[Hiring] Investment Banking Associate @Pairs

Role Description

We are hiring an Investment Banking Associate to bring investors into the opportunities on Pairs, and to run each investor process with a banker's discipline.

This role sits on the investor side of Pairs. You know how a process runs: the investor list, the first approach, the follow-up, the meeting and the next step. Here you run that process for the companies that clear our diligence.

• You bring the investor relationships you built on deals, and you open new ones every month: family offices, high-net-worth individuals, angels and funds that invest directly in companies.
• We are not raising a fund. Our investors invest directly in companies, so a network made up mainly of fund LPs or institutional mandates is not the right fit for this role.
• Our model is introductions and relationship management, not deal execution.
• Our platform handles the pipeline, research and follow-up. Your time goes to investor conversations, and to judging which investors will actually commit capital.
• You will work directly with the two co-founders and our investor team. The organisation is flat, so you will see first-hand how we screen opportunities, what we decline and why.
• We are looking for someone who has sat on the outreach side of a deal and wants to own the relationships, not only the materials.

Qualifications

• Have worked on live capital raises or M&A processes and run investor or buyer outreach yourself, not only built the deck and the model.
• Hold investor relationships you built personally, and can explain how each one began.
• Know what an investor needs to see before taking a meeting, and how to get a busy one to reply.
• Hold a high bar for precision. A wrong figure in an investor email costs trust that is hard to win back.
• Treat discretion as second nature. Please do not include any investor names in your application.
• Use AI tools daily, with clear judgement about where they improve your work and where they would compromise its quality.

Benefits

• A fully remote, asynchronous role
• Direct access to the co-founders and our investor team
• Close collaboration with our internal team
• Live mandates from your first week, and access to the opportunities that clear our diligence
• Insight into our internal processes, including how we screen deal flow
• A base salary plus commission