Managing Director of Search Fund

5 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Nova Founders Capital Full time £80,000 - £120,000 per year
Job Description 

Are you an experienced or aspiring Managing Director ? Are you passionate about building companies and searching for your next opportunity to lead a backed start-up or scale-up? And do you want to be part of an ambitious, fast-growing environment with experienced founders and entrepreneurs? Then you might be our next Search Fund Managing Director 

About Us

Nova Founders Capital is a global operational investment group that creates and invests in business models of the future. Nova Founders Capital's management team have started 30+ companies over the last 10 years and have exited companies through sale and IPO, backed by investors such as Goldman Sachs, Alibaba, Peter Thiel and The World Bank.

Our Mission 

On our journey to empower ambitious and extraordinary talents, we have created the opportunity to become a Managing Director  through a Search Fund. Besides investing in and building large-scale fast growing business models, we have created an investment vehicle to invest in the right founders and CEOs to find a business venture they can excel in and support them in their journey to create extraordinary companies. 

What We Offer You

Nova Founders Capital are searching for experienced or aspiring Managing Director for their Search Funds. You will get the unique opportunity to acquire or start new companies to expand our existing portfolio, or become Managing Director of an existing company within our portfolio. 

You will become part of an ambitious network and have a dedicated Board of Directors consisting of experienced founders, board members and CEOs that have started, acquired, built and exited various companies.

You will receive both great upside in your work with a compensation geared mostly towards equity of 10-20% depending on the business, and a base salary of up to 80K GBP.

Your Responsibilities

As Managing Director , you will have the sole responsibility of building and growing your business. Specific tasks vary to the specific stage and company, and will include:

  • Build a world-class organisation
  • Build, lead, develop and motivate an exceptional team 
  • Define and execute strategies to drive results across all functions
  • Recruit the right people and constantly develop the employee
  • Be fully responsible for the P&L and day-to-day operations

What do we expect from you

  • Strong work ethic with a sense of urgency
  • Exceptional drive and desire to be the best at what you do
  • Proactive approach and sense of ownership/responsibility of everything you do
  • A humble approach and share our passion for building companies and developing people
  • Interested in continuous learning and proactively searching for ways to optimise
  • Min. a bachelor or master degree with great results
  • Top tier academics, maybe with an MBA
  • 3-7 years at a top tier consulting firm, investment bank, start up or company

Expected start date

We are hiring on a continuous basis.

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