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  • Pathlight Ventures

    Pathlight Ventures - Associate

    Full Time

    New York

    Skills


    Job Description

    đź§  About Us

    We’re an early-stage venture firm backing the most ambitious founders building companies that reshape industries. Our focus is on sourcing overlooked opportunities early and helping founders build with conviction and momentum.

    👀 Who We’re Looking For

    This role will engage across all functions of the firm as a full stack investor! This is a high-context, high-agency role: you’ll be on the front lines of identifying potential founders, building thesis-driven relationships, and shaping how we go to market as a firm.

    This is not a passive, spreadsheet-heavy role. You’ll thrive here if you’re a natural connector, intellectually competitive, and energized by chasing great people and ideas.

    🧬 Traits That Tend to Thrive Here

    • Innate curiosity. You’re the person friends go to for “what’s interesting” in tech. You’re naturally curious, commercially minded, and pick up on pattern breaks early.
    • Operator intuition. You’ve shipped products, brought something to market, or worked closely with founders—whether in product, venture, GTM, engineering, etc.
    • Social gravity. You have a strong, informal network - built through school, work, or community - that founders and operators actually want to join.
    • Field-forward. You like being in motion - helping host founder dinners, building relationships 1:1, making intros that matter.

    đź›  Example Backgrounds (not requirements)

    • You were a product manager, business oriented engineer, or early growth hire at an AI startup.
    • You did a stint in consulting, PE, or an accelerator and got obsessed with early stage venture.
    • You’ve run founder community dinners, scouted for a fund, or published your own thoughts. 

    🚀 What You’ll Do

    • Sourcing. Build and execute creative outbound campaigns to surface exceptional founders early.
    • Thesis development. Collaborate on spaces we’re excited about, help craft POVs, and engage early builders.
    • Founder engagement. Be a first call + sounding board to founders and potential founders. . 
    • Network mapping. Help the firm build further connectivity into talent-rich communities.

    ✨ You’ll Stand Out If…

    • You’ve taken initiative to get close to venture already - scouting, angel investing, working at a startup, etc.
    • You move fast, think clearly, and love people with ambition.
    • You know how to “get context loaded” without being handheld.
    • You believe the best investing is a mix of rigor, taste, and common business sense.

    🙌 What We Offer

    • A fast-learning curve into early-stage investing
    • Deep exposure to founders, operators, and deals
    • Mentorship, context, and agency to run with your own ideas

    About the company

    Pathlight Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that takes a thematic driven approach towards investing in early-stage founders and companies across enterprise software, fintech + payments, infrastructure, applied AI, and vertical SaaS.


    The team has scaled multiple companies from $0 to $100M+ in revenue at companies such as Plaid, Robinhood, Ramp, Alloy, and more.