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What you’ll be doing…
Verizon Ventures seeks an individual reporting to the Managing Director, GM Europe and Israel, at Verizon VenturesInvestment Theses Development:
- Research emerging technology trends and develop investment theses
- Subscribe to relevant research and attend relevant industry centric events and maintain research repository for the European and Israeli team.
Sourcing and Pipeline management:
- Proactively network and attend industry events and scouting meetings
- Build network and trust with top tier co-investors
- Source, pre- screen and review new technology startups in investment theses areas; qualify deal opportunities.
Deal Execution:
- Manage the due-diligence process in areas such as Technology review, financial analysis and modeling, competitive landscape, market size, business/pricing model, legal review and more.
- Prepare forecasts and valuation models with appropriate operational and financial benchmarking analysis.
- Assist in preparations of all necessary documents for the Investment Committee.
Portfolio Management:
- Assist Investment team in board-level management of portfolio companies.
- Track and report key metrics associated with all aspects of the investment pipeline, portfolio partnership efforts, and innovation exploration.
- Continuously drive venture development activities between portfolio companies and internal stakeholders within Verizon and partners of Verizon to ensure value creation as a strategic investor.
- Oversee external research and internal portfolio and pipeline analysis tools for the Ventures team, comparing alternatives available and negotiating contracts.
Internal deal CTO
- Conduct in-depth technology due diligence on all potential deals.
- Work with all global internal tech teams to help source innovation from Europe and Israel for Verizon
What we’re looking for…
You’ll need to have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experiece.
- Work experience within one or more of thefollowing areas:
- Tech investments experinece ata Venture Capital firm or aCorporate Venture Capital team.
- Global Management Consulting within a global Investment Bank or Consultancy film.
Even better if you have:
- Experience working for a Multinationalcompany
- MBA degree and/or engineeringexperienecewithin a technologycompany
- Demonstrated excellent presentation and communication skills in English and the proven ability to communicate ideas effectively, at all levels of management, throughout the organization.
- Interest in new emerging technologies
- Passion for venture investing
- Demonstrated strong collaboration skills and proven ability to motivate peers and supervisors to action.
- Attention to detail and a collaborative approach to sharing insights.
- CFA is a plus
If interested, please apply here.
