Position: Venture Development Lead
Company: Velas
Experience required: 2y
English level: fluent

This is an opportunity to work with a broad range of start-ups in the FinTech / Blockchain sector, whilst implementing key venture development and growth principles. The ideal candidate will have a strong commercial skillset, great interpersonal skills, and demonstrated capability of working in innovation and/or with start-ups to achieve successful commercial exploitation.

**Responsibilities:**
- Provide support to entrepreneurs across ideation, acceleration, investment and scale-up stage.
- Actively review the project’s progress, identify blockers, and work with minimal oversight to develop solutions to resolve any issues in a timely manner
- Strong project management skills; ability to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines simultaneously
- Escalate execution bottlenecks to relevant stakeholders to ensure projects remain on-track
- Collaborate with external stakeholders (investees) to identify the business and technical requirements and define deliverables for each team
- Maintain accountability; deliver successful outcomes with measurable results
- Manage project data, including ensuring the information in our CRM and internal file systems is accurate and up to date;
- Communicate with assigned project teams and constantly keep track of their status;
- Guide the proposal development process, including drafting initial proposals and coordinating input for estimates;
- Report internally on projects engagement activities;
- Report internally on projects development status;
 
**Required Skills & Experience:**
- Fluent English
- 2+ years of relevant experience in investment research, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, consulting, crypto, fintech, or another related field
- Excellent oral and written communication, including presentation skills
- This role does not require you to be an expert in crypto, but a passion for crypto and a desire to be a part of a small team with an outsized impact are mandatory
- An ability to articulate complex topics in a concise and effective manner
- Solid quantitative and qualitative analytical skills
- Very high attention to detail with emphasis on quality