Investment Team Lead

We are hiring an Investment Team Lead to run our investment team. Five associates, each holding a book of investor relationships and client companies, and one leader who makes them excellent. That leader is you. Pairs is where founders come to raise capital. We pair them with the right investors from a large, engaged global investor network, then our agents manage the relationships that turn into meetings. It is a two-sided platform, live with paying clients, profitable and self-funded, built by a small, senior, flat team that ships fast. The role If you have run a team of analysts or associates at a VC fund, you already know most of this job. Your associates run mandate calls with investors, decide which company goes to which investor, write the pitch, and turn it into founder calls. You set the standard for what a good match looks like, run the weekly pipeline review, read every pass for its reason, and coach on real calls and real pitches. You still take the senior investor conversations that need you on the call. Every week you see which deals investors lean into and which they pass on, across many investment committees at once: a view very few seats in venture give you. You report directly to the two co-founders. What you will own A team of five associates: hiring, onboarding, weekly 1:1s, coaching, and their results. The weekly pipeline review: every deal in motion, every pass and its reason, and what changes next week. Match quality: every company that reaches an inves