Vice President, Investor Relations

d-Matrix • San Francisco, CA

5d • $230,000 - $320,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

d-Matrix is a fast-growing, venture-backed AI inference semiconductor company. Its Corsair inference accelerator is built on Memory Centric Compute and paired with JetStream networking and Aviator software. Its next-generation Raptor platform uses 3D In-Memory Compute (3DIMC) to stack compute directly on DRAM. As the company’s first Vice President of Investor Relations, this leader will establish the investor relations function and explain the company’s technology, roadmap, and financial trajectory to shareholders, prospective investors, and sell-side analysts as d-Matrix prepares for the public markets. The role partners directly with the CEO, CFO, and executive team and connects the company’s engineers with the investment community.

This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco or New York, with travel to the Santa Clara headquarters and worldwide for investor and public relations events as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in investor relations, equity research, buy-side investing, investment banking, or corporate and strategic finance, focused on AI hardware, semiconductors, or AI infrastructure software.
• Working knowledge of the AI ecosystem, including training versus inference, GPUs, custom silicon, high-bandwidth memory, networking, and hyperscaler spending.
• Established relationships with growth, crossover, and public-market investors, sell-side analysts, and investment banks.
• Working knowledge of Regulation FD, SEC disclosure requirements, the IPO process, and roadshows.
• Excellent financial modeling, valuation, writing, and presentation skills.
• Experience building a function and team from scratch.
• Judgment, independence, and integrity to handle material non-public information and work across Finance, Technology, and Business.
• Willingness to travel for investor meetings, conferences, and roadshows.

Nice To Haves

• Deep technical fluency in AI inference and memory technology, with the ability to explain concepts such as memory bandwidth, energy per token, and 3D stacking credibly to a financial audience.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor business models, including fabless economics, gross margin drivers, supply and capacity, backlog, and customer concentration.
• Experience in a private financing round or IPO.
• MBA or CFA designation.
• Proficiency with investor CRM and market data platforms such as Bloomberg, FactSet, or Capital IQ.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a multi-year investor relations strategy aligned with corporate strategy, financing milestones, and the path to becoming a public company.
• Own the d-Matrix equity story, including the shift from training to inference, the memory wall, comparisons of Memory Centric Compute and 3DIMC with GPUs, HBM-based systems, and custom ASICs, and the Corsair-to-Raptor roadmap.
• Serve as the primary contact for existing shareholders and prospective venture, growth, crossover, strategic, sovereign, and public-market investors; build the investor pipeline and CRM.
• Partner with the CEO, CFO, and Corporate Development on capital raises, including investor outreach, data room management, diligence responses, and coordination with banks and placement agents.
• Author investor presentations, shareholder updates, executive scripts, and Q&A frameworks that translate technical milestones into clear investor messages; maintain a single source of truth for key metrics and KPIs.
• Build relationships with sell-side analysts and industry researchers, track public comparables and investor sentiment, and brief leadership and the Board on shareholder composition, market feedback, and peer activity.
• Build infrastructure for a future IPO, including disclosure policy, Regulation FD protocols, quiet-period guidelines, earnings scripts, mock earnings cycles, and the investor relations website, in partnership with Finance, Legal, and outside counsel.
• Manage disclosure and confidentiality; align investor messaging with Marketing, Communications, Sales, and Legal; prepare executives for investor meetings and conferences; and hire and manage IR team members and external vendors.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior