Senior Associate Venture and Growth
Digital private-markets investment platform and investment manager providing eligible investors and family offices access to curated private-equity and alternative-investment opportunities.
About Moonfare
Moonfare sources, vets, curates, and digitally distributes institutional-quality private-market investments, including direct funds, portfolios of funds, co-investments, open-ended funds, secondaries, and direct deals. It serves eligible individual investors, family offices, and institutional partners through a digital investment platform.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will manage the direct deal pipeline from opportunity receipt through close. You will screen co-investments and secondaries, conduct investment diligence, prepare investment committee memos, build relationships with venture intermediaries and GPs, improve investment processes and tooling, and package qualified opportunities into investor-ready materials.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of venture and growth investing experience or directly relevant adjacent deal experience
- Hands-on experience screening opportunities, conducting diligence, and taking investment views to decisions
- An existing network of venture GPs, intermediaries, LPs, or co-investors
- Investment judgment across companies, founding teams, markets, and investment theses
- Financial modelling and market analysis skills
- Knowledge of cap tables, preference stacks, waterfalls, secondary pricing, VC term sheets, and SPV mechanics
- AI fluency for designing processes
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Eligibility to live and work in Berlin or London
Responsibilities
- Own the direct deal pipeline through close
- Screen inbound co-investments and secondaries
- Conduct diligence on direct deals and contribute to primary fund diligence
- Prepare investment memos for the investment committee
- Build relationships with intermediaries, general partners, and founders
- Monitor competitor positioning and secondary pricing
- Refine direct-deal diligence and sourcing processes
- Develop AI-enabled sourcing, screening, and monitoring tools
- Prepare investor-ready materials for qualified opportunities
Benefits
- Individual growth budget of €1,500 or 2% of base salary, whichever is higher
- Company pension scheme with a 20% employer contribution
- 25 vacation days, increasing by one day per year up to 30 days
- Two additional days during the annual end-of-year company shutdown
- Free lunch on days worked in the Berlin office
- Monthly subsidy for the Deutschland job ticket
- Subsidised Urban Sports Club membership
- Performance-related base salary increases and/or bonuses