Managing Director CVX Ventures Finland

Job Description - Managing Director CVX Ventures Finland

Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where you gain a tremendous amount of strategic and operational responsibility? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with young, motivated, and extremely driven people? And curious or passionate about venture capital? If so, you might be our new Managing Director in Finland.

Your Mission

We are looking for an exceptional Managing Director to build and lead our Finnish division in Helsinki. As the first person on ground, this is a hands-on role where your initial focus will be on establishing and maintaining a robust sales pipeline, ensuring accurate forecasting and timely deal closure. You are highly driven, resilient and with a natural ability to build trust and connection with people. 

Our Mission

CVX is one of Europe's fastest-growing venture investors and is executing on our path to becoming Europe’s largest venture investor by providing high-growth companies with capital, knowledge, and network.

We are driven by our belief that the best investors are often those that provide founders with the right knowledge, experience, and network for the specific stage and industry. 

CVX always invests with and through the best angels for the particular founder. Today, we have over 600 angel investor partners in CVX that invest in and support companies they can add a value-adding difference to.

CVX currently consists of 20 ambitious and talented individuals in Copenhagen, London, Oslo, Stockholm and now in Helsinki.

What You Will Do

• Define and execute your strategy and continuously adjust
• Lead the Finnish expansion including potential acquisitions
• Be responsible for the Finnish profit & loss and overall operations
• Be responsible for rapidly building a large and value adding pool of partners
• Hire, develop and lead a top notch team of 10-15 people across sales, board management, event & members, and investments 
• Find and attract the best investment cases
• Lead end-to-end investment deals from deal sourcing to investment
• Represent CVX at events, gatherings, conferences, etc     
• Report into the CEO.

What We Expect From You

• High work ethic with a strong sense of urgency             
• Unusually strong drive and desire to be the best at what you do
• 5+ years of experience ideally in venture capital, high-growth startups or fast-paced environments
• Proactive approach and take ownership of everything you do
• Deep interest in the venture capital and start-up space, with a passion for analyzing and investing in companies     
• People-oriented with the ability to bring people together
• Ability to communicate effectively with individuals at management and board level
• Ability to win the trust of business leaders 
• Outstanding analytical and structured problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated success in achieving and exceeding revenue targets
• Natural ability to sell and work with sales on a strategic as well as an operative level
• Strong leadership skills and we ideally see that you have led and managed teams in the past
• Fluency in Finnish and English
• Preferably, a network in the Finnish start-up ecosystem.

What We Offer You

As our Managing Director you will embark on a journey focused on developing your person, career and CVX as a company along with a group of driven and ambitious peers. In this role, you will develop your leadership skills through projects and coaching in the Danish and Finnish venture environment.

• A dynamic and exciting work environment with ambitious and talented peers
• A culture of continuous learning and development
• Direct impact on the success of CVX and the portfolio companies
• Coaching and development opportunities
• A mix of base salary and upside depending on results.

Start Date

As soon as possible.