We're hiring an Investment Manager!

Samaipata is hiring an Investment Manager to join the Investment team in Madrid. The primary job of the Investment Manager is to source investment opportunities that will define the portfolio of Samaipata III – our latest fund launched in March.

Who we are

Samaipata is a pan-European venture capital fund. We lead early-stage rounds in tech companies with network effects. Founded in 2016, Samaipata has deployed over €100M into European startups across Southern Europe, France, the UK and Germany.

We are a small, opinionated team of seasoned entrepreneurs and investors with a history of successful exits.

What you will do

As Investment Manager you will compete to find, win and execute the deals that define our next fund. Concretely:

• Sourcing and origination. You will be the relentless front edge of our deal flow — at events, in founder communities, in DMs, on the phone. You will hunt for the founders we should know before anyone else does. Expect to run hundreds of meetings in your first six months.
• Diligence and execution. You will lead first-pass diligence on the opportunities you bring in, push the best through our investment process, and stand alongside partners in the deals we execute, competing against some of the strongest VCs in Europe.
• Portfolio exposure. You will sit close to our portfolio founders through governance and our Founder Success platform, starting a journey to become a full-stack investor.
• Network building. You will build the relationships — with founders, operators, co-investors — that compound into our edge over the next decade.

What are we looking for

Primarily, three things:

1. Relentless drive. You generate serendipity by sheer iteration. You show up at the random founder breakfast, you end up "always in the room", and a year later there are deals alive in our pipeline that exist only because you would not stop.
2. Applied intellectual curiosity. You bring ideas to the table unprompted — what you read, watched, ran into over the weekend — and the ideas are about technology, business models and investment. You go down rabbit holes and come back with something useful.
3. AI-fluency coupled with extreme ownership. You seek AI leverage everywhere and know how to orchestrate efficient workflows across knowledge and analytical work. However, you conduct yourself with extreme ownership of your work and never let AI speak for you.
4. Passion and integrity. Talking to builders and analysing businesses energises you. You uphold yourself to very high standards.

What correlates in our view:

• ~5–8 years of work experience in a demanding environment. Any background in the realms of technology, business and finance could be a fit if it taught you first-principled thinking, analytical rigor and soft skills. Years are a proxy; trajectory matters more.
• Genuine, provable interest in technology and venture. Either you've worked adjacent to it long enough that the proof is in your past (sectors you covered, deals you watched, founders you know) or you can show us the proof directly (something you've written, built, invested in, or obsessed over).
• A strong academic track record in business and/or STEM. An engineering or technical background is a plus.
• Outstanding communication in English and Spanish. Additional European languages (French, German) are a plus.
• Madrid-based, or able to relocate immediately. A network in Barcelona and/or other key European tech hubs is a plus.

What we have to offer

• A seat on the investment team of one of Europe's most ambitious early-stage funds, with ample room to grow with and within the firm.
• Competitive cash compensation (fixed and variable), plus carried interest from your first deal.
• A small, hungry, international team of high-performers, all contributing to sharpening how we think and how we work.
• An in-person first culture in our Madrid HQ with built in flexibility and real autonomy.
• A generous token budget if you can drive RoI.

How to apply

Fill the application form below as soon as possible. The process is already underway.

Apply here

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