Portfolio Ops Summer Associate '24
Boston, MA
Portfolio Operations /
Intern /
On-site
About M33
Change the healthcare and software landscape and come join our fast-growing venture and growth-stage investment firm. Founded by veterans of renowned investment firms with considerable operational experience, our Boston-based firm seeks to invest in high-potential companies in the software, healthcare, and services sectors throughout North America. With over $750M under management, the M33 Growth team fuels a fast-growing venture and growth-stage strategy in which we partner with founders and CEOs who have successfully bootstrapped their companies to strong growth and are positioned to rapidly scale their companies and break through as market leaders. We tap into our deep experience as operators and investors to help our companies achieve their growth potential by building sales and marketing engines, supplementing teams with top talent, and executing complementary acquisitions.
The Role
We are currently recruiting a Summer Associate for our Portfolio Operations team. In this role, you will work hand-in-hand with portfolio company executives and our team of seasoned growth-stage operators, and M33 investors to plan and execute value-creation initiatives. The areas in which we focus these initiatives includes: Go-to-Market, Talent, M&A, and Finance. This opportunity is open to candidates who will be completing their first year of business school at the time the internship begins.
Successful Summer Associates may be extended the opportunity to join M33 or one of our portfolio companies post-graduation. We have a proven track record of developing Senior Associates into senior Portfolio Operations leaders and growth-stage executives.
Our goal is to build a team with complementary skill sets from different backgrounds, so there is no single ideal profile for this role. Instead, we value the underlying traits and motivations listed below.
Key responsibilities
- Designing and implementing department-level KPIs and reporting
- Collaborating with portfolio executives to drive strategic sales and marketing initiatives (buyer persona mapping, sales process development, CRM and marketing automation best practices, competitive battlecards, pricing, etc.)
- Managing recruiters and contributing to interview processes for key portfolio company C- and VP level hires
- Management of third-party partners to accelerate value creation initiatives
- In partnership with the M33 deal team, prioritizing adjacencies for acquisition targeting and integrating acquisitions made
- Building portfolio-level resources and processes to help M33 amplify and add efficiency to its portfolio operations efforts
Profile
- Impeccable work ethic and integrity
- At least 3 years of work experience that includes investing, investment banking, management consulting, or operating roles in sales, business development, or strategy
- Magnetic communicator: Ability to win hearts and minds while driving your agenda
- Overachiever by nature: Ambitious, history of top-level performance through hard work and grit
- Insatiable desire to learn and improve: Continuously working to develop skills. Coachable, good listener, asks great questions
- Business-oriented critical thinker: Good business instincts. When given an open-ended question, can structure an analysis to answer it. Fact/data-driven. Presents a point of view and supporting evidence effectively in writing/slides
- Focus: Executes workplans efficiently without chasing shiny objects. Deals well with ambiguity
- Nose for value: Independently identifies and pursues areas of opportunity for value creation
- Foundation in our language: Fluent in Excel, finance, data, SaaS business models
What To Expect
Our ten-to-twelve-week program includes orientation, access to all of the M33 team, and custom programming created to provide you with a comprehensive overview of the growth equity business. You'll work onsite with our experienced team making real contributions to top priority initiatives.
EEO Statement
M33 is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee based on the basis of race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, alienage or citizenship status, ancestry, nationality, national origin, marital or domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, sex, pregnancy, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, M33 will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. We highly encourage diverse candidates to apply.
We are committed to creating an inclusive work environment that respects all people for their unique skills, backgrounds, and professional experiences. We strive to hire qualified, diverse candidates, and we will provide reasonable accommodations for known disabilities.
Interested?
If the description above sounds like you, we'd love to meet you.
