Fund Strategy Associate
West Menlo Park, CA
Junior +1 · Full time
Posted 2 years ago
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Founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to venture to late-stage technology companies, across bio + healthcare, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, games, and companies building toward American dynamism. a16z has $33.3B in assets under management across multiple funds.

We’ve established a team that is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the company-building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. We’ve invested in companies like Affirm, Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, Devoted Health, EQRx, Figma, GitHub, Instacart, OpenSea, Roblox, Stripe, and Substack. Our team is at the forefront of new technology, helping founders and their companies impact and change the world.

The Role

We have an immediate opening for a Fund Strategy Associate. The primary function of this role is to provide the leadership team with real-time investment data and analysis as well as actionable strategic insights across all a16z funds.

To Join Our Team, You Should Be Excited To

  • Create and maintain planning infrastructure and assist in developing the firm’s fund strategies for deployment, reserve planning and pacing
  • Project exit scenarios and outcomes for the firm’s current investments
  • Assist with analysis of follow-on / pro-rata investments
  • Provide analysis of public company investments to determine distribution strategy
  • Create new and innovative ways to track investment performance
  • Provide support in evaluating the launch of potential new funds

Team and Cross-Functional Project and Operations

  • Build and maintain positive relationships with other key partners within the Firm including the investment, legal, capital network and finance teams
  • Coordinate with the operations, engineering and finance teams to build accessible dashboards for the general partners that provides key insights on investment performance and overall fund metrics
  • Support ad-hoc projects related to the Firm’s priorities and initiatives

Minimum Qualifications

  • 2+ years of corporate finance or strategic planning experience. Preferable past experience includes but is not limited to, investment banking in a relevant sector coverage capacity or M&A product role, management consulting, or other strategic planning roles
  • Experience with creating and implementing strategic initiatives from the ground up
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work cross-functionally across the various operational groups within a16z
  • Proven personal and professional achievement
  • Experience in data and analytics and financial modeling
  • Demonstrated ability to multi-task and apply initiative and creativity on projects
  • Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Finance, Business, Economics, or a technical field preferred but not required

a16z culture

  • We do only first class business and only in a first class way
  • We take a long view of relationships, because we are in the relationship business
  • We believe in the future and bet the firm that way
  • We are all different, we recognize that, and we win
  • We celebrate the good times
  • We do it for the team
  • We play to win

At a16z we are always looking to hire the absolute best talent and recognize that diversity in our experiences and backgrounds is what makes us stronger. We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. These differences are what enables us to work towards the future we envision for ourselves, our portfolio companies, and the World.

Andreessen Horowitz hereby reserves the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes received from outside recruiting agencies and / or individual recruiters without being responsible for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes.

A16z
Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.
Size:  101-250 employees
Year Founded:  2009
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