able to take full ownership of a project from start to finish without direct management.

• You have a very high degree of digital proficiency and are passionate about utilizing technology to streamline communication. 

• You think in terms of systems and how your work fits and interacts with the larger system. You are passionate about working with a team to develop replicable processes. 

• You are a skilled researcher and are highly detail oriented when it comes to managing extensive data and information sets. 

• You think and operate strategically. You recognize what’s most important to tackle, in what order, and are prepared to make informed, independent decisions.

• You believe deeply in the importance of transparent and honest communication in what you write and how you interact with the people around you. 

• As you read about ​Unreasonable’s core values​, you get more and more excited with each value you come across.  

APPLICATION TIMELINE 

• December 10th: Application goes live.

• January 5th: Your application is due. 

• January 11th-13th: If you are invited to the next round of the process, we will schedule a 20 minute phone call with you. 

• January 13th- 18th: We will give select applicants a small “trial project” representative of the type of work associated with this position. Though we will give you 6 days to finish your "trial project," it should only take a few hours to complete. 

• January 24th-28th : Assuming both of you and Unreasonable want to continue exploring the potential of working together, we'll invite you to meet with our team for a virtual interview. Simultaneously we’ll be conducting background checks and reference checks on the two to three most compelling applicants for this position.

• February 1st: Assuming you made it through the reference checks, you will be notified whether or not the position is yours.

• February 15th​: Ideally, the candidate accepted for this position will join our team by February 15th or sooner. That said, we’ll work with the finalist to ensure a timeline that fits their transition needs.

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“The object of life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, ‘Holy Sh*t, What a Ride!'”—Mavis Leyrer

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The Unreasonable team is made up of passionate souls dedicated to the idea that entrepreneurs are our best bet at solving the greatest challenges of our time. We’re thinkers and doers, writers and makers, engineers and firefighters =) Though we’re headquartered in Boulder, CO we have teammates from London to New York and a community that spans from Sao Paulo to Hong Kong.

We offer all full-time employees at Unreasonable Group comprehensive benefits including health, vision, and dental insurance with company contributions for yourself and your dependents, a Simple IRA retirement plan with 3% company match, unlimited paid vacation with a mandatory minimum aggregate of 2-weeks off per employee per year, 12-weeks paid parental leave, and up to $6000 per year to continue your education and personal and professional growth through our employer sponsored Learning Fund. We want to encourage our teammates to be the best versions of themselves in both work and life and hope our benefits, inspired by our values, reflect this.

To support an international team, we have partnered with Employer of Record services all over the world. All international positions will be employed via our EoR partners. We do our best to ensure that our international teammates receive comparable benefits and enjoy a comparable employee experience as our US based team in accordance and in compliance with local laws and regulations.

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At Unreasonable, our goal is to become a global brand with a diverse team that is representative of the community we serve. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, sexual orientation, political affiliation or any other non-job-related factors. We value diversity and are committed to building a team and an inclusive culture that represents a global perspective of experiences, skills, backgrounds, and expertise. The more inclusive we are, the better we can deliver our mission.