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About the Role

Activate is seeking a relationship-driven Senior Investment Manager to help first-time hard-tech entrepreneurs raise capital for scaling breakthrough science. This role involves applying capital fluency, coaching, and operational discipline to support entrepreneurs, design new tools, and manage the internal investment fund.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic advisor to Activate Fellows, supporting their development of tailored capital strategies.
• Serve as a trusted translator of VC priorities and incentive structures for first-time entrepreneurs.
• Balance high-touch individual support with designing systems that scale support across Activate's community.
• Support recurring programming, including cohort launches, working with cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with fellowship teams to develop written guides, frameworks, capital journey case studies, and learning assets.
• Deepen Activate's relationships with investors and funders across the capital stack.
• Actively manage and enhance Activate's capital network database.
• Represent Activate externally, establishing it as a trusted, high-signal source of investable opportunities.
• Design and execute investment events: Investor Days, salons, capital roundtables, curated 1:1s, and investor onboarding.
• Turn company funding data into insight, using analytics to make internal and external recommendations.
• Spot problems in the fellow or investor experience, and design, trial, and iterate on new solutions.
• Build on successes from the venture model of investment support to provide guidance across the full spectrum of commercialization pathways.
• Lead research and development of additional vehicles or partnerships to help entrepreneurs access early, flexible capital.

Requirements

• Brings 5+ years of experience across capital programs, early stage startups, or entrepreneurial support organizations, with fluency in investor models and incentives.
• Demonstrates exceptional program management skills, capable of navigating complex, cross-functional workstreams with structure, clarity, and follow-through.
• Is energized by ambiguity, comfortable making decisions independently, and able to prioritize among projects according to impact.
• Thrives in relationship-rich roles, is able to quickly build trust and is eager to invest significant time building relationships with entrepreneurs and ecosystem partners.
• Has strong communication skills can synthesize complex ideas adapted to their audience.
• Brings a systems mindset—able to spot patterns, codify best practices, and contribute to scalable solutions without losing sight of individual needs.
• Is highly numerate, comfortable with financial tracking, database management, and using data to guide decisions.
• Has a strong sense of ownership, humility, and accountability.

Skills

• Capital fluency
• Coaching instinct
• Operational discipline
• Relationship building
• Program management
• Communication
• Systems thinking
• Financial tracking
• Database management
• Data analysis

Location

• Bay Area (CA)
• Boston (MA)
• New York (NY)
• Houston (TX)
• US-based

Work Type

• Full-time
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• 5+ years of experience

Salary/Compensations

• $125,000

Benefits

• Professional development
• $2,000 in annual wellness funds
• Flexible paid time off
• Healthcare coverage for employees and dependents, with 90–100% of premiums covered
• Opportunity to join a retirement plan with a 3% match beginning after 3 months

About the Company

• Activate is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to turning scientific discoveries into real-world impact.
• Through partnerships with government, philanthropy, universities, and industry, Activate builds the cross-sector ecosystem that drives hard tech innovation—equipping scientists and engineers with world-class resources, training, and community to bring their work from discovery to deployment.
• Since 2015, Activate's flagship fellowship has supported nearly 350 fellows across the United States, who have launched more than 275 companies and secured over $5.5 billion in follow-on funding.
• Activate is expanding beyond its flagship program, reaching scientists and engineers at more stages of their entrepreneurial journey across the world—multiplying the pathways from innovation to commercialization.

Equal Opportunity

• We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a welcoming workplace for all employees.
• All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.
• We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
• Activate Global, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.