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About the Role

Blackbird is looking to hire an Investor Relations Analyst to supercharge engagement with our investors, building their trust and confidence in Blackbird as stewards of their capital. You will be a key part of delivering a world-class experience for investors through your attention to detail and delivering delightful interactions.

Here is what success might include in your first 12 months:

• Data & reporting. This is the foundation of investor relations. You will ensure our key investor materials are insightful, engaging and timely. This includes investment memos, quarterly reporting, pitchdecks, due diligence documents and ad-hoc requests.

• Build scalable workflows. Create scalable systems and repeatable workflows to support our investors through a full lifecycle and over multiple fund vintages. Beginning with a prospective investor’s first interaction with Blackbird, supporting their due diligence, onboarding them as investors and then managing their relationship over many years.

• Improve the investor experience. End-to-end mapping of our investors’ experience and bring your design thinking to level-up their customer journey.

• Collaborate internally. Work closely with Blackbird’s operations, investments and founder success teams to ensure timely & accurate information flows & minimise unnecessary tasks.

• Tracking Blackbird’s success. Establish and manage ongoing benchmarking of Blackbird’s investment performance to peers, monitoring the quality of our LP relationships, tracking our progress to fundraising objectives and other IR projects.

You’ll be reporting to the Head of Investor Relations and have access to experts within Blackbird but with scope to take ownership of key documents and processes.

Position Requirements

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

• Attention to detail. Trust is earned in drops and can be lost in buckets. You should demonstrate a forensic approach to creating investor materials and experiences.

• Customer experience. Deep wells of empathy for our investors. An ability to assess a customer journey, identify and solve pain points.

• Hospitality mindset. We infuse investor relations with ‘Enlightened Hospitality’, which means we all muck in together and have a collective obsession for customer service to our founders and investors. You should too.

• Project management. Every day brings fresh challenges (a.k.a distractions)! You will need an ability to achieve outcomes whilst managing numerous, competing requests across a breadth of areas and a range of investors.

• Exceptional communication skills. An ability to convert complexity into beautiful, insightful content.

• Problem solving and continuous improvement. We’re looking for someone who is excited by continuous improvement. This may include processes, investor materials, experiences.

You should have a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent - we will consider a wide variety of specialisations. Prior experience in investment management is not critical but you should demonstrate a curiosity about venture capital and our investors.

This role is full-time, based in Surry Hills (Sydney, NSW) or Cremorne (Melbourne, VIC) with the flexibility to work from home.

Working at Blackbird

We believe that building a diverse and inclusive team is critical to Blackbird’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:

• Flexible working: Whether it’s working from home or leaving early to pick up the kids from daycare or school.

• Generous parental leave: We know family comes first, and we are proud to offer 20 weeks of parental leave for all parents (an additional 4 weeks for the birth parent), with no minimum tenure. In addition, we offer IVF, adoption and surrogacy leave. We also continue to pay superannuation and vest carried interest for up to 12 months of parental leave, and offer a supportive return-to-work policy to help with the ramp back.

• Learning & Development Budget: Our team is hungry to continuously learn and you’ll receive a budget to spend on books, conferences, training, coaching and courses relating to your profession.

• Wellbeing: We think in decades not days. To support our Blackbirds over the long haul we offer a range of holistic wellbeing benefits including a monthly healthy living allowance, 24/7 access to wellbeing support, a home office allowance, personal kit-kat days, and more!

• Unplugged weekends: We work hard without letting work get in the way of life. We’ve implemented no Slack or emails on weekends, so you can switch off and enjoy yourself.

• Connection: While being big fans of a fully distributed workforce, we value our vibe and time to connect online and IRL through team and company offsites, monthly social activities, weekly lunches and our many social clubs (#fun-manis, #fun-fantasybookclub, #bb-craft just to name a few!).

• A share of Blackbird’s success: We think it is important to share successes with the whole team. All Blackbird employees receive carry in funds raised and ownership in management companies formed while they are at the firm.

Blackbird is a Pledge 1% member —  we pledge 1% of our time, equity and profits to help not-for-profit causes in our community. Through Pledge 1%, we established the Blackbird Foundation to supercharge the creative capabilities of young people.

We are also very proud to have won the 2023 AFR Best Place to Work award in three categories including Overall winner. In 2022, we became certified as one of Australia’s Great Places to Work.

About Blackbird

Blackbird is Australia's biggest venture capital fund whose mission is to supercharge Australia and New Zealand’s most ambitious founders. We do this by raising venture capital funds, investing in the most promising founders and helping them succeed. We have a portfolio valued at over $7B, including some of the most successful Australian and Kiwi startups such as Canva, SafetyCulture, Halter, VeVe and Culture Amp.

We are inspired by investment firms such as Berkshire Hathaway and Bridgewater Associates. Like the companies we back, we want to build a business that lasts for decades and produces excellent returns for our investors. Most of all, we want to support our region’s most talented founders to build category-defining technology companies.

We’ve written a lot about what we love at Blackbird, so check out our blog if you want some more information about us. In particular, you should read about our mission and values, our Blackbird’s Operating Principles (BOPs) and what we look for in founders.