Role: Talent at 5050 Location: London, UK (in-person) Type: Full-time
Fifty Years is a different kind of VC firm. We support early-stage founders making things civilization needs. We pride ourselves on always going the extra mile for our portfolio founders and have built the 50Y team to help our founders create and scale civilizationally important companies.
We support startups at the forefront of synthetic biology, energy, food, healthcare, space, construction, genomics, and many other industries. 50Y partners with founders in these fields to move humanity to the next level.
It’s working. We’ve backed over 100 deep tech startups and helped them raise over $4.6B in funding. Nearly 20% of the teams Fifty Years backed in our Fund I are now unicorns. All backed from pre-seed or seed.
We’ve distilled everything we know about deep tech entrepreneurship into 5050, our free, 16-week program to help great scientists and engineers become great deep tech founders.
Through 5050, participants:
5050 has helped create 45 companies, many of which wouldn't have existed otherwise. Now we’re building a team in London to bring 5050 to the UK.
We're looking for someone with a knack for finding exceptional talent. You'll find world shapers for 5050, as well as early talent additions for 5050 teams. By teaching 5050 cohort members talent and recruiting best practices, you'll help hundreds of scientists and engineers to tackle civilization-scale problems, grow into great founders, and build indispensable companies.
You'll build tools to identify potential world benders. For example, we've built SETI, an automated AI-driven pipeline to build top of funnel and identify potential 5050 participants. Alongside our engineering and 5050 teams, you’ll build scalable systems like SETI to find great future founders.
You'll be the first call to help 5050 founders build their teams – whether they need a scrappy chemical engineer or a marketing wizard with experience in synthetic biology. More importantly, you’ll teach them how you operate so the next time they have a key role to fill, they know exactly what to do. You'll build tools and nurture talent networks in niche areas to anticipate the talent needs of 5050 participants and alumni. As a mentor, you'll help teach 5050 participants how to build world-class teams.
Your mission is to do whatever it takes to help 5050 founders hire exceptional talent!