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Director, Investments & Partnerships
San Francisco
Job Description
How do great ideas travel around the world - and in a market built for the world?
This is what we wrestle with each day at Times Bridge as we drive growth across India for our investment portfolio.
Join our exceptional team.
We’re venture investors, technology executives and proven global operators eager to reveal the breadth and depth of the India opportunity on the world stage.
Join us and help architect a wide, growing, global portfolio of inspired companies - all of whom see India and its diversity as central to their worldwide mission!
Roles and responsibilities
We’re venture investors, technology executives and proven global operators eager to reveal the breadth and depth of the India opportunity on the world stage.
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Investment & Partnerships Associate
Mumbai
Job Description
About the job
About Times Bridge: Times Bridge is the global investment and partnership arm of the Times Group. Its mission is to bring the world’s best ideas to India and share India’s best insights with the world. Its current portfolio includes Airbnb, Coursera, Headspace, Houzz, MUBI, Smule, Stack Overflow, Uber and Wattpad among others. By providing unmatched market leadership to select partners, Times Bridge accelerates growth and immersion across the Indian subcontinent for leaders and companies who believe in winning in and learning from India. For more information, visit https://timesbridge.com/ and follow @timesbridge on Twitter. Role Overview: As an Investment & Partnerships Associate, you will have meaningful exposure to all aspects of global investments & partnerships on a small team. The role requires a strong sense of self-motivation, communication and quantitative skills. You will play a pivotal role in the development of new opportunities and in ongoing partnership closure efforts and have the opportunity to regularly interact with senior management teams at global companies. You’ll also manage projects that continually improve the way we work with founders and VCs around the world. In this role you’ll…- Learn from entrepreneurial colleagues that have been leading innovation in technology and media for 25+ years
- Play a critical role within an established company, leveraging Times Bridge’s position as a leading investments/partnerships firm to evaluate new opportunities and add value to existing portfolio companies
- Solidify core partnership skills with countless opportunities to grow responsibilities
- Perform market research to identify emerging trends and technologies in India and around the world and feed them into screening and identifying high-potential investment opportunities
- Populate, track and manage the deal pipeline of companies Times Bridge can invest in and partner with
- End-to-end ownership of creating pitch documents including our investment thesis and customized go-to-market plans for potential partners
- Track Times Bridge’s portfolio, past and current business status and other fund reporting aspects to support shareholders and the internal management with strategic decision-making and an overview of the business
- Prepare and present investment memos for the board of directors
- Directly engage and connect with global CXOs, Times Group leadership and other VCs as and when required
- Contribute to deal closure formalities including legal & compliance, agreement drafts and other administrative support
- MBA/equivalent post-graduate degree from a top-tier B-school
- 2-4 years of post-MBA work experience in a VC/PE/strategy roles/startup-experience or other sales/partnership experience
- Someone who brings a balanced mix of creativity and analytical thinking to the table
- Excellent communications (especially writing and presenting) skills in English are a necessary requirement
- Ability to understand context and tailor communications to objectives and audience
- A self-starter who is passionate about the venture capital ecosystem, emerging technologies, markets and companies, new and innovative business models
- Strong attention to detail
- A strong sense of urgency and self-motivation to work autonomously
- Limitless curiosity about business models and understanding of how companies make money
