Head of Investor Relations & Capital Formation

Illumen Capital • Oakland, CA

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

Illumen Capital is a multi-strategy investment firm investing in direct investments, fund-of-funds investments, and public equities. The firm invests in high-performing venture, growth, and private equity funds and works with managers and founders to apply research-informed strategies and tools addressing bias in investing. Its areas of focus include health and wellness, education, climate and sustainability, and technologies advancing financial and social inclusion. Illumen partners with Stanford SPARQ and Impact Experience and launched a U.S. public equities impact strategy in collaboration with T. Rowe Price.

As Illumen Capital scales toward a $1 billion investment platform, the Head of Investor Relations & Capital Formation will lead fundraising strategy, deepen relationships with existing limited partners, and expand the institutional investor base. Reporting to the Managing Director and working closely with the investment team and firm leadership, this executive will personally originate and close commitments, communicate Illumen’s research-backed investment approach, and help strengthen the systems and operating cadence needed for sustained growth.

This is a full-time, hybrid role based out of Illumen’s Oakland, California office. It requires approximately 50% travel to meet investors and attend conferences, firm events, and industry gatherings.

Requirements

• Demonstrated passion for building a more equitable world and belief that addressing bias in investment decision-making can unlock stronger performance and deeper impact.
• Significant experience in institutional fundraising, investor relations, and capital formation, with a record of personally originating relationships and closing meaningful commitments.
• Active relationships across relevant investor channels, particularly consultants and OCIOs, foundations, endowments, pensions, family offices, wealth platforms, and mission-aligned investors, that can be activated.
• Strong investment fluency and ability to communicate portfolio strategy, performance, attribution, risk, impact, and Illumen’s approach to addressing bias to sophisticated investment committees.
• Excellent writing, speaking, facilitation, and relationship-management skills, with the judgment and presence to represent Illumen as a trusted senior external face.
• Organized, data-driven approach to pipeline management, forecasting, meeting preparation, follow-up, diligence, and reporting.
• Fluency with Affinity, PitchBook, or comparable systems.
• Ability to operate strategically and hands-on as a senior executive at an entrepreneurial, growing investment firm.
• Collaborative team-player approach, including sharing information and credit, supporting collective decisions, and contributing to shared outcomes.
• High integrity, discretion, resilience, curiosity, self-awareness, and commitment to continuous learning and self-improvement.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in multi-asset-class strategies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a comprehensive capital formation strategy across Illumen’s investment offerings to support progress toward $1 billion in assets under management.
• Originate, qualify, cultivate, and close commitments from institutional investors, consultants and OCIOs, family offices, foundations, endowments, pension plans, wealth platforms, and high-net-worth individuals.
• Lead prospective investors through the full fundraising process, including initial meetings, qualification, diligence, negotiation, Investment Committee approval, and signed subscriptions.
• Manage senior relationships with current limited partners and strengthen re-ups, referrals, co-investment relationships, and engagement across private-market and public-equities offerings.
• Establish fundraising goals, probability-weighted forecasts, conversion metrics, and an operating system with clear ownership and accountability.
• Communicate Illumen’s investment performance, research addressing bias, and impact thesis to sophisticated investors across private and public markets.
• Position Illumen across impact-investing, emerging-manager, consultant, institutional, and private-wealth channels; monitor allocation trends, investor sentiment, and competitive fundraising dynamics.
• Provide market intelligence to firm leadership to inform fundraising priorities, product development, investor segmentation, and potential structures or strategies aligned with Illumen’s mission.
• Lead investor communications and experiences, including LP meetings, quarterly and annual reporting, impact communications, advisory engagement, conferences, regional campaigns, and relationship-building events.
• Oversee pitch books, fact sheets, due-diligence questionnaires, data-room content, customized investor requests, website and newsletter content, and other external materials for accuracy and consistency.
• Collaborate with investment, finance, operations, legal, compliance, and impact colleagues and contribute to a collaborative, accountable, team-first culture.
• Build and lead a high-performing investor relations and capital formation operation, including the systems, processes, institutional knowledge, and capabilities required to scale.

Benefits

• Employer-covered health insurance plans.
• 401(k).
• Financial support for professional development opportunities.
• Opportunity to work in a mission-driven environment with access to a distinguished network of investors, fund managers, researchers, leaders, and mentors.
• Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus based on factors such as individual and team performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed