Associate

Work Location: Remote. Candidates located in New York or San Francisco metropolitan areas preferred.

Who we are: 

Purpose Venture Group (PVG) is a rapidly growing consulting firm that partners exclusively with venture-backed startups, market leaders and large nonprofits focused on advancing the health of our climate. We collaborate with our climate-centered clients to design and deliver new products and ventures, develop compelling financial plans and build businesses that deliver both profit and impact.

We focus on three sectors—financial services, built environment and mobility— where we have decades of collective experience as investors, builders and operators.  

About the Role:

Purpose Venture Group is hiring an Associate who will make an immediate impact on the firm’s client work, help build the firm’s capabilities and contribute to the thriving, inclusive and collaborative culture that makes PVG special. This is an individual-contributor position and a highly visible, externally-facing role. Associates need to be comfortable engaging with clients in a professional and respectful manner and taking a leadership role in driving team problem-solving.

Associates are core to PVG’s work. They have a broad range of responsibilities working across PVG clients and initiatives, ranging from market research, site visits, quantitative analyses, strategy development, modeling and the development of deliverables that summarize the firm’s findings and recommendations. 

Depending on client needs, this role may involve moderate amounts of business travel, although much of our project work is done virtually.

Key responsibilities include:

• Analyses and Deliverables Creation: You will conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses of market opportunities and potential new business models in service of developing a view of the highest-leverage opportunities for a given product or initiative. On your own or in collaboration with a team lead, you will create decks, memos and other client-facing content that communicate PVG’s analysis in compelling and impactful ways.

• Research, Data Analytics and Visualization: You will manage an array of research projects related to client deliverables and PVG initiatives. These include conducting client and expert interviews, market landscape surveys, competitive landscape analysis, energy and climate policy audits and public policy reviews. We are looking for someone who is excellent at synthesizing and distilling information from a broad array of sources into actionable insights. 

• Financial Modeling: We believe understanding the unit economics of products and the financial health of organizations that build those products is a critical step in solving the problems that we want to address. You will coordinate with company leadership and management to build FP&A financial models and investor models that accurately capture the financial aspects of operating budgets, core and ancillary business lines and product development, enabling planning and decision making including internal investment decisions.

• Project and Client Management: With limited guidance, you will be responsible for day-to-day project management and execute an array of client-related tasks. You will suggest ways to address client needs and look for new ways to shape client success. 

Requirements

Who you are:

You want to apply your skills and passion to building businesses and solutions that have a positive climate and societal impact, at a firm whose only focus is these opportunities. You are someone that is looking to solve some of the world’s biggest problems and understand the work we are doing requires a passion and commitment to the mission. Our Company values resonate with you (Optimism, Integrity, Building, Community, Joy).

You have: 

• a minimum of two years of work experience with at least one of those years in strategy consulting, investment banking, investment management, or a business or strategy-oriented role within a climate-focused organization
• excellent analytical skills, with the ability to gather qualitative and quantitative data, develop key and actionable insights, and make and communicate well-reasoned recommendations
• excellent listening, written, presentation, verbal reasoning and communication skills
• the ability to evaluate and manage the interests of multiple stakeholders in order to come to reasoned, “win-win” solutions
• a proactive approach to work that allows you to identify and solve problems (often complicated, multivariate and with limited information available) for our clients, seeking guidance from managers as necessary
• when appropriate, you can challenge the status quo with effective communication 
• compassion that allows you to build relationships across the organization and build client relationships
• flexibility and work-planning skills to support multiple projects at the same time—across PVG client subject matter areas—while, delivering on time, consistent and high-quality results

Who you are not:

System change takes time and results take action and hard work. Building and deploying climate solutions at scale will take stamina and grit and we are here for the long haul. If you don't really, really care about climate change and finding solutions that work for our planet and its people, PVG is not the place for you.

Benefits

Compensation for this role has a base salary ranging from $100,000-115,000. The position is eligible for annual firm and individual performance bonuses as well as long-term incentive equity in the firm. This is the pay range PVG believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position. 

PVG offers a competitive and generous package, including but not limited to:

• Unlimited PTO (that you are strongly encouraged to use)

• 17.5 Paid Holidays (19.5 in election years)

• Company paid medical, vision and dental for employees and qualified dependents
• Company paid short-term disability, long-term disability and life insurance
• 12-weeks of paid parental leave for birth, adoption and fostering
• A 401(k) with a firm match of up to 4% of compensation
• Winter break at the end of December
• Learning and Development Program
• One-time work from home stipend

Application Process:

We encourage you to apply, even if you don’t hit every experience listed. We value work experience, lived experience and different perspectives. Diversity and inclusion are core to what we do and who we are. PVG is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to an equitable, transparent and accessible recruitment process, if you need reasonable accommodations during the application or interview process, please reach out to Tammy Falco, Senior Manager, People and Operations at tammy @purposeventure.co. We will also provide reasonable working accommodations.

We do not use AI when reviewing applications. We find value in team members reviewing resumes and applications. This might make our process longer than most but people are the most important part of PVG. More information on our process will be provided once a completed application is received.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the application process will close on 5/24/2024. First interviews will start on 5/28/2024.

A typical candidate experience is outlined below and our goal is to have a 60 day process from time of application. 

Additional Information:

PVG is committed to a fair and transparent compensation and promotion process. 

Our compensation philosophy is based on the following principles:

• Ensure that all PVG employees feel fairly valued and compensated 
• Attract, motivate and retain top-tier talent who share our goals and values
• Support talent who meet and exceed our strategic mission and business objectives
• Stay competitive in the market while being consistent with our values and beliefs 
• Provide accessible, transparent compensation information to all PVG employees