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About the Role
This role is for an early-career investment professional within Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG), the venture and growth equity arm of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP). The Investment Associate will gain hands-on exposure across the full investment lifecycle, from origination through due diligence, deal execution, and portfolio monitoring. The role reports to a Director or Principal on TVG's North American direct investments team and involves cross-functional collaboration with global investment professionals and other OTPP teams.
Responsibilities
- Play a critical role across all stages of the investment process: origination, due diligence, deal execution, and portfolio monitoring
- Develop investment theses and financial models including projections, sensitivity analysis, and valuations
- Drive sector research to identify investment targets and perform competitive analysis
- Prepare investment memos and present recommendations to internal committees
- Build and maintain relationships with founders, investors, and service providers to support deal sourcing
- Evaluate and monitor ongoing portfolio company performance, and support strategic initiatives and reporting requirements
- Represent TVG at industry conferences and annual meetings
Requirements
- 2+ years of investment or deal experience (investment banking, private equity, VC, hedge fund, management consulting)
- Bachelor's degree required or equivalent experience
- Strong financial modelling and quantitative analysis skills, with advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
- Strong work ethic, team mindset, communication & presentation skills
- Ability to work independently and thrive in a high-performance team environment
- Genuine passion for disruptive technology and the startup ecosystem
- Willingness to actively experiment with and adopt AI workflow tools as the technology and our practices evolve
Skills
- Financial modelling
- Quantitative analysis
- Excel proficiency
- PowerPoint proficiency
- Work ethic
- Team mindset
- Communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Independent work
- Passion for disruptive technology
- Passion for startup ecosystem
- AI workflow tools adoption
Location
- San Francisco
- North America
- Flexible work environment (in office collaboration and remote working)
- Work abroad (up to a month each year)
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid (in office collaboration and remote working)
Experience Level
- Early-career investment professional
- 2+ years of investment or deal experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- USD $140,000 to $180,000 (base salary range)
- Eligible to participate in Teachers' annual incentive plan
Benefits
- Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development
- Comprehensive employer paid benefits coverage
- Flexible work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
- Competitive time off
- Flexible Travel Program (option to work abroad in another region/country for up to a month each year)
About the Company
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) manages US$200+ billion in net assets.
- OTPP has a 9.2% annualized total-fund net return since inception in 1990.
- OTPP invests to deliver retirement income for 340,000 working members and pensioners.
- OTPP invests to shape a better future for the teachers served, the businesses backed, and the world.
- Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG) is the venture and growth equity arm of OTPP.
- TVG focuses on investing in high-growth technology companies.
- TVG's 30+ investors work from offices in San Francisco, Toronto, London, Singapore, and Mumbai.
- TVG backs high-growth technology companies at the frontier of AI, enterprise software, climate/energy transition, and financial services.
- TVG focuses on companies with established product-market fit, with initial commitments ranging from $50M–$250M of equity.
- TVG's portfolio includes SpaceX, Anthropic, Databricks, Canva, Gusto, and Epic Games.
- Ontario Teachers offers a work experience that inspires, encourages talent development, celebrates diversity and rewards superior performance.
- OTPP aims to be the world’s leading pension plan.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity is one of Ontario Teachers' core strengths.
- OTPP ensures that the people hired and the culture created reflect and embrace diversity of thought, background and experience.
- OTPP celebrates diversity and fosters inclusion through its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).
- OTPP is building an inclusive and equitable workplace where talent is respected, accepted and empowered to be themselves.
- Accommodations are available upon request for candidates with a disability taking part in the recruitment process and once hired.