*This is a part-time role, with the option to work remotely or from our offices in Palo Alto, CA or Lehi, UT. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.*
About Sorenson Capital
Sorenson Capital is an early and growth stage venture capital firm that invests in product-oriented companies in the AI, cybersecurity, B2B software, and devops & infrastructure categories. With offices in Lehi, Utah, and Palo Alto, California, Sorenson Capital has $1.6 billion of assets under management.
Our Venture team partners with founders at the earliest stages—from inception through Series A—to help build category-defining companies. We are technologists, product thinkers, and former operators who bring deep conviction to what we do and believe in strongly supporting our portfolio companies.
About the Technology Venture Partner Role
The Technology Venture Partner will continue to help us stay ahead of the curve on the most important trends in software and technology. This is a part-time, flexible role (can range from 5-20 hours/week) and is ideal for a senior technologist who’s deeply curious, relentlessly experimental, and passionate about discovering what’s next.
The role is designed for a technology leader who has spent time bringing innovative solutions into their organizations and is well connected with product management, engineering leaders, and/or CTOs at other major organizations. This person will collaborate closely with our early-stage investment team to help source new opportunities, diligence potential investments, and support our portfolio companies in their technology initiatives.
Role & Responsibilities
- Technology Evaluation & Diligence
- Participate in weekly pitch calls and help evaluate product quality, technical differentiation, and novelty of new software startups
- Join deep-dive diligence sessions with our team to assess product-market fit, team caliber, and engineering execution
- Provide input on what’s technically hard, what’s commercially viable, and what’s truly differentiated
- Help evaluate the competitive positioning and landscape of companies to support us in picking category winners
- Sourcing & Trendspotting
- Identify emerging companies and trends within our target investment categories
- Track launches on Product Hunt, Hacker News, GitHub, and other dev communities—surfacing promising projects before they go mainstream
- Take advantage of your network to surface companies in their earliest days
- Market & Product Insights
- Develop theses with our team on fast-evolving categories and technologies
- Share frameworks and thinking on where the puck is going and how we should be looking at the long-term potential of technology trends
Who You Are
- A Director- or VP-level technologist with 10+ years in engineering, product, or technical architecture roles at high-growth or enterprise organizations
- A passionate early adopter; you fight to bring new tools into your organization, experiment constantly, and love finding the next great platform
- Fluent in the enterprise tech stack from open source infrastructure to modern SaaS to emerging LLM applications
- Interested in the venture and founder ecosystem with a desire to help shape the future of software through early-stage investing
- A strong communicator who can give crisp technical feedback to investors and (when needed) to founders
- Bonus: Previous exposure to startups, angel investing, or advisory roles with early-stage teams
Why This Role
- Flexible structure: the commitment required of this role will be catered to the individual's availability and interest, but we anticipate this ranging from 5-20 hours per week
- Deep exposure to early-stage investing and company-building at a world-class investment firm
- Work closely with Sorenson’s deal team across Palo Alto and Lehi to shape investment decisions
- Help identify and back the next generation of unicorn enterprise software companies
Hiring Commitment
At Sorenson Capital, we value people and the cumulative contributions everyone brings to the firm. We are committed to working with diverse, inclusive team players who strive for excellence.
Sorenson Capital welcomes and values candidates from all backgrounds, and we do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other protected status.
