Senior Scouting Manager

About Antler

Antler is where outlier founders come to go further, faster. The best founders choose Antler for the chance to generate momentum: to build alongside world-class talent, access capital, and work with partners who’ve been founders themselves.

Successful Antler founders will gain a first check and a clear path to scale from pre-seed to Series C. While our global fund provides scale-up capital from Series A onwards to propel the next generation of remarkable founders further. 

With a presence in 25+ countries, we’re the most active investor in AI globally, while also capturing innovation across fintech, healthtech, climate tech, and beyond.

Learn more about our Australian team, here.

The Role

This is a rare opportunity to break into venture capital and work directly with the next generation of Australian founders.

Based in Sydney, you’ll join Antler’s Scouting team (11 people across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane), reporting to the VP of Scouting, Marketing & Operations. You will lead founder sourcing across New South Wales, identifying and building relationships with exceptional early-stage entrepreneurs and bringing the best talent into Antler’s Residency.

You’ll be deeply embedded in the startup ecosystem — meeting founders, assessing talent, and helping shape the pipeline of future Antler-backed companies. Alongside sourcing founders, you’ll contribute to the investment process and help support founders through Residency as they build and launch their companies.

Responsibilities

• Source exceptional founders: Identify and engage the most promising pre-seed founders across New South Wales
• Build founder pipelines: Develop and execute scouting strategies including market mapping, targeted outreach and ecosystem engagement
• Assess founder potential: Review applications and interview founders, looking for grit, resilience and exceptional talent
• Ecosystem presence: Represent Antler at startup events, meetups and conferences to uncover emerging founder talent
• Drive operational excellence: Improve scouting processes, pipeline management and automation to strengthen founder recruitment
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with Marketing on campaigns, partnerships and content that attract top founders
• Support founders: Provide guidance during Residency and contribute to investment discussions around the most promising teams

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience in a tech startup in a commercial role or recruiting for the tech sector or as a founder
• A good understanding of and experience in implementing GTM and 0-1 strategies, with a “hunter” mentality
• “Plugged-in” to the tech/startup community and have an active network
• A confident people person with a curiosity to uncover mission-driven individuals
• Have high EQ and ability to forge trusting relationships quickly
• Sydney based

Nice to have

• Experience with HubSpot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, or similar tools
• Interest in building AI workflows or automations

Why Antler

Antler is a global early-stage VC. In this role, you’ll gain unparalleled exposure to early-stage company building, working closely with founders as they take ideas to venture-backed startups.

You’ll also benefit from:

• The opportunity to work in a rapidly growing global VC platform
• Competitive salary, fund carry and scouting incentives
• Flexible working and autonomy over how you structure your time
• 4 weeks remote working per year, birthday leave and Summer Hours
• A personal learning and development budget
• The chance to build one of the strongest networks in the startup and VC ecosystem