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YourNest Venture Capital
Job Description
Do you have what it takes to build India's most-envied VC firm?
Startups aspire to change the way we live and work. They are here to create economic value. Empowering their founders with empathy and assertiveness is an art. We are seeking such partners as part of YourNest's journey to nurture success for DeepTech startups.
At YourNest, we've been scouting for diamonds in the rough since 2011: with three flagship funds and a continuum fund totalling $160 million, being the first to focus on DeepTech startups, delivering more than 10 exits in the last 5 years, and ensuring we remain among India's best-performing early-stage funds, we've made it a habit to set new benchmarks in the country's venture capital sector. And we've done this thanks to an enterprising team of committed young people who work closely with our founders to help them succeed.
YourNest is all set to launch its flagship Fund IV of INR 1500 crores and is seeking to strengthen its Founder's Office. Now we're hiring a "Founder's Office" to join us in this mission.
How does this role contribute?
As part of the Founder's Office, you will be the execution engine behind the Founders/General Partners/CEO, powering a fast-paced venture capital firm with analytics, data, and disciplined follow-through — not a cold hand-off, but a partner who carries context across meetings, projects, and decisions. This is a broad-based, operationally intensive role spanning project coordination, programme management, and research, designed to free up leadership bandwidth so decisions move faster and nothing slips through the cracks. The Impact is at Firm level, and the role offers a launchpad into any functional area of the firm.
You own — directly and accountably
Learning & Exposure
At YourNest, we don't measure success by degrees or accolades alone. If you believe in the transformative power of startups to reshape India's narrative and understand that venture capital isn't just a means but a catalyst for entrepreneurial success, we would love to interact with you.
Startups aspire to change the way we live and work. They are here to create economic value. Empowering their founders with empathy and assertiveness is an art. We are seeking such partners as part of YourNest's journey to nurture success for DeepTech startups.
At YourNest, we've been scouting for diamonds in the rough since 2011: with three flagship funds and a continuum fund totalling $160 million, being the first to focus on DeepTech startups, delivering more than 10 exits in the last 5 years, and ensuring we remain among India's best-performing early-stage funds, we've made it a habit to set new benchmarks in the country's venture capital sector. And we've done this thanks to an enterprising team of committed young people who work closely with our founders to help them succeed.
YourNest is all set to launch its flagship Fund IV of INR 1500 crores and is seeking to strengthen its Founder's Office. Now we're hiring a "Founder's Office" to join us in this mission.
How does this role contribute?
As part of the Founder's Office, you will be the execution engine behind the Founders/General Partners/CEO, powering a fast-paced venture capital firm with analytics, data, and disciplined follow-through — not a cold hand-off, but a partner who carries context across meetings, projects, and decisions. This is a broad-based, operationally intensive role spanning project coordination, programme management, and research, designed to free up leadership bandwidth so decisions move faster and nothing slips through the cracks. The Impact is at Firm level, and the role offers a launchpad into any functional area of the firm.
You own — directly and accountably
Learning & Exposure
- GP Shadowing: Shadow the GP in select internal and external meetings to understand context, capture notes, and see first-hand how decisions get made in a VC fund.
- Ecosystem Fluency: Build working knowledge of the VC and startup ecosystem, fund operations, and the investment process through day-to-day exposure and guided research.
- Board & Advisory Support: Support in driving the best outcomes from the advisory board, mentors, Board members, and shareholders.
- Shareholder Value: Drive shareholder value in the Asset Management Company by developing a clear strategic path and following it through, supporting shareholder-level decision points.
- GP Positioning: Prepare and support positioning of GPs within the startup/VC/DeepTech ecosystem, including speech content, case studies, and narrative.
- Operating Rhythms: Support the GP in running recurring internal rhythms and review cadences.
- Project Governance: Create and maintain project plans with timelines, owners, and milestones; follow up regularly to keep projects on track and escalate risks early.
- Delivery Ownership: Step up to ensure project timelines don't slip when functional teams are preoccupied with urgent work; hand-hold key initiatives such as institutionalising processes and driving automation.
- Cross-team Coordination: Coordinate with internal team members to ensure documents, data, and inputs are received on time for reviews and decisions, and are actioned upon.
- Special Projects: Champion special projects and new initiatives for value creation across the firm.
- Market Research: Conduct targeted research on the asset management space and market themes relevant to the firm's focus areas.
- Decision Support: Prepare concise research briefs and in-depth, fact-based analysis; present metrics for decision-making and share analysis and updates ahead of important meetings.
- Storytelling Enablement: Enable GPs to document their experiences as stories to be told at the right moment, adding value to the Founders community.
- Digital Record-Keeping: Ensure the organisation follows established practices for digital records — decks, documents, notes, and shared drives — for easy retrieval, and align data to ease the implementation of AI in operations and decision-making.
- High-quality Collateral: Support preparation of high-quality documents and presentations for internal reviews, investor updates, and ecosystem engagements.
- Delivery Discipline: 100% of key projects and milestones delivered on time; reduction in slipped timelines across functional teams.
- Stakeholder Outcomes: Quality and consistency of advisory board, mentor, Board, and shareholder engagements enabled; positioning content (speeches, case studies, narrative) delivered ahead of key ecosystem moments.
- Research Impact: Volume and quality of research briefs and analyses delivered ahead of major decisions/meetings, and their adoption in GP decision-making.
- Operational Excellence: Compliance of digital record-keeping (decks, documents, notes, shared drives) and progress on making firm data AI-ready.
- GP Enablement: Turnaround time on GP requests and follow-ups; quality and reuse of narrative, speech, and case-study content across ecosystem engagements.
At YourNest, we don't measure success by degrees or accolades alone. If you believe in the transformative power of startups to reshape India's narrative and understand that venture capital isn't just a means but a catalyst for entrepreneurial success, we would love to interact with you.
- Education: A bachelor's degree is mandatory; an MBA in Finance is a strong plus for this role.
- Experience: 1–3 years of relevant experience in a Founder's Office, Executive Assistant, Chief of Staff, or a similar high-exposure role, working closely with senior leadership on execution, coordination, and decision support.
- Mindset: Self-driven, hungry to learn, a patient listener, assertive, analytical, a systems thinker, a team player, a thought leader, and a doer who believes the job isn't over until it's done.
- Growth Path: This role offers a career path into functional areas such as portfolio governance, investor relations, and portfolio growth, while keeping you at the leading edge of the fast-moving venture capital sector.
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