INVESTMENT ASSOCIATE

London, United Kingdom                                  

About us

InMotion Ventures is the venture capital arm of Jaguar Land Rover. We are a global early-stage investor, with a focus on pre-Seed to Series A across our core investment themes: Climate Tech, Industrial Tech, and Enterprise Software.

About the Role

• We are looking for a highly driven and proactive individual to join our team as an Associate. Reporting to a Principal, you will work within our London-based investment team, sourcing and analysing new investment opportunities, supporting deal execution and reporting on portfolio performance. You will be encouraged to start building your own pattern recognition and professional network in the day-to-day role.

Requirements

Your Responsibilities

● Sourcing New Investment Opportunities – Build a data driven approach to help assess and prioritise startup investment opportunities that are relevant to our mandate. You will be encouraged to expand your own network and build strong relationships with the most ambitious entrepreneurs, relevant investors and stakeholders.

● Deal Execution – Support senior members of the investment team in the appraisal of new investment opportunities. You will be expected to perform a thorough analysis of business plans, markets, technology trends, as well as leading reference calls with experts across sectors. You will write investment memos and assist with due diligence and execution of Seed to Series B deals.

● Market Intelligence – Develop a deep understanding of appropriate investment verticals. Identify significant new market trends and potential opportunities for investments, providing in depth research and analysis to the InMotion Investment Team, with a view to informing investment decisions. You will help lead sector deep dives, build competitive landscapes, and learn how to size the short to long-term addressable market.

● Portfolio performance analysis – Actively support our existing portfolio companies alongside the Platform & Community team. You will work with our portfolio companies to collect up-to-date metrics on company performance and analyse quarterly financial information. From time to time there may be opportunities to provide more hands-on support to portfolio company founders.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 2-4 years of work experience in investment (VC / PE) or product/operations/engineering at tech start-ups
• An established and growing network in the UK and European start-up and investment community
• Strong analytical ability with experience in building financial models, evaluating complex new business models, and delivering to tight deadlines
• Self-starter mentality with a strong work ethic, commercial acumen and communication skills
• Excellent academic track record (PhDs also welcome)
• Must be eligible for work in the UK
• Technical background (software development, AI) would be viewed favorably   

Benefits

What’s on Offer

• Competitive compensation package
• An incredibly fast-paced, high growth environment where you will be contributing at all levels from day one
• Opportunity for international travel, representing InMotion at industry events, and working with our startups around the world
• Unparalleled exposure to a high volume of quality deal flow and all stages of the investment process
• A minimum of 2 days a week in our new London office (Shoreditch) but otherwise Hybrid working
• Work alongside inspirational founders, mentors and experienced investors
• Access to a great network, across Europe and the US
• Annual allowance for professional training and development

InMotion Ventures believes in equal opportunities for everyone and encourages diversity and inclusion. We want to encourage applicants with diverse backgrounds to apply for this role. We process all applications without regard to gender, nationality, race, colour, religion, age, disability status, sexual orientation or marital status, and are happy to make reasonable adjustments to support your needs

By applying to this position, you agree to allow InMotion Ventures Ltd (Abbey Road, Coventry, CV3 4LF, inmotion@jaguarlandrover.com) to collect, store and process your resume, contact details and any other personal data that you submit. If InMotion is providing recruitment services to a third-party, you also extend this permission to our end client.

We will process this data for recruitment purposes only. The data will be stored in our Applicant Tracking System, (which stores data in the U.S and is fully compliant with EU data protection laws), and we will not share it with anyone else.

We would like to keep this data until our open role is filled and may choose to keep it in our database for future roles for up to 12 months.

Here’s a link to our privacy policy. In this policy, you will find information about our compliance with GDPR (data protection law.) You can find how to send us a request to let you access your data that we have collected, request us to delete your data, correct any inaccuracies or restrict our processing of your data. You also have the right to lodge a complaint about the way we handle your data. If you have not heard back from us within 3 weeks, please assume your application has been unsuccessful.