\nDo your best work here.\nHopelab is a transformative social innovation lab and impact investor working to support the mental well-being of adolescents ages 10-25, especially BIPOC and LGBTQ+ young people. Through funding, collaborations, and intergenerational partnerships, Hopelab works at the intersection of tech and mental health alongside entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and young change-makers to create systems change and build a thriving future for underserved young people.\n\n\nThe Position: Principal Investor\nThe Principal Investor will be a core member of the Hopelab Ventures team. As a social impact investor, Hopelab Ventures invests in companies that support the mental health and well-being of adolescents (ages 10-25), particularly BIPOC and LGBTQ+ youth. We back founders with lived experience related to the identities and mental health topics it supports, as we believe those founders are uniquely equipped to develop effective solutions. Hopelab Ventures’ investment approach combines early-stage capital with expertise in research, design, and payment models to support the development and adoption of more efficacious, more diverse, and more accessible mental health and well-being solutions for young people at scale.\n\n\nThe Principal Investor supports Hopelab’s mission by sourcing and evaluating new impact investment opportunities, performing due diligence and market research, and supporting existing portfolio companies. This role works closely with leaders at exciting health and well-being ventures and has direct exposure to the early stage venture capital ecosystem.\n\n\n\nA successful Principal Investor does the following:\n* Drives sourcing of new investment opportunities, manages the investment pipeline, and evaluates new business ideas\n* Leads due diligence and deal execution efforts for potential investments (e.g., assesses business plans, conducts market scans and competitive analyses, builds financial models, prepares investment memos), makes recommendations to Head of Investments about which deals to move forward to Investment Committee\n* Builds market landscapes, evaluates industry trends and develops perspectives on emerging investment themes\n* Supports investees, facilitates portfolio engagement efforts and post-close performance management, and leads collection and analysis of impact and financial metrics across investment portfolio\n* Leverages personal skills and networks to assist portfolio companies wherever possible \n* Acts as primary point of contact for some organizations in the portfolio, engaging management team, board, and co-investors as needed\n* Represents Hopelab on portfolio company boards as an observer\n* Develops and maintains awareness of other funders and operators working in the field of teen/young adult mental wellbeing \n* Communicates and collaborates both internally and externally to advance Hopelab’s strategy and mission, and support on a variety of events and projects, as needed\n* Acts as a representative of Hopelab in external conversations and events, and builds and maintains relationships as appropriate, particularly with peer levels across key constituents\n* Elevates stories (process, outcome, partners, etc.) for potential external sharing. Collaborate with Strategic Comms on the development of the talking points and/or collateral\n\n\n\nRequired Education, Experience, and Skills\n* 8+ years of professional experience, including at least 2 years conducting company evaluation and financial analyses at an investment bank, management consulting firm, venture capital fund, private equity fund, or corporate investment function. We will also consider those with relevant experience as operators, i.e., founders or leaders of healthcare or technology companies\n* Advanced degree in a related field (e.g. business, health, or science) preferred, not required\n* Previous experience in digital health, mental health, or wellbeing sectors\n* Personal network of relevant stakeholders to Hopelab, including potential founders, co-investors, and/or customers for portfolio companies\n* Familiarity with venture capital funding structures (e.g., SAFEs, convertible notes, priced rounds)\n* Passion for social impact for underinvested populations\n* Strategic thinker with outstanding analytical skills\n* High-energy and independent self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit and comfort with ambiguity\n* Excellent written and oral communication skills\n* Intellectual curiosity about and/or direct experience working in the mental health sector\n* Applicants must reside within and be currently authorized to work in the United States\n\n\n\n\n\nIs this you? Please apply with a resume and a brief cover letter describing how you're a match for this role. Applications are due by EOD Sunday Mar 3, 2024.\n\n\nNote: To maintain an equitable hiring process, we do not offer informational conversations outside of the interview process. Please refrain from contacting Hopelab staff about this opportunity.\n\n\nIn-Person and Travel Expectations\nThis role requires some in-person time to best support collaboration with our internal team and partnership development. The office and travel expectations are approximately as follows:\nDomestic travel 5-6 times per year for partnerships, conferences, and portfolio company board meetings\nQuarterly week-long retreats in SF Bay Area\n\n\nCompensation and Benefits\nHopelab’s compensation is tied to local job market data, so will differ by location. Here are some sample salaries for this role, commensurate with training and experience:\nSF Bay Area/NYC: Starting salary ($178,526 to $200,842). Full salary range ($178,526 to $223,158).\nLos Angeles: Starting salary ($169,600 to $190,800). Full salary range ($169,600 to $212,000).\nSeattle/DC: Starting salary ($160,674 to $180,758). Full salary range ($160,674 to $200,842).\nDenver/Chicago: Starting salary ($151,747 to $170,716). Full salary range ($151,747 to $189,684).\nMiami/Portland Oregon: Starting salary ($142,821 to $160,674). Full salary range ($142,821 to $178,526).\n\n\nHopelab provides a generous benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision; phone and internet stipends; wellness programs, including 8 therapy and 8 coaching sessions a year for you and dependents; paid time off; 401K contributions exceeding industry standards; all this, plus the opportunity to work with amazing colleagues to create a more equitable world for young people.\n\n\nCommitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion\nHopelab is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse staff and encourages people from underrepresented groups to apply. Hopelab is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, ancestry, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Employment offers will be contingent on a background check that is limited in scope and compliant with best practices for Fair Chance Hiring. All inquiries are held in strict confidence.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Consulting and Non Tech jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $76,250/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote

\nWho you are\n\nYou are looking for a challenging and rewarding experience. You are inspired by our vision and the opportunity to define a new category in an incredibly fast-growing market. You are excited to learn, grow and collaborate so we can achieve our mission of creating opportunity for all through mobility.\n\nAt HopSkipDrive, we know that challenges require different approaches, unique perspectives and new ways of thinking.  We are building a team of creative problem-solvers from many different backgrounds.You’re a passionate team builder enthusiastic about finding, engaging and scaling a high performing distributed team. You’ll find energy telling HopSkipDrive’s story to diverse candidates across functions and will thoughtfully assess their backgrounds and expertise to match them with the right role on our team.\n\nYour role \n\nAs the Director of Specialty Transportation at HopSkipDrive, you will report directly to our SVP of Growth and be the business owner of a critical, new category for our business. School districts arrange transportation for hundreds of thousands of students everyday who require highly specialized vehicles, equipment or supports.  This includes many students with disabilities who require a wheelchair lift-equipped vehicle, a safety vest or second adult in the car,  early childhood students who require a car seat, and others students who are most efficiently routed on a 6-12 passenger van.    \n\nYou will establish this new vertical as an essential part of our care-based  mobility business, bringing the extraordinary level of safety, reliability and service our clients have come to expect from HopSkipDrive to their most complex needs.\n\nWhat you'll do\n\nStrategic leadership\n\n\n* Be the business owner of the specialty transportation vertical, responsible for its growth, success and financial contribution to the company\n\n* Become expert on how school districts solve specialty transportation challenges today - who does what, what works, what doesn’t, etc.\n\n* Spend time with our customers, understand their motivations, fears, desires, etc, and bring the voice of the customer to a wide range of internal discussions \n\n* Map, size and constantly reassess the market as well as the competitive landscape and how we position within it\n\n* Set strategic direction, constantly formulating and reformulating what we need to do and in what order to win the vertical \n\n* Develop and manage strategic partnerships, including with transportation providers \n\n* Lead the discovery and evolution of product-market-sales fit for new and existing products \n\n* Partner with our sales and marketing teams to develop and continuously iterate on go-to-market strategy\n\n\n\n\nDrive internal execution\n\n\n* Work closely with a large and diverse group of cross-functional partners (across product, sales, marketing legal, trust & safety, support and supply departments) and drive alignment on vision, strategy and tactics \n\n* Establish pilots with clear learning agendas and success criteria and drive execution to ensure delivery on objectives  \n\n* Partner with our product and operational teams to develop and continuously iterate on the product vision and roadmap \n\n\n\n\n\n* Support the sales team in growing our customer base, directly participating in the sales cycle for strategic accounts\n\n* Be the internal champion of the business; regularly communicate vision, strategy, and status a clear and compelling way to internal and external stakeholders  \n\n\n\n\nWhat you’ll bring\n\nAn Entrepreneur\n\n\n* No problem too big, no task too small.  Equally comfortable cold calling a 55+ living community as sitting down with a county commissioner as presenting an investment case to executives.  \n\n* Comfort with ambiguity.  Doesn’t need to be handed a playbook to win the game.  Will start with first principles and navigate fluidly to an objective.   Independent and self-starting.   \n\n* Divergent and strategic thinker.  Sees a problem from multiple angles, generates new ideas, balance of “what if…” and grounded in reality, nose for the wedge. \n\n* Scrappy.   One door gets slammed, find another.  \n\n\n\n\nA Strong Communicator\n\n\n* Communicates effectively with a wide range of external and internal stakeholders from diverse backgrounds \n\n* Produces a wide range of high-quality strategic assets with clear, crisp and compelling prose and visuals (PPT, Word, Google Suite, etc.)\n\n* Confidently represents HopSkipDrive with clients, potential clients and ecosystem players\n\n\n\n\nA Seasoned Cross-Functional Leader \n\n\n* Expertise using  informal influence rather than positional authority to drive aligned action with urgency through a range of cross-functional partners  \n\n* Highly skilled initiative owner.  Wraps arms around complex and loosely defined business problems, backwards plans to success, defines roles, responsibilities and timelines, and ensures a large group delivers on commitments    \n\n\n\n\nA Skilled and Driven Professional\n\n\n* A+ player looking to build a challenging and rewarding career\n\n* 7-10+ years experience driving superior results in highly analytical and strategic roles within fast-paced business environments.\n\n* Intermediate to advanced Excel/Sheets and PowerPoint/Slides required\n\n* Intellectual curiosity and a love of learning\n\n* Highly organized and detail-oriented; ability to manage a wide range of responsibilities and switch quickly between divergent workflows \n\n\n\n\nNice to have/Preferred:\n\n\n* Existing network and expertise in some aspect of the specialty transportation space (e.g. NEMT, brokerage models, youth with disabilities, mobility, etc.)  \n\n* Specific expertise in GTM strategy - market sizing, TAM/SAM/SOM, customer segmentation, ICP, personas, positioning, delivery channels, financial modeling, etc.  \n\n\n\n\n** This role will be fully remote from a state where we do business AZ, CA, CO, FL, IL, KS, MD, WI, OK, UT, TN, NC, SC, NV, NJ, NY, OR, TX, VA, WA, MO, MI**\n\nWhat you will get\n\nWe want you to be an owner in our company and share in executing our vision, so every full-time employee has equity.  In addition, we offer  flexible vacation, medical, dental, vision and life insurance, 401(k), FSA, and an opportunity to work for a uniquely positioned, VC-backed company in a hugely attractive space with significant upside potential. HopSkipDrive is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this role is $130,000-150,000. This compensation will ultimately be in line with the location in which the position is filled. Final compensation for this role will be determined by several factors such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skill set, certifications, and specific work location. The total compensation package for this role also includes equity stock options. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Marketing and Sales jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nDenver, Colorado, United States