Venture Capital Analyst

The VC Analyst role is embedded alongside the Executive Director and Associate, driving deal execution across investment memos, diligence, pitch preparation, and investor communications. A secondary responsibility of the role is dedicated to the full ownership of a defined set of back-office functions, complemented by ad hoc support to help resolve bottlenecks as needed. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate closely with the Executive Director and Associate of VC to construct, refine, and iterate on investment decks and presentation materials, tailoring content and narrative for internal review, investment committee discussions, and limited partner audiences.  
• Conduct rigorous due diligence on prospective investments by assisting in market research, benchmarking comparable companies, performing reference checks, and thoroughly reviewing data rooms to validate investment theses.  
• Draft, edit, and polish investor updates, quarterly and annual reports, and other limited partner communications, translating portfolio and fund performance into clear, compelling narratives.  
• Take full, end-to-end ownership of entity formation and maintenance, including opening new entities, establishing corresponding bank accounts, and keeping the entity organizational chart accurate and current as the fund's structure evolves.  
• Aggregate and assemble offering documents including the preparation of MW templatized documents and creation/population/management of virtual data rooms (VDRs).  
• Manage all third-party portal access ensuring investors and internal stakeholders have timely and accurate access to the information they need.  
• Facilitate the dissemination of offering documents to investors and other relevant stakeholders, stepping in as needed to keep this process moving without delay.  
• Maintain and continuously update the investor tracker and investor distribution lists, while assisting in disseminating pertinent LP communications (distribution notices, deal closures, investor updates, etc.). 
• Serve as ad hoc resource for the Operations team more broadly, ready to step in and resolve bottlenecks across any of the functions above. 

Featured Benefits:

• Medical, vision and dental insurance
• 401(k) plan + match
• Stock market holidays + PTO
• Other fringe benefits as are made available to other similarly situated employees

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Manhattan West is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. Manhattan West is committed to hiring practices that are free from unlawful discrimination. Manhattan West strictly prohibits and does not tolerate unlawful discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons, including interns, by co-workers, supervisors, managers, or third parties on the basis of a person’s race, color, age (40 or older), religious creed, religious belief, observance, and practice, dress or grooming practices, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition including any cancer-related physical or mental health impairment from a diagnosis, record, or history of cancer, a genetic characteristic genetic information including information about an individual’s genetic tests, family members’ genetic tests, family members’ diseases or disorders, an individual’s or family member’s receipt of, or request for, genetic services, participation by an individual or their family member in clinical research that includes genetic services, marital status, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, breast feeding, medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breast feeding, gender, gender expression, meaning a person’s gender-related appearance or behavior, the perception of such appearance or behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s sex at birth, gender identity, meaning a person’s internal understanding of their gender, or the perception of a person’s gender identity, which may include male, female, a combination of male and female, neither male or female, a gender different from the person’s sex assigned at birth, or transgender, sexual orientation including heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, military or veteran status, including past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.