Entrepreneur First - Manager - Founder Talent & Partnerships

The Role

There are two main aspects to this role of Manager - Talent and Partnerships:

1. Founder Identification and Acquisition

High potential founders are our number one operating priority and as Talent Manager, you will deliver the EF process of helping build startups from scratch by identifying and sourcing top talent for the EF programme in Bangalore. You have to make sure that the world's best potential founders are aware of, and want to join EF.

Your team's primary responsibility is to design, drive and manage EF's Talent strategy in Bangalore going forward. This means you will be shaping and innovating the ways and processes in which we engage smart, talented individuals with strong founder potential, and encourage them to join us and start companies. You need to:

- Define what good founders look like

- Find ways to identify them and build bridges to connect with them

- Define strategies to build EF's brand in India and identify new channels to reach high potential founders

Convince them about EF's value proposition and to choose EF as their path to entrepreneurship

Run a tight Talent ship to deliver against targets by owning every step of the process from outreach and first interactions to selection and founders starting the Program.

You will be collaborating closely with the other Program team as well as your counterparts in other global locations of EF.

2. Partnerships

Building EF as a formidable brand in Bangalore for entrepreneurship will involve building deep connects with the right partners in the ecosystem including, but not limited to, the top academic institutions in the country. You will own this for EF Bangalore, and will be responsible for building the "Talent moats" in the ecosystem which enable a strong, sustainable pipeline.

About You

- You have a highly credible background with 6-8 years of experience

- You have extensive experience managing the end-to-end recruitment funnel and understand how to manage different levers and deliver against metrics

- You have deep skills in managing candidate experience and building relationships

- You're comfortable in high pressure, target-driven environments

- You've had exposure to running a team, mentoring people and know what it takes to build a high performance organisation.

- You have strong communication and presentation skills, plus excellent organisational ability / process excellence

- You're comfortable working in cross geography and functional teams with multiple stakeholders.

- Demonstrated ability to manage and build peer-like relationships with stakeholders at the highest level, including academics and university staff, senior professionals, government officials etc

- Experience with marketing and community building is desired

What We Offer

- A competitive salary and a share of the fund's upside

- A work environment with a team of smart and committed people, along with a very open and accessible team culture

- A buzzing space full of technical founders working on cutting-edge, world changing businesses

- The opportunity to supercharge your learning by working with a talented, ambitious and supportive global team who are passionate about inclusivity

- Generous holidays: in addition to 23 days per year, we also close the office down for two weeks over Christmas and New Year

- A Learning & Development allowance to purchase any product or service that will contribute to your personal or professional development

- A Wellness allowance to spend on things enhancing your health and wellbeing, e.g. gym membership, yoga classes, Vitality, subscription to Headspace etc

- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, plus broader leave policies. We care about our team and enabling the right balance between home and working life

ABOUT ENTREPRENEUR FIRST

Entrepreneur First is the world's leading talent investor. Since 2011, we've pioneered a new model of company creation, with over 2,000 individuals having been through our programmes in London, Singapore, Berlin, Paris, Bangalore and Toronto. To date, they've created 300+ companies with a combined valuation of over $5 billion, including Magic Pony Technology (AI, acquired by Twitter), Represent (social commerce, acquired by CustomInk), BloomsburyAI (acquired by Facebook), Tractable (AI), OpenCosmos (space) and many more.

We're proud to be backed by renowned investors such as Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Demis Hassabis (Google's Deepmind) and Taavet Hinrikus (TransferWise), fueling our ambitious plan to create hundreds more impactful start ups in the next few years. Our team is central to shaping, enabling and supporting this journey, bringing exciting growth focused opportunities as part of our programme delivery or global functions.

EF champions diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment in which a variety of backgrounds thrive. We do not tolerate discrimination of any nature including but not limited to discriminating on the basis of race, colour, religion, culture, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, sexual preference, age, disability, or marital status.