[Unlisted Post] We’re Hiring: Obvious Chief of Staff

Obvious Ventures is on a mission to partner with entrepreneurs building disruptive solutions to systemic challenges. We have teamed up with Twitter co-founder Ev Williams and other forward-thinking partners and LPs to build a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on addressing the fundamental building blocks of society and life: healthcare, food, education, finance, work, mobility, construction, manufacturing and supply chain, energy, and more.

We are looking to grow the Obvious Ventures family with a Chief of Staff who will work directly with me (Co-founder and Managing Director) based in our San Francisco Presidio office. While we are all currently working remotely, we anticipate that vaccinated employees will return to the office soon.

We hope to find an administrative professional with a unique combination of curiosity and attention to detail. Our ideal candidate knows how to bring order to chaos and effortlessly juggle projects while representing the firm and our values. This position is a combination of executive assistant priorities and project management tracking of a broad range of investment opportunities.

Your Responsibilities

• Email triage: Process and analyze all incoming communications with precision. Sort and categorize the myriad types of email and respond on behalf of the Managing Director where appropriate.
• Scheduling & communication: Provide accurate, responsive, and respectful communications with entrepreneurs and take the lead on scheduling deal evaluation calls and in-person meetings.
• Connecting the dots: Using a mix of curiosity, research and good judgement, connect the right investment opportunities with the right experts across the Obvious team.
• Deal tracking: Record new investment opportunities in our deal tracking system and continue to follow and update the status of those deals throughout our due diligence life cycle.
• Network development: Update and maintain contact databases and LinkedIn connections on behalf of the Managing Director.

Who You Are

We are looking for someone that adds to our optimistic, forward-looking team culture. The position does require strong organization and communications skills, including:

• Detail Oriented. Do you proof read your tweets for grammar and spelling errors before sending? Repeatedly reorganize your home filing and kitchen drawer systems for efficiency? That’s the kind of attention to detail we’re looking for.
• Completion Junkie. Does your brain focus on the goal and stay focused until you get there? Do you prefer finishing to starting? That’s the inbox-zero mentality we’re seeking.
• Curious About Everything. Emerging technologies, software, hardware, plant-based food — you name it. You enjoy learning about it all.
• Great Communicator. If you had more time, would you write a shorter letter? Pride yourself in that second revision of a team email that’s clearer and more concise? Bingo.
• (Just Enough) Experience. Ideally you’re already experienced in this type of role. That said, we’d love to hear from candidates with at least two years of work experience after undergrad in a position that required core organization, project management, and written communications skills.
• Table Stakes: You live and work by high ethical standards, keep confidential information confidential, and posses an ability to tolerate many, many puns.

Application

Interested? You can apply for the position and upload a resume on our career page. If you’re curious and think you might not be right, well — you might actually be perfect for the role. Click here to apply.

We’re here and excited to hear from you.

Obvious Ventures is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals, where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants regardless of factors including race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, and military and veteran status. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.