What are the responsibilities and job description for the Venture Capital Chief of Staff position at Sidekick Partners?
January 2025
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Venture Capital Chief of Staff
Job Description
Sidekick is seeking a full-time Chief of Staff. This is a unique opportunity to gain exposure to all aspects of venture capital, including investment decisions, fund management, portfolio company support, and other fund-related activities. The Chief of Staff will be a utility player who owns workstreams across the operational, business development, and investment support teams. The position will be based in New York City or Dallas-Fort Worth, and will be in-office at least 3 days per week.
Example responsibilities
- Manage a wide variety of ad hoc projects
- Assist investment team with market research, channel checks, competitive analyses, founder references, and other due diligence
- Help manage the investment pipeline, including the preparation and distribution of a weekly deal pipeline summary
- Help prepare materials for internal team meetings and external investor updates
- Maintain internal databases, including portfolio company valuations
- Help monitor existing portfolio companies, including interaction with founders
Skills, abilities, and personality
- High integrity and low ego
- Good listener
- Strong work ethic – this is not a 9-to-5 role; it is common to work evenings and a few hours per weekend
- Self-motivated, dependable, and able to work independently
- Comfort with public speaking and cold calling
- High level of maturity and discretion for confidential information
- Very well-organized, conscientious, and detail-oriented
- Exceptional with Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides and presentations
- Comfort with Microsoft Excel and analysis
Ideal candidates meet one or more of the following criteria
- Recent graduate with up to 3 years of professional experience in consulting, banking, or strategy
- Strong desire to grow within the venture capital and startup communities
How to apply
Please complete the survey form below, and upload your pdf resume. A Gmail account is required for the resume upload.
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Note: We will only consider applicants who apply via the survey form above. We will not consider applicants who apply directly on LinkedIn.
Company
Sidekick is a venture capital fund with offices in New York City and Dallas-Fort Worth. Sidekick invests in the technology and consumer industries and has invested in more than 90 early-stage companies since the firm was founded in 2013. Portfolio companies include:
- Halo Top – one of the largest ice cream companies in the United States by pints sold. Acquired.
- Chronograph – market leading software company that provides data to private equity funds.
- DailyPay – one of the largest and fastest growing fintech payroll factoring companies.
- Ring – largest consumer tech video doorbell and home security company. Acquired by Amazon.
- Rebuy – market leading software company in the Shopify ecosystem.
- HealthJoy – large healthtech benefits management platform.
- Evereden – large and fast growing baby and family skincare brand.
- Nutpods – large and fast growing non-dairy coffee creamer company. Acquired.
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