Research and Insights for European ClimateTech VC

about 3 years ago
Full time role
Malmö, Skåne County, SE... more
Malmö, Skåne County, SE... more

Company

Pale Blue Dot is a €53M seed-stage venture capital firm (€80M fund target closing in March 2021), investing in climate ...

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Job Description

Location: Malmö, Sweden

Application closes: Feb 28th, 2021

"This is how it works and who the players are"

The short version

Why: Pale Blue Dot invests in climate tech startups all over Europe and in the US. We need a person running the field of "Insight and Research" to help support the factual part of investment decisions.

What: Create and communicate insights into both "live deals" (rush-jobs) and "thesis areas" (bi-weekly projects within climate tech fields). Brevity and depth are valued so that the material can be used to make decisions.

Who: You are a "written communicator" at heart and see your outputs as supporting, internal work, and not public "media pieces." You find it exciting to search and find information that answers given research questions. You are well versed in communicating and writing in English, and you are candid, fun to work with, and care about climate.

The role

You will write and summarize insights that we are looking into for investments. Your output is supporting investment decisions, so brevity & clarity are as important as finding the facts and summarizing on short notice.

Some project "thesis fields" are more long term (2-3 weeks), and you will manage your own time, and some will be supporting "live deals" (investments the fund is considering) and will be rushed. Both require a lot of reading, research, interviews with experienced/expert people from the field, general data gathering, writing, and documenting the insights and conclusions.

Examples of "thesis field writings" we have done are:

**We’d love to hear from you if… ***

*** =** The qualifications and experiences above are a guide, and we’d still love to hear from candidates with more or less experience, provided the requisite skills can be demonstrated.

Your background

  • We see this role as something more of a craft than a specific education or CV, but we guess you have experience with writing somehow or truly love summarizing things.
  • As you will interact with researchers, founders, and the investment team, you need to handle stressful environments and experience from handling people.

Experience we value **

  • Having worked at an early stage fund or startup with insights, to be able to handle the depth vs. speed issues.
  • Used a range or modern document tools (Google Drive, Notion, etc).
  • International experience and having lived and worked in multiple countries and organizations.

Character traits

  • Attention: You can focus and read or hear between the lines as many things aren't clearly expressed in interviews or reports.
  • Ingest: You are used to handling a lot of information about a field and getting to the core of it quickly. It will require searching, interviewing, and reading.
  • Self-managed: You can manage yourself, have own initiatives, and see what's the next step.
  • Summarize and communicate: You see the value in your output is used, and understand that it won't be publically communicated and often discarded (as we look at many different fields that we end up not investing in).
  • Compassionate and collaborative: You care about people and the planet. You enjoy working with others and get that the best person for the job might be in another time zone and won't share your native language.
  • Can use "modern" communication tools: You are happy to collaborate in Slack, Zoom/Hangouts, and other digital bonanza.
  • A service and product person at heart: You see that the process is like a product, and you want to constantly improve and make it better, but know that if your work isn't read and understood, it has no value.

Trajectory for the role

As the fund grows and team, you might lead the insight and research team or specialize in a few areas - or you might want to move more towards external communication. The role is not planned to become an investment role.

A fair chance

Pale Blue Dot is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe that you should be fit for the role, motivated, and experienced enough, regardless of ethnicity, belief or religion, family structure, sexual orientation or gender identity, or anything else that makes you, you.

Pale Blue Dot background

Pale Blue Dot is a €53M seed-stage venture capital firm (€80M fund target closing in March 2021), investing in climate tech startups that reduce and reverse the climate crisis and help us prepare for a new world. Pale Blue Dot is based in Malmö, Sweden, and invests in early stages, focused in Europe.

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