AI Investor - Associate

About the role

A leading early-stage venture capital fund is seeking an AI-focused Investor to lead its thinking and investing across the rapidly evolving artificial intelligence ecosystem. This full-time role involves developing conviction around AI, building relationships with exceptional founders, and identifying companies that will define the category. The fund has approximately 20 team members, including an investment team of around 12, and recently raised a new approximately $220 million fund that remains early in its deployment. Its AI portfolio spans consumer applications, infrastructure, research, and agents. The investment model combines early entry positions with the ability to concentrate capital behind opportunities where the team has the strongest conviction.

Responsibilities

• Build and own a distinctive investment perspective across the AI landscape
• Source and evaluate new opportunities
• Develop relationships with founders and technical communities
• Lead investments from initial thesis through diligence and decision‑making
• Assess emerging technologies, markets, competitive dynamics, business models, and valuations
• Help the wider partnership maintain a current, differentiated view of the ecosystem

Qualifications

• Has deployed capital as part of an investment team and can demonstrate genuine, independently developed conviction about AI
• Preferred level is Principal, with openness to exceptional candidates from Principal through Partner
• New York or San Francisco is preferred, but location is not an absolute requirement

Skills

• Ability to discuss foundation‑model competition, open‑source versus closed‑source ecosystems, AI infrastructure, application‑layer opportunities, consumer adoption, and changing valuation dynamics
• Strong technical breadth (important, though the role is investing‑focused, not engineering)
• Experience with consumer‑facing AI companies
• Track record of building personal networks and reputation rather than relying solely on firm brand
• Strong investment judgement
• Access to exceptional founders
• Credible experience evaluating or deploying capital