Job Description

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are hiring a critical, adaptable Associate with a partnership mindset to help grow our platform. Our credit fund is the latest strategy within our broader urban technology investment platform and we are building the critical early leadership team that will steward its growth.

We are among a new generation of lenders applying rigorous, asset-backed / contract finance and bottom-up underwriting to early venture-backed companies. We are sector specialists with a dedicated focus across infra-tech, climate-tech and emerging urban technology sectors.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate excellent technical and strategic investment acumen and is excited to dig in on and nuances of credit underwriting and analysis. We are also looking for someone who does not rest on the status quo and is excited to push boundaries of both venture capital and private credit as an asset class.

Finally, we are looking for someone with high integrity and a sense of mission around sustainability and the future of distributed energy, food, water, waste, mobility and logistics and a desire to catalyze and support seed-stage startups.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

You will be a critical member of the investment leadership team where we all wear multiple hats across deal sourcing, reconnaissance, and analysis and each contributes to building and managing a world-class portfolio of startup investments. This means that in addition to being highly technically proficient, you must have the ability to think critically about the businesses and markets we invest in. Ultimately, as is the case for all team members, we would hope that the combination of your talents and passions as well as learned experiences will excite you to provide leadership in our market, whether through content, product development or other creative partnerships that move our mission forward.

As you evolve with the role, we expect you will grow into a thought partner, stress testing hypotheses and investment ideas and identifying new themes and opportunities to pursue.

FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Translating startup business models (often with little documentation) into functional, quantitative excel models, including P&L forecasting, scenario analysis and discounted cash flow and other valuation analysis.

• Synthesize and present complex concepts in compelling form and style; advocate for priority investments and emerging investment theses.

• Manage relationship with high value investors and stakeholders

• Gather and synthesize disparate financial, research and primary startup interview data into compelling investment theses and written investment memos.

• Cogently present investment analysis to team members, limited partners, startups and/or other key stakeholders.

• Stay abreast of startup news and industry trends that critically impact our core urban tech thesis.

• Proactive use of reading and writing to keep a distributed team in sync.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree ideally with coursework in economics, finance, statistics, business, physics or math

• 3 years (minimum) of relevant work experience in traditional finance (credit, leveraged finance, or structured finance), fund management or impact investing preferred

• Experienced in investment management and transactional finance. This experience could come in the form of deal feasibility, analysis, underwriting, structuring, consulting due diligence and fundraising

• High technical proficiency (i.e. comfortable with three-statement financial analysis, credit underwriting, valuation analysis, and expert Excel modeling skills)

• Demonstrated interest in technology and the future of cities including electrification, sustainability, mobility/micro-mobility, built environment, public safety, and/or government efficiency.

• Ability to communicate confidently and competently with sophisticated investors, institutions and corporations and other stakeholders.

• Comfort with (or eager to learn) advanced data analysis tools such as R, Tableau, Python, etc. is a plus.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

• Highest ethical standards and integrity; can handle sensitive and confidential information and relationships.

• Team player with an abundance mindset and attitude of shared success

• Quick learner and have the ability to learn/adopt new systems and technologies

• Can work independently with minimal supervision as well as part of a team and will not only do the required work but naturally look for opportunities to improve the process and platform growth.

Company Description

WHO WE ARE Urban Us is the leading early-stage investor for startups reimagining cities. We believe startups will play a central role in making city life better and more resilient as they redesign cities for radically lower greenhouse gas emissions, improved efficiency, and improved quality of life. We built Urban Us as a hybrid venture and credit investment firm and operating platform to support urban transformation and allocate financial and intellectual capital toward these goals. Our focus on cities and climate change derives from an essential realization that cities are home to some of the most at-risk people and assets around the world and we need new ways to strengthen resilience and create pathways for revitalization and economic growth. OUR CULTURE Our firm values innovation, people, and relationships over transactions. Even though we are an investment firm, we think and function like a startup. We are vehicle agnostic, opportunistic and oriented towards solving problems and building something world-changing and impactful. We are a distributed team that conducts business across geography and media and uses the discipline of writing, frequent updates, trust, and coordination to maintain high function and autonomy.