About the Role

Reporting to Head of Operations and Finance - Ben Vickers

Startmate is looking to hire a Fund Operations Associate to help us massively scale our investments into Australia and New Zealand’s best startups . 

We want to make Australia and New Zealand the best place in the world to build a startup. You will help us massively expand our investments into the best startups and founders. Currently we have the largest portfolio (170+ companies) in the industry and every year we invest in more startups than most funds do in a decade. Plus (spoiler alert) we are launching some exciting new funds that will change the startup landscape across Australia and New Zealand.

Here is a brief overview of some examples of work you will commandeer (don’t worry if you have never done any of this before, we can teach you everything you need to know): 

• Experience management - ensuring every interaction with every startup founder and investor is a great experience.

• Portfolio investments - coordinating the investment process into all our new portfolio companies, as well as coordinating further investments into the existing portfolio.

• Fundraising - coordinating the raising of new funds, and the onboarding of all our investors.

• Fund support - responding to queries and requests from investors.

• Reporting -  assist with the fund valuation process and reporting to our investors.

• Operational process - building and improving our operational processes, so that we can massively grow the portfolio.

• Legal - working closely with our legal advisors to ensure that every transaction is legally sound.

• Compliance - working closely with the wider team ensure that we are compliant with policies and regulations.

Position Requirements

Your background is less important than the key skills, which might include:

• Familiarity with the legal workings of start-up transaction docs, and fundraising to invest in startups;

• Some interest or experience dealing with startups (this could be in your current role, past roles, being involved in accelerator programs or other startup communities);

• Exposure to accounting, finance, and/or valuations.

• An understanding of and ability to navigate the regulatory frameworks within which Startmate operates;

• Advanced communication skills both internally and externally and maintaining a hospitality mindset in dealing with all stakeholders;

• Fantastic at creating and energising by improving, monitoring and implementing internal processes.

We’re looking for someone who is as passionate as us about making Australia and New Zealand the best places in the world to start a company. You must have a high ownership mentality and the ability to take responsibility for goals and outcomes.

This role is fully remote anywhere in Australia or New Zealand. We currently have an office in Melbourne with satellite offices in Sydney and Auckland.

Working at Startmate

We believe that building a diverse and inclusive team is critical to Startmate’s success. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We use Applied to ensure every applicant gets an equal chance of success.

We offer:

• Community: The Startmate community is a unique mix of founders, operators and investors — the one thing everyone has in common is ambition. Startmate is much more than just our team, it’s a community built on paying it forward.

• Autonomy: You will have very high autonomy to realise your dreams within your area

• Flexibility: We are a remote-first team with coverage across Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Noosa and New Zealand. We currently have an office in Melbourne with satellite offices in Sydney and Auckland.

• Access: You get to work with every well known and less well-known Australian and Kiwi startup, VC and angel — Canva, Safety Culture, Propeller, Vend, Xero, Blackbird, Square Peg, AirTree, rampersand, Folklore — you name it!

• Great vibes: Being able to bring your best self to work is really important to us. We index heavily on wellbeing and engagement to make sure that you’re able to turn up with energy and resilience each day.

• A share of Startmate’s success: We think it is important to share successes with the whole team. All Startmate employees receive carry in our funds and are owners in the management company.

About Startmate

We’re making Australia and New Zealand the best place in the world to build a startup. We’re achieving that through building a platform that unleashes startup ambition and accelerates exceptional companies.

At our core, we’re a community of the most ambitious founders, operators and investors propelled by a highly-trusted mentor-driven community, and backed by the best angels, venture funds and tech startups in the region.

Over the past decade we have invested in 170+ startups, with a combined value of $2 billion.

We’ve written a lot about what we love at Startmate, so check out our blog if you want some more information about us, and check out our mission, values, and team, and one of our most ambitious goals...