Job Description

About Entrepreneur First 

Entrepreneur First is the best place in the world to find your co-founder and build a startup from scratch. Every six months, we bring together and fund high-potential individuals to help them meet their co-founder, develop an idea and raise money from leading investors - as fast as possible. We call this Talent Investing.  See how it works here.

The companies built at EF are now worth over $10bn. They include Tractable (a computer vision unicorn), Cleo, Omnipresent, Aztec, Airbank, Hier Foods and many more. The portfolio is fast growing, with its companies having increased in value by more than 70% in the past year.

EF is funded and backed by some of the world's best tech founders and company builders, including Patrick and John Collison (Stripe); Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Tom Blomfield (GoCardless and Monzo), Sara Clemens (Pandora and Twitch); Nat Friedman (GitHub); and Matt Mullenweg (Wordpress). 

Having raised our Series C round of investment at the end of last year, we are well-capitalized out to 2026, and have ambitious plans to further scale our impact over the coming years.

The Role  

We’re looking for a Platform Manager to develop and manage a team of 3-4 that operates our program, talent selection and company building processes that builds the local platform of Entrepreneur First. Your responsibility will be end to end ownership on all standardised processes from first touchpoint with a candidate up until the coordination and organisation of our “Reveal” when we release our companies into the market and will work closely with local and global stakeholders to improve, identify and scale best practices.

The role is the heart piece of building a scalable and repeatable process to venture building at Entrepreneur First and is exposed to a large volume of external and internal stakeholders, like Talent Investment Teams, Product Operations and Insights and Legal teams

You will report directly to the local Partner and Talent Director and start as soon as possible.

What You'll Do

- Setup, execute and improve processes and playbooks from top of funnel (Selection and Admission Operations) over Investment Committee - Coordination to Incorporation and 'Reveal Events', where we showcase our ventures to the global investor community.

- Work closely with internal stakeholders to improve processes in attractiveness, effectiveness and efficiency. 

- Deliver cross functional end to end management and continuous improvement of processes around Talent, Programme and Fundraising and local marketing execution.

- Lift the local Entrepreneur First Platform to a first-class venture building arena in terms of customer experience and effectiveness.

- Ensure operational excellence and a bespoke customer experience at any step of our founders journey.

- Manage a team of 2-4 Associates and Analysts

What You'll need

- Min. 6 years work experience in mid-volume operational environments such as Sales (Operations), Mass Recruiting, Program Management, Venture Building etc

- Strong skills in verbal and written communication

- End to end ownership on project management and experience in leading cross-functional teams

- An analytical mindset and willingness to apply to day-to-day operations

- A team player mentality - you are motivated by shared goals 

- A love of learning and adapting to changing needs or circumstances

- A customer-centric approach that shapes your thinking and drives your determination to achieve great results.

- A result oriented approach and ability to to translate ideas into quantifiable hypotheses & strategies and impact.

EF champions diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment in which a wide variety of backgrounds thrive. We do not tolerate discrimination of any nature, including but not limited to: discriminating on the basis of race, colour, religion, culture, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, disability, or marital status.