ARCH Venture Partners has a rich history of creating and managing early-stage breakthrough technology companies in the physical and life sciences to profitable exits. We are looking for a full-time technology & strategy analyst in our Chicago office to play a central role in ARCH Strategic Partnerships (ASP), an ARCH initiative for helping industry leaders collaborate with early-stage scientific innovators.

Our ideal candidate is detail-oriented, a skilled communicator, and comfortable exercising initiative and operating in an entrepreneurial and dynamic environment. Candidates must be knowledgeable about emerging scientific technologies and comfortable with analyzing technologies from a wide range of domains within the physical and life sciences.

This role is ideal for a high-performing person who is early in their career, passionate about emerging technology, intellectually curious, and eager to learn about the commercialization of science, corporate innovation and strategy, technology scouting, and venture capital.

Job Description

The role is primarily focused on developing and maintaining relationships with corporate partners, guiding their technology scouting, corporate venture capital, and open innovation teams in the identification and diligence of new innovations.

You will assist with systematic deal sourcing from universities, maintaining and curating a large database of new technologies and companies. You will manage many contacts across the top universities in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

You will also help develop investment theses in key scientific domains, generate industry-specific analyses, and survey promising new fields of research. You will help coordinate a team of associates and interns contributing to these efforts. Strong analytical, writing, and organizational skills are a necessity.

While your primary focus will be on operating internal systems to source and screen new deals and manage relationships with corporate partners, you will be exposed to a wider range of venture capital activities, including screening, diligence, new venture creation, and portfolio company support.

Responsibilities

• Generating deliverables for the ARCH team and corporate partners, for example decks and whitepapers on research trends

• Supporting events, marketing efforts, and meetings

• Building relationships with strategic corporate partners

• Managing internal software resources, including a database

• Analyzing a wide array of new technologies across the physical and life sciences

• Participating in due diligence processes

Minimum Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a scientific or engineering discipline AND 1-3 years of work experience (candidates with advanced/graduate degrees and no industry experience are also encouraged to apply)

• Strong interest in and comfort with going deep in a wide range of scientific domains

• Interest in physical and life science-focused startups and venture capital

• Skilled at multi-tasking in a fast-paced team environment with quick turnaround

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

• Experience with (or eagerness to learn) Salesforce, database management, and data analytics

• High integrity, strong work ethic, detail-oriented, self-motivated, and collaborative

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Entrepreneurial, innovative, and creative

• Legally eligible to work in the United States

• Live and work in Chicago with occasional travel

ARCH Venture Partners

****ARCH Venture Partners is one of the largest early-stage life sciences venture firms in the U.S. ARCH has co-founded and provided initial investments for more than 300 companies organized around innovations from research universities, national laboratories, corporate research groups, and entrepreneurs. By focusing on leading scientific innovators, ARCH has been at the forefront of investing in major areas of innovation in the life sciences and physical sciences, and has helped to catalyze revolutionary advances in genomics, nanotechnology, industrial biotechnology, and major disease treatments. ARCH has raised twelve primary funds with combined committed capital at the time raised of approximately $9.7 billion. ARCH Venture Partners is an equal opportunity employer. For more information, please visitwww.archventure.com.