Manager, Entrepreneur Experience Jobs

Company Description
Endeavor is the leading global community of, by, and for high-impact entrepreneurs. Endeavor inspires the world’s fastest growing entrepreneurs to dream bigger, scale faster, and pay it forward. We select Endeavor Entrepreneurs by identifying founders with the greatest growth potential and inviting them to participate in our proprietary international selection process. We support Endeavor Entrepreneurs with our unrivaled global network, peer-to-peer community, and demand driven services. Endeavor focuses on growth stage businesses and supports their transformation into lasting enterprises through curated access to world-class mentors, smart capital, global markets, and talent programs. Our region’s Endeavor Entrepreneurs include the founders from some of the Southeast’s fastest growing companies including OneTrust, SalesLoft, Flock Safety, LeaseQuery, and Fleetio.
Founded in 1997 as a non-profit to catalyze long-term innovation around the world, Endeavor has selected over 2,000 entrepreneurs across 39 markets. Endeavor Atlanta, an independent affiliate of Endeavor Global, was founded in 2017 with the support of Cox Enterprises and a world class Board of Directors. Our region’s Endeavor Entrepreneurs have collectively created over 7,000 jobs, raised over $1.5B in capital and generated over $700M in annual revenue.
Position Description
We are seeking a growth-minded leader to join our operations in Atlanta to lead our Entrepreneur Experience efforts in Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas. The ideal candidate is passionate about entrepreneurship, understands cutting edge business models that shape the future and can find prescriptive ways to support founders’ growth.
This position will report directly to the Endeavor Atlanta Managing Director and work closely with the entire Endeavor Atlanta staff, Board, Advisory Council, local community of entrepreneurs and mentor network. The EX Manager will also interact heavily with Endeavor’s Global and Regional (US, CA, Ireland) network to support our growing portfolio of entrepreneurs.
We provide a dynamic and entrepreneurial environment for someone who enjoys challenges and is a self-starter. This position has a unique opportunity to take a significant role in selecting and supporting Endeavor Entrepreneurs to help build the ecosystem of high-growth entrepreneurship in the Southeast. They will have a pivotal role in developing Endeavor’s regional brand and creating connectivity across our local markets. They will also interact with leading venture investors, helping source top companies and connect portfolio companies that are raising growth capital. Endeavor staff members also have a unique opportunity to travel globally and interact with some of the world’s leading entrepreneurs, investors, and high-growth business leaders.
Key Responsibilities

• Attend events throughout the year to source candidates and build Endeavor’s brand
• Entrepreneur Sourcing & Selection
• Conduct diligence on qualified entrepreneurs and filter the top candidates to begin Endeavor’s selection process
• Endeavor Entrepreneur Growth Support
• Lead the sourcing of the highest potential entrepreneurs across Metro Atlanta, Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas
• Co-lead community building amongst our entrepreneur portfolio and top candidates
• Contribute to the creation of new entrepreneur services where required
• Build a repeatable engine to source top founders and convert their interest into starting Endeavor’s unique selection process
• Coordinate local and regional selection panels
• Coach candidate entrepreneurs through the selection process through mentor research and outreach, meeting coordination, and company profile documentation
• Lead support for 8-10 Endeavor Entrepreneur accounts
• Oversee the upkeep of operational data on candidate and selected entrepreneurs
• Anticipate the needs of portfolio companies through a unique understanding of their business, growth challenges and Endeavor’s portfolio of services. These include working with Endeavor’s access to capital team and venture community to support fundraising, working with global endeavor offices to help with geographic expansion, understanding and evaluating talent needs, and much more.

Requirements

• A roll up the sleeves attitude: is willing to go from interacting with founders and highly successful entrepreneurs to taking detailed notes and scheduling meetings
• Four+ years of experience in a startup, venture investing, strategy consulting or investment banking
• High interpersonal and organizational abilities and strong attention to detail
• Strong interest in entrepreneurship, business innovation and venture capital
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment that requires constant learning
• Familiarity with business product software (Google Suite, MS Office, Salesforce, Excel modeling)
• Strong business acumen and an understanding of finance to help identify and evaluate entrepreneurs, business models, growth markets and business trends
• Relationship based sales and/or business development experience is required
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Willingness to travel on an infrequent basis (e.g., one trip per month)

As a mission-oriented non-for-profit, Endeavor seeks someone who is aligned with our values

• Go Big: You’re someone whose curiosity drives them to dream (and execute!) big as Endeavor reimagines its service offerings to entrepreneurs
• Always Agile: You believe in the importance of planning but never hesitate to change plans in the face of new data and circumstances
• One Endeavor: You’re comfortable working across cultures and will thrive on working with colleagues in over 30 different countries around the world.
• Entrepreneur First: You are mission-oriented and believe in Endeavor’s model to change the world through high-impact entrepreneurship
• Pay It Forward: You’re someone with a service-oriented attitude, who asks “What can I do?” before asking “What can I get?”
• Network of Trust: You’re great with people! You naturally build and maintain relationships with key players and have the superior interpersonal skills needed to build trust with our entrepreneurs, mentors and teams in over 40 markets.

Benefits
Competitive salary and benefits including flexible vacation policy, highly remote working environment, 401K plans with company matching, medical/vision/dental reimbursement benefits and unique bonus incentives and professional development opportunities.