Chief of Staff

South Park Commons (SPC) is a community of technical builders, tinkerers, and domain experts that challenge you, encourage you, and help you build and validate your ideas. We believe good ideas rarely come about in isolation. For the most talented technologists in the -1 to 0 stage of their career, SPC is the best place to explore the bounds of their creativity and ambition.

This role will have the opportunity to work closely with all the General Partners of the South Park Commons Fund: Ruchi Sanghvi, Aditya Agarwal, Evan Tana and Finn Meeks. You’ll have an incredible opportunity to work hand-in-hand with the GPs on both the community and fund to define the next generation of great companies and shepherd them to technical and operational excellence.

This role is based out of San Francisco.

Benefits

• Experience all aspects of entrepreneurship full stack from idea generation to funding and scaling
• Access to an extensive community (members, advisors, speakers) of proven innovators and operators like Reid Hoffman, Mike Krieger and Dylan Field
• Be instrumental in building and scaling South Park Commons. We’re just getting started and have a lot of interesting products and programs in the pipeline
• Successful CoS candidates will have the opportunity to move into new roles within South Park Commons, join SPC portfolio companies, or start a company of their own

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with and assist the General Partners with making investments and supporting portfolio companies
• Help us identify and reach networks of potential SPC members and founder. You are likely outgoing and eager to seek out the best builders in Silicon Valley.
• Qualify, manage, and track new investment opportunities and assist in due diligence
• Play a key role at partner meetings (proactively drive meeting preparation, ensure flawless quality of follow-through)
• Support portfolio company founders where and when it is needed as they scale their companies

Community

• Help curate and organize the speaker and workshop program at South Park Commons
• Execute flawlessly on special projects for the community including designing and building new programs that help our members navigate the -1 to 0 phase more effectively

Communications and Fund Operations

• Collaborate cross-functionally with investment team and external vendors to drive projects to completion — no project is too big or too small
• Manage and track relationships and communications within SPC portfolio community and the broader investment ecosystem.
• Successfully manage and scale partners’ outward facing activities (e.g., speaking engagements, social media)

Qualifications

• You have 0-3 years of experience but are highly ambitious.
• You’re entrepreneurial. You may have experience at a top tier startup, have founded your own company, or are eager to dive deep into the tech ecosystem.
• You’re plugged in. Digital fluency and exposure to tech and/or the tech investing ecosystem
• You’re a team player. A natural collaborator with low ego and a proactive disposition.
• You make results happen. Action-driven with a high sense of urgency that’s balanced with strong attention to detail, quality orientation and organizational skills. Plus you do all of this with a high degree of independence.
• You’ll make us look good. Extremely strong written and verbal communication skills. Arguably, you could have written a better job description than this.

General Partner Bios

Ruchi Sanghvi is the founding member of the SPC Community and a General Partner with the SPC Fund. She was the first female executive at Dropbox and served as their Vice President of Operations. She was responsible for product, marketing, communications, recruiting and other functions. She came to Dropbox through its acquisition of Cove, a company she founded in 2011. Prior to that Ruchi was the first female engineer at Facebook, and was instrumental in implementing the first versions of key features like News Feed, Facebook Platform, Facebook Connect and Privacy. Ruchi has also served as a director on the board of Paytm, India’s largest mobile payments platform, and is currently on the board of UCSF. Prior to SPC Ruchi was an active angel investor in 50+ companies including Gusto, Pinterest, Paytm, Brex, Figma and Stemcentrx. Ruchi holds a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Electrical Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Aditya Agarwal is a General Partner with the SPC Fund. He was the CTO and VP of Engineering at Dropbox where he scaled the engineering team from 25 to 1000. Before Dropbox, Aditya co-founded Cove—a company that was building modern collaboration software. Prior to Cove, Aditya was one of Facebook’s first engineers. He helped build the first versions of key products like Search, NewsFeed and Messenger. He then became Facebook’s first director of Product Engineering, overseeing engineering for products like NewsFeed, Profile, Groups and Events. Aditya served on the boards of FlipKart—India’s leading e-commerce company, Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science, and the Anita Borg Institute. He is also an active investor and advisor to Silicon Valley startups. In his spare time, Aditya likes to listen to techno music, read, travel and most of all, hang out with his two children. Aditya holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Finn Meeks is a General Partner with the SPC Fund. He joined SPC in 2019, spending his first two years as Chief of Staff for SPC Fund General Partner Ruchi Sanghvi and later became a Partner on the team. Before coming to SPC, he was a rower with the US National Team. Prior to that, he earned his master's degree at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and his bachelor's degree in Economics from Brown University. In his spare time, he enjoys being outdoors (biking, skiing, or anything else), reading economics papers, and playing with new consumer apps.

Evan Tana is a General Partner with the SPC Fund and an accomplished early-stage builder and investor. Evan began his career at Digital Chocolate, a publisher of mobile games, and Loopt, an early YCombinator startup whose ground-breaking social mapping service was one of the very first apps featured prominently by Apple.In 2009, Evan was part of the founding team at Shopkick, where he served as Vice President of Product Management. He played a key role in helping the company revenue to over $15M and reach millions of users. Shopkick was acquired by SK Telecom for $250M in 2015.Following Shopkick, Evan joined Greylock Partners as an Entrepreneur in Residence and founded Sparks Mobile, a startup that connected people through their common interests and shared storylines. Sparks Mobile was subsequently acquired by Dropbox in 2016. Evan led multiple product teams at Dropbox and helped the company ideate and launch new product initiatives. Before joining SPC, Evan was a Founding General Partner of Script Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm. He has invested in and advised over 120 companies, including Patreon, The Graph, Gamma, Unit21, Shift, Zenly, Material Security, OpenPhone and Audius, among others. Evan received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.

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