We have a rare opening on our core team for the Head of Platform role.
We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. This is an opportunity for us to bring in a different perspective and we’re eager to further diversify our company.
Emerge is a community-powered seed fund, home to practical guidance for founders building the future of learning and work. At Emerge, our purpose is to democratise access to opportunity. That’s why we invest in ****companies that use innovation and technology to bridge the divide between the people who need access to opportunities to acquire skills — and industry that needs access to skilled workers.
This is an extremely exciting time to join the team. Emerge Fund I is two thirds of the way through its investment period and you will be an integral part of the firm's path to Fund II and beyond. Our investment focus - now and in the future - is on first checks, where we know a market specialist fund like us can make the biggest difference on a company's journey.
Emerge invested at pre-seed in game-changing companies like Engageli (raised a $33m Series A in May 2021), Yoto (raised a $17m Series A in May 2021) and Unibuddy (raised a $20m Series B in July 2021). As Europe's most active edtech investor, Emerge has a portfolio of 65 companies that have collectively raised over $325m and achieved a combined market cap of over $1bn.
As Head of Platform, you will work directly with Jan and be responsible for driving key community-facing projects from concept to completion in an environment of autonomy and creativity.
Your mission ****is to build the best product to get edtech and future of work founders from first check to Series A. As a fund, we work with our community to provide our portfolio with unfair access to strategic insight, industry connections and advice from legendary edtech operators. You will grow and productise that community in the service of our portfolio.
We are a small team (two Partners, one Principal, one Senior Associate and the incoming Head of Platform), working in four-week sprints over a quarterly planning cycle that creates extreme focus.
Here are some of the community-facing projects that we’ve worked on recently, to give you an idea of what the day to day might look like:
This is just the start. You will own the creation and execution of our platform strategy and be taking our community to new heights. You will be successful in your role if 90% of our portfolio would be very disappointed if they could no longer have access to the community you manage.
Emerge is a remote-first company, and this is a remote job. We're hiring from anywhere in a +/- 3 hour radius of UK time.
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