Lab Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Relentless hunger and drive.
• Strategic thinking and structured curiosity.
• A learning posture and coachability.
• Real ability to build trust with senior buyers.
• Comfort with long, multi-stakeholder cycles or a clear appetite to learn how to run them.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• High ownership and low ego.
• Proven ability to build relationships and credibility with senior executives and external stakeholders.
• Experience managing complex, long-cycle, multi-stakeholder opportunities.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity and identify growth opportunities.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.
• Highly organized with strong follow-through, attention to detail, and pipeline management capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Strong learning agility, coachability, and intellectual curiosity.
• Willingness to travel as needed for client meetings, conferences, and consortium-related events.

Nice To Haves

• Experience within alternative investments, private equity, venture capital, real estate funds, fund administration, tax technology, accounting technology, or financial services.
• Exposure to partnership tax, K-1 workflows, fund operations, or tax compliance processes.
• Experience working within startup or high-growth SaaS environments.
• Existing relationships across institutional investors, accounting firms, fund managers, or fund administrators.
• Exposure to industry consortiums, standards organizations, or working groups.

Responsibilities

• Own pipeline development across GPs and fund managers (PE, VC, RE), LPs and institutional investors, tax and accounting firms, and fund administrators and custodians.
• Build and maintain executive relationships across the alternatives ecosystem, acting as a trusted advisor to senior decision-makers.
• Stand up a new industry consortium in partnership with the President, including identifying and recruiting founding members, shaping the charter, and driving sustained participation.
• Translate strategic value into economic narratives tailored for each persona, quantifying working-capital unlock, cycle-time compression, audit readiness, and risk reduction.
• Run discovery and demand-generation campaigns to identify adoption blockers and inform product, partnerships, and marketing priorities.
• Represent K1x at industry conferences, working groups, and roundtables, converting presence into qualified pipeline and consortium engagement.
• Maintain disciplined account plans, forecasts, and CRM hygiene for complex multi-stakeholder deals.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity participation
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible PTO and company-recognized holidays
• Fully remote work environment
• 401(k) program
• Paid parental leave