Position:
Platform Manager, Investments
Location:
Seattle, WA; Washington, D.C.; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA
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Application Deadline:
Friday, October 3, 2025
About the Role
The Platform Manager, Investments provides comprehensive support and resources for our portfolio of funds and company investments in order to help them scale their work. This person loves working with startups and investors, building community, and building processes and tools to leverage a small team. This is a first-time role on the investment team and an opportunity to build a platform from the ground up for highly impactful companies and funds. This is not an investor role: You will not make investment decisions, conduct due diligence, or deploy capital.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage relationships across a growing portfolio of funds
- Attend portfolio update calls and annual meetings as needed, synthesizing insights for internal stakeholders.
- Track and document portfolio needs, support opportunities, and engagement touchpoints.
- Serve as a liaison across internal teams (communications, legal, strategy) to activate portfolio support
- Develop and implement onboarding workflows for new investments.
- Develop cadence and structure for ongoing portfolio communications.
- Build and maintain lightweight systems (e.g., Affinity CRM) to track engagement, performance, and support needs. Interest/experience integrating AI in the workflows and processes
- Systematize portfolio management processes that are currently ad hoc.
- Work with manager to design and track the portfolio support budget
- Design and implement small-scale events, office hours and networking opportunities to foster collaboration across the portfolio.
- Develop a strategy for community engagement that is scalable and low-burden for the team.
- Partner with external advisors and service providers to align support offerings with portfolio needs.
Qualifications
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5-7 years demonstrated ability in venture capital, startups, or related fields (e.g. private sector, finance, investments), with a focus on portfolio support and relationship management.
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Strong knowledge and understanding of the startup ecosystem and challenges faced by early-stage companies and emerging funds.
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Consistent track record leading sophisticated projects and multiple partners (internally and externally) with clear communication and follow-through.
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Experience designing and maintaining systems to manage data, and ability to translate data into insights.
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Meticulous attention to detail, with bias for accuracy and follow-through across systems, communication, and events.
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Skilled in creating presentation slides and reports for internal and external audiences.
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Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment.
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Willingness to travel for events and retreats.
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Prior experience at a VC firm, startup accelerator, or in a platform/portfolio support role
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Background in private sector or founder-facing roles (vs. social impact or nonprofit)
