Senior Associate, AI
About The Position
Company Ventures is a first-check venture firm investing in pre-seed and seed companies building data- and application-layer AI businesses across healthcare, fintech, and business software. The firm also operates Terrarium, a healthcare venture studio that incubates companies alongside operator entrepreneurs-in-residence. The Senior Associate, AI is a new senior investment-team position focused on AI. The role sources and diligences investments, builds financial models, contributes to investment decisions, and helps develop the firm’s AI investment perspective. It also brings hands-on AI fluency to the firm’s internal tools and workflows and supports portfolio companies with AI-related decisions. The position is embedded with the investment team and offers a clear path toward Principal for the right person. The role also co-owns the firm’s Residency program, working alongside the Associate responsible for day-to-day logistics and management. The position is based in person at the firm’s offices at 22 Vanderbilt.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of investing or directly relevant analytical experience.
- Experience as an analyst or associate at a bank, private equity firm, or venture firm, including building financial models under scrutiny.
- Ability to build models that show how a deal returns capital under different scenarios using a cap table, growth curve, and assumptions, and to identify the assumptions that matter most.
- Ability to take and defend an investment position in a partner meeting under genuine pushback.
- Daily use of frontier models and coding agents, with the ability to contribute to internal tooling.
- Willingness and enthusiasm to work in person at the offices at 22 Vanderbilt.
Responsibilities
- Run point on deal analysis for opportunities nearing investment committee consideration.
- Initiate and conduct end-to-end diligence on AI-native opportunities.
- Build financial models and stress-test growth, margin, and compute-cost assumptions.
- Defend investment views in partner meetings and contribute to investment decisions.
- Pressure-test technical claims and explain how the technical assessment affects potential investment returns.
- Develop the firm’s perspective on the direction of the AI stack and translate it into actionable investment theses.
- Source AI-native investment opportunities directly.
- Partner with talent and community functions to bring AI founders and technical operators into the firm’s pipeline.
- Represent Company Ventures at technical communities, labs, and events attended by AI-native founders and operators.
- Support portfolio companies with AI build-versus-buy decisions and technical hiring.
- Co-own the Residency program, attend key events, and help drive the program’s success alongside the Associate responsible for day-to-day logistics and management.
- Contribute hands-on AI fluency to the firm’s internal operations, tools, and workflows.
- Serve as a credible, current voice on the capabilities of the latest models and agents.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
