Key Responsibilities

• Sourcing and research: Identify high potential startups and help us understand emerging consumer sectors and trends. 
• Managing deal pipeline: Prioritize our significant deal flow and allocate resources to the most exciting and impactful opportunities. 
• Due diligence: Conduct due diligence and perform analyses on investment opportunities, including administering surveys, parsing data requests, building financial models, talking to customers, and conducting reference checks.
• Networking and community building: Attend industry events and help grow our network of founders/executives by creating new opportunities for the community to come together. 
• Building a professional identity: Eventually establish your own personal brand and contribute to thought leadership in the startup community. We are open to different modalities: podcasts, newsletters, communities, original research, etc. Whatever is authentic to you!

Personal Attributes

• A driven and motivated self-starter with a tireless work ethic.
• An enthusiastic student of consumer behavior.
• Insatiably curious and fiercely intellectual.
• Adept at analyzing data to garner strategic insight.
• An excellent written and oral communicator.
• A charismatic, intuitive relationship builder with a strong network in the startup community.
• Empathetic and humble.
• Collaborative in an unstructured team environment.
• Driven to be part of a winning team; competitive externally, but not internally.

Professional Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of operating or investing experience. Ideally, you have spent those years inside of a fast-growing consumer technology startup, in which you have made meaningful contributions which are recognized by your colleagues. More prior experience may lead to faster demonstration of the abilities that will lead to future promotion.
• Familiarity with startup finance methodologies (e.g. cohort analysis, unit economics, growth funnels) and an understanding of the mechanics of typical consumer business models.
• Graduated from university with a stellar academic track record.
• Non-technical backgrounds are encouraged, as long as you're sufficiently analytical and possess the necessary familiarity with technology.
• An MBA or graduate degree is not required, but may be helpful.

Lightspeed Culture

• We are one, global Lightspeed team.
• We operate like owners to drive extraordinary impact.
• We focus on the merit of ideas and value diverse perspectives.
• We practice empathy and respect each other and ourselves.
• We hold each other accountable.
• We stay humble and work like we have something to prove.