Senior Associate

At Unreasonable, we build community between entrepreneurs, institutions, and investors to profitably solve pressing global problems. We believe entrepreneur-led businesses, building rapidly scalable solutions, are the greatest resource available for addressing the most significant social and environmental challenges of our time. Every day, our team strives to give the entrepreneurs we work with an unfair advantage to succeed. We do this by connecting them with our network of mentors, investors, business leaders, and policymakers who are positioned to help them drive greater impact and scale their businesses faster. Today, the 400+ ventures in the Unreasonable Fellowship have raised more than $16B in financing, generated more than $15B in revenue, and are measurably impacting the lives of over 1.4 billion individuals in nearly every country and territory worldwide. But we’re just getting started.

We are now searching for a Portfolio & Investment Selection Senior Associate (“Associate”) who will report to the Director of Portfolio & Investment Selection (“Director”), working collaboratively with the rest of The Portfolio & Investment Selection Team (“PIST”) in sourcing for impactful, scalable, and investible ventures from across the globe for our Unreasonable Fellowship and identifying compelling, investible opportunities from therein that are brought forward to the consideration of the Unreasonable Syndicate investment vehicle. Portfolio & Investment Selection is the fuel and drive of Unreasonable in supporting our entrepreneurs and their ventures. This role is designed to refine that fuel and ensure the ventures we induct into the Fellowship are the best suited to achieve scale, commercial success and impact.

For this position, we’re looking for someone with sharp analytical skills, excellent communication, and a proven ability to identify and evaluate investible opportunities. The ideal candidate will bring experience working with early or growth-stage ventures, strong commercial and impact instincts, and the ability to assess business models, market potential, and founder fit with nuance and speed. Most importantly, they should thrive on engaging with entrepreneurs, investors, and ecosystem partners, building authentic relationships grounded in trust and curiosity. The Associate will be responsible for surfacing ventures that are not only a fit for the Unreasonable Fellowship, but also compelling investment opportunities for the Unreasonable Syndicate. This role blends thoughtful diligence with intuitive pattern recognition, requiring a balance of detail orientation and big-picture thinking. The Associate will work closely with the Director to continuously sharpen our sourcing strategy and investment lens, collaborating across American, European, and Asian time zones as needed.

POSITION MISSION

The mission of the Portfolio & Investment Selection Senior Associate is to identify and surface the most impactful, scalable, and investible ventures for the Unreasonable Fellowship and the Unreasonable Syndicate. This role exists to ensure that every company brought into our ecosystem is best positioned for long-term success through thoughtful sourcing, rigorous diligence, and collaborative partner engagement.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Sourcing & Pipeline Building

• Build and maintain an ongoing pipeline of attractive venture opportunities by cultivating relationships with top-tier investors, accelerators, ecosystem partners.
• As needed, conduct top-down market research to identify promising ventures within specific opportunity areas as identified alongside our Partners.
• Proactively screen and identify early and growth-stage ventures with strong commercial potential and measurable impact for consideration of the Unreasonable Fellowship and Unreasonable Syndicate.
• Gain access to the most attractive ventures and founders to explore, and ultimately invite, them into the Unreasonable Fellowship.
  

Fellowship Selection & Investment Due Diligence

• Lead first-pass venture assessments, gathering critical data points on market, traction, team, technology, financials etc.
• Conduct any external reference checks and support Partner due diligence processes required before Fellowship induction.
• Prepare internal diligence notes to support and influence decision-making around Fellowship induction and Syndicate investment opportunities.
• Work across the Portfolio and Investment teams to ensure the strongest investment opportunities are identified and positioned for capital access.
• Help founders articulate their investibility, including pitch clarity, data room organization, and storytelling.
  

Stakeholder / Partner Collaboration

• Regularly engage with Partners and their functional teams to understand potential market opportunities and generate alignment on venture solutions.
• Develop due diligence summaries, investment briefs, and other materials tailored for external Partners and internal Portfolio & Investment teams.
• Lead and contribute to calls to provide updates on deal sourcing, diligence progress to external Partners.
• Lead on screening and highlighting investment recommendations for internal Portfolio & Investment teams.
• Manage expectations, timelines, and communications with Partners, addressing any challenges or concerns in close coordination with the Director.
  

Strategic & Team Contribution

• Share insights and trends from venture sourcing and diligence into broader capital formation efforts across Unreasonable
• In the absence of the Director, support internal decision-making, serve as a thought partner to junior teammates, and help resolve founder or partner challenges
• Contribute to continuous improvement of internal processes, tooling, and EOS systems with a focus on outcomes.
  

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR...

• Minimum of two to three years of experience in early/growth-stage venture capital, management consulting, investment banking, accelerator programming, or founder-facing capital advisory.
• A critical thinker with strong pattern recognition for venture-backable opportunities with a track record of sourcing, diligencing, and backing early or growth-stage teams.
• Commercial and numerical fluency in market sizing, cap tables, unit economics, traction metrics, and team assessment.
• Well-networked within the impact venture ecosystem, or excited to grow your network of investors, founders and ecosystem builders across the globe.
• Skilled in Excel and Powerpoint and other supporting tools such as Pitchbook, Airtable, ChatGPT, Notion, Google Suite etc.
• Comfortable working across time zones with global founders and teammates (the role requires working in multiple timezones throughout the year)
• A natural, authentic relationship builder.
• You always follow up and follow through on time.
• You are never the person who says, “That’s not my job”.
• You believe that when work is done well, magic is in the details.
• You are what we would refer to as a GyShiDo Master.
• As you read about Unreasonable’s guiding principles and values, you get more and more excited with each value you come across.
  

APPLICATION TIMELINE

• July 10th: Application goes live.
• July 30th: Your application is due.
• August 6th - 8th: If you are invited to the next round of the process, we will schedule a 25 minute phone call with you.
• August 12th - 20th: Assuming both of us want to continue exploring the potential of working together, we'll invite you to a longer interview with our team.
• August 20th - 22nd: We will conduct reference checks on the two to three most compelling applicants for this position.
• August 25th: Assuming you made it through the reference checks, you will be notified whether or not the position is yours.
• September 22nd: Ideally, those accepted will be able to join the company no later than Monday, September 22nd.

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The Unreasonable team is made up of passionate souls dedicated to the idea that entrepreneurs are our best bet at solving the greatest challenges of our time. We’re thinkers and doers, writers and makers, engineers and firefighters =) Though we’re headquartered in Boulder, CO we have teammates from London to New York and a community that spans from Sao Paulo to Hong Kong.

We offer all full-time employees at Unreasonable Group comprehensive benefits including health, vision, and dental insurance with company contributions for yourself and your dependents, a Simple IRA retirement plan with 3% company match, unlimited paid vacation with a mandatory minimum aggregate of 2-weeks off per employee per year, and 12-weeks paid parental leave. We want to encourage our teammates to be the best versions of themselves in both work and life and hope our benefits, inspired by our values, reflect this.

To support an international team, we have partnered with Employer of Record services all over the world. All international positions will be employed via our EoR partners. We do our best to ensure that our international teammates receive comparable benefits and enjoy a comparable employee experience as our US based team in accordance and in compliance with local laws and regulations.

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At Unreasonable, our goal is to become a global brand with a diverse team that is representative of the community we serve. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, sexual orientation, political affiliation or any other non-job-related factors. We value diversity and are committed to building a team and an inclusive culture that represents a global perspective of experiences, skills, backgrounds, and expertise. The more inclusive we are, the faster we can realize our vision of becoming the world's most trusted community in service of a more connected and regenerative economy.

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