Come join Pear as our Director of Accelerator Operations!

We’re looking for a Director of Accelerator Operations to grow our renowned early-stage Accelerator. As the Director of Accelerator Operations, you’ll oversee the program from company selection to Demo Day.

We’re looking to onboard a full-time Director before our upcoming Winter Accelerator in 2022.

In order to cultivate a more inclusive venture ecosystem, it’s important that funds like us continue to post open roles publicly. We are committed to building a diverse team internally, across our portfolio, and within the other Pear programs.

Pear Accelerator guides early-stage founders towards building category-defining companies

Pear VC is a leading early stage fund based in Palo Alto and San Francisco. We’ve partnered at the seed stage with world changing startups now worth over $100 billion, including Doordash, Gusto, Branch, Vanta, and Guardant Health.

The Pear Accelerator is a three-month long bootcamp culminating in a demo day to thousands of top investors. It includes a tailored curriculum and program across finding product-market fit, hiring your first employees, closing your first customers, fundraising your Series A and beyond. During the 2021 Summer Accelerator, we worked closely with 15 teams over 17 weeks, culminating in a Demo Day with over 700 investors in attendance.

Pear Accelerator has been the birthplace of category-defining companies Affinity, Xilis, Capella Space, Nova Credit, Cardless, Viz.ai, and more, with 69 alumni companies overall having a cumulative valuation of $1.5B. This winter, for the first time, we are offering teams an investment of $500k at a $10M valuation cap. 

Providing founders personal, hands-on help is our first priority. We intentionally accept a small cohort to foster a tight community, allowing our partners to spend quality time with each Accelerator team.

Director of Accelerator Operations Role

As Director of Accelerator Operations, you’ll have a major impact on the long term success of Pear by improving the program with each cohort. Working hand-in-hand with Pear Investment Partners, you’ll source and support our Accelerator companies, guide them through the program, and make sure operations run smoothly. You’ll support key players including founders, mentors, and sponsors to get the best outcomes possible for our Accelerator companies.

We’re looking to onboard a full-time Director before our upcoming Winter Accelerator in 2022.

Responsibilities include:

  • In conjunction with the Investment Partners, plan, improve and implement the full execution of Pear Accelerator from sourcing companies through Demo Day.
  • Create and execute the application & interview process alongside the Investment team.
  • Manage week-to-week team progress by running weekly check-in meetings and serve as the conduit between cohort teams and the Investment Partners.
  • Lead promotion and marketing of Accelerator program and managing design resources 
  • Improve and augment Pear resources for companies, including but not limited to content, preferred vendors, mentors and business partners.
  • Manage program logistics like operations, budgeting, scheduling, calendar management, event planning, mentor coordination, office coordination, and founder community.
  • Manage the Accelerator community by making sure that founders, investors, mentors and partners build strong relationships.
  • Recruit, onboard, and match mentors and teams.
  • Manage program events like Accelerator Kickoff, Demo Day, speaker events, treks to companies, and social events
  • Gather and analyze data of previous cohorts including details on investment rounds post Demo Day and key statistics of companies.
  • Collect feedback on the program before, during and after the program. Analyze feedback and suggest improvements.

What We’re Looking For

You’re a project management guru and skilled multitasker who’s detail-oriented without losing the bigger picture. You have strong written and verbal communication skills and you thrive in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment. You are self-directed and can hit the ground running on Day 1.

Our ideal candidate has worked in a startup environment and is interested in gaining experience in marketing, operations, project management, community building, business development, event planning, and fundraising. You must have a Bachelor’s degree and be passionate about working with ambitious founders and early-stage startups, and a good sense of humor is always appreciated. 

Requirements aside, as long as you think you can be successful in this role and would find it exciting, we would be happy to consider you as a candidate. From our years of investing, we know that VC is often a game of exceptions.

Apply Here

We also love referrals, please send them our way. We take confidentiality very seriously. As a venture fund, our reputation is our currency.

We deeply understand the value of bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and we prioritize diversity within our team. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.

Come join Pear as a Visiting Partner!

Pear’s Visiting Partner program is for experienced founders and operators seeking to learn the full toolkit of early-stage VC through sourcing, diligence, and advising. 

This is a 6 month commitment, either part-time or full-time, with an opportunity to become an investment partner at Pear. Out of the past four Pear Visiting Partners, two have joined Pear full-time as investment partners, one continues to work with us part-time, and one is launching their own fund.  

In order to cultivate a more inclusive venture ecosystem, it’s important that funds like us continue to post open roles publicly. We are committed to building a diverse team internally, across our portfolio, and within the other Pear programs.

Pear partners with founders early to build indispensable, lasting companies

Pear VC is a leading early stage fund based in Palo Alto and San Francisco. We’ve partnered at the seed stage with world changing startups now worth over $100 billion, including Doordash, Gusto, Branch, Vanta, and Guardant Health.

Having founded and sold eight companies ourselves, we understand the challenges of building a company. We are founders’ thought partners as they iterate on the path towards product market fit. Along the way, we strive to ground founders in the hard truths, and to pull them out of the lows. 

Visiting Partner Role

As a Visiting Partner, you will work with other Pear investors and early-stage founders to build indispensable, lasting companies through working with our current portfolio, as well as leading and executing on new investments. We are looking for a 6 month or more commitment, either part time or full time, with an opportunity to become an investment partner at Pear.

Responsibilities include:

  • Learn the investment process end to end from sourcing, evaluating, and selecting investment opportunities, including our next batch of Pear Winter Accelerator companies and seed investments. 
  • Advocate for new investments in partner investment meetings and participate in team discussions on new investment opportunities broadly.
  • Bring creativity and innovation to the Pear programs from innovating on Accelerator to helping Pear be the best partner to startups
  • Serve as a thought partner and advisor to Accelerator startups over the course of the accelerator and participate in weekly check-ins with Accelerator companies to address various aspects of company building (fundraising, GTM, hiring, product-market fit, demo-day prep, etc.)
  • Develop and build broader relationships across the startup ecosystem including VCs, founders, partnerships and potential talent for recruiting

Pear Accelerator 

The Pear Accelerator is a three-month long bootcamp culminating in a demo day to thousands of top investors. It includes a tailored curriculum and program across finding product-market fit, hiring your first employees, closing your first customers, fundraising your Series A and beyond. Pear Accelerator has been the birthplace of category-defining companies Affinity, Xilis, Capella Space, Nova Credit, Cardless, Viz.ai, and more in our ever-growing Pear family. This winter, for the first time, we are offering teams an investment of $500k at a $10M valuation cap. 

Providing founders personal, hands-on help is our first priority. We intentionally accept a small cohort to foster a tight community, allowing our partners to spend quality time with each Accelerator team. 

What We’re Looking For

You’re aligned with Pear’s investment approach and are looking forward to working closely with early-stage teams. We are looking for a combination of grit, resourcefulness, experience, deep subject knowledge, and a genuine passion for helping founders go from idea to IPO.

Our ideal candidate is a former founder and someone who can provide first-hand experience and advice to our Accelerator teams. You’re not afraid to get your hands dirty, but you also have the knowledge and wisdom to be a thought partner to our companies. 

As long as you think you can be successful in this role, we would be happy to consider you as a candidate. From our years of investing, we know that VC is often a game of exceptions.

Apply Here

We also love referrals, please send them our way. We take confidentiality very seriously. As a venture fund, our reputation is our currency.