**About us**:
Antler, globally, in over three years of operating, has grown to have a presence in 23 cities around the world, including offices in most major startup ecosystems, such as New York, Berlin, London, Singapore and Sydney and Melbourne here in Australia.
In Australia, we are coming up to our fourth birthday and are making more early-stage bets than anyone else in the country. To date, we have welcomed over 700 founders to our platform and have an active portfolio of over 80 companies.
We are founder-first and awesomely ambitious in all our endeavours. We are on a mission to fundamentally improve the world by enabling and investing in the world's most exceptional people. We help to build complementary co-founder teams, supported by deep business model validation and we provide a global platform for quicker scaling, due diligence and problem-solving. To date, Antler globally has invested in and helped build over 350 companies, 40% of which have at least one female co-founder.
Antler is Australia's only truly global VC platform, enabling exceptional people and teams to build the defining companies of tomorrow. We support founders from the building phase through to series C, providing an unparalleled capital pathway with 80% of our companies raising third party capital within twelve months of our initial investment. Our portfolio companies are also supported by a global network of 500 experts in technology, entrepreneurship, business and academia, and the world's fastest growing community of founders, with 500+ new members every year.
**About the role**:
Our headcount across Sydney and Melbourne has been steadily growing. We are currently almost 20 strong and looking to add a new superpower to the team. We are on the hunt for a **Community Manager** (aka Founder Whisperer and ecosystem grower) to both grow our presence in the Melbourne early stage ecosystem and enable our Antler founder communities to thrive. In this role you will:
Grow our presence in the Melbourne early stage ecosystem
- Be the face of Antler in the Melbourne startup/tech ecosystem
- Attend community events
- Secure panellist opportunities
- Promote Antler, our partners, and early stage opportunities on social media platforms
- Secure Melbourne partnership opportunities that will enhance the Antler platform and/or opportunities for our founders
Enable our Antler founder community to thrive
- Ownership of Antler's Pre-Launch Melbourne based founder community. These founders are forming teams, validating ideas and under Antler's due diligence as they work towards pitching for funding. This will involve
- Creating a positive and constructive environment where founders can thrive
- Hosting office hours to support their founder journey to investment
- Organising various founder activities to foster community for our Melbourne based founders
- Being the "point person" for our Melbourne based events
- Responding to founder questions
- Ownership of Antler's portfolio community (investees)
- Working alongside the Portfolio function to execute on its community strategy
- Support in event conception and execution
- Support in communication delivery
- Ideate on new initiatives to foster community for our portfolio companies to promote support and growth
- Ownership of Antler's wider community of founders
- Create a community from our non-invested in founders to secure a close connection with so, if suitable, in the future they will return to pitch for Antler's investment
- Foster and promote connection opportunities from knowledge sharing to job opportunities
- Ideate on new ways to provide benefit and support to our founders on both a local and global level
We're hiring for this role in Melbourne only. The role reports to Antler's Program/Investment Director.
**About you**:
**Founder first**
You love and believe in people. You know that the founding team is the heart of a startup and is ultimately responsible for an early-stage company's success.
**Empathy**
You lead with empathy. We operate in a high stakes environment so thanks to your empathic nature you listen to understand, calm people when needed, and reply with constructive advice.
**Communication**
You believe in being open and honest. You are a clean and concise communicator able to deliver and deliver tough messages with clarity and empathy.
**Team player**
We have a one team approach. We win together and take risks, acknowledging this means backing and recognising each other's efforts and offering support when needed.
**What about us? We are awesomely ambitious. If you had been a part of our team for the last 3 years you would have**:
- Raised a local AU$46m fund
- Invested in over 90 companies, over 38% of which have a female co-founder with over 30 nationalities represented.
- Put on the largest Demo Day in Australian history at Sydney Town Hall with 1.2K viewers.
- Launched Antler Academy, a global edtech business helping aspiring entrepreneurs across the world w