Operations Associate

About Antler

Antler is the investor backing the world’s most driven founders, from day zero to greatness. Founded on the belief that people innovating is the key to building a better future, we partner with people across six continents to launch and scale high-potential startups that address meaningful opportunities and challenges. Knowing that exceptional founders can come from anywhere with any background, we have offices in 26 cities, including Austin, New York, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Bangalore, Jakarta, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, and Sydney. Our global community backs people from the beginning with co-founder matching, deep business model validation, initial capital, expansion support, and follow-on funding. Fueled by a personal passion that goes beyond traditional investing, we have helped create and invested in more than 1,000 startups across a wide range of industries and technologies, with the goal of backing more than 6,000 by 2030.

A better future won’t happen automatically—the world needs talented, determined, and resilient people to build it. Antler team members are part of an ambitious global community dedicated to helping the most driven founders move the world forward. We ease the path to entrepreneurship so more exceptional people can launch and scale companies that disrupt the status quo, create employment, contribute to GDP, and drive technology development and adoption. As the world presents an ever-increasing number of opportunities and challenges, founders are more needed than ever to address them. Join us to support them and help make progress inevitable.

The role

We are looking for an Operations Associate to join our team in Spain. The role is pivotal for our success, both in the region and globally, as finding high quality founders is one of the most important elements in our business as a venture builder.

We are looking for a person with a very high level of business acumen to identify and attract the right talents to our startup generation program. You will be speaking with the applicants on why they want to be founders, listening to and understanding the problems they want to solve. 

If you’re up for the challenge, we can promise an incredible experience and an unparalleled opportunity to work with extremely motivated individuals, accomplished entrepreneurs and the founders of future startup successes.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for sourcing and interviewing founders to be part of our cohorts, from which 10-20 great companies will be born on a yearly basis.
• Assist in defining founders we are looking for, where they are located and how we reach them with our value proposition.
• Responsible for Marketing & PR to execute a targeted talent marketing strategy and offer the best founder experience.
• Provide support to all founders to ensure a flawless onboarding process and act as coach/advisor during the program,
• Be a powerful brand ambassador for Antler.

Requirements

• Experience working in high growth technology companies or a demonstrated passion for the startup ecosystem and founders
• 2-4 years of experience

Personal skills

• Independent and proactive with a very positive attitude.
• Results-oriented and outstanding personal commitment.
• A personality that founders want to work with.
• Comfortable with quick changes, tight deadlines, moving targets, and ambiguity.
• Highly collaborative approach and influencing skills.
• Excellent communications skills.

What we offer

• A strong company culture with constant feedback and hands-on coaching from world-class ex-entrepreneurs, ex-strategy consultants and ex-investment bankers
• Clear ownership from day one
• Incredible growth and networking in the world of Venture Capital
• International environment which treats everyone with respect, promotes diversity and gives you room to grow
• Regular team events, including dinner and other activities