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Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.
What You'll Be DoingThe Assistant Vice President within Stifel’s Venture Enterprise team supports and leads initiatives designed to meet the financing and banking needs of existing and prospective clients. This role engages with senior leaders across the organization and within the venture and technology ecosystem to understand emerging technology, industry, and capital markets trends and evaluate their impact on clients and prospects. The Assistant Vice President is actively involved throughout the debt lifecycle, including deal structuring, underwriting, execution, and ongoing portfolio management. Based in San Francisco, this position offers broad exposure to the technology industry while developing an in-depth understanding of individual companies and their financial and strategic needs.What We're Looking For
- Lead portfolio level analytics and reporting, including pipelines, portfolio tracking, board material development, and special projects with Group leads.
- Understands various forms of debt and their applicability to businesses based on each company’s unique attributes.
- Able to drive deal processes – from the collection and review of diligence materials to the underwriting and internal presentation of credit packages to legal documentation.
- Monitor an existing portfolio of borrowers to ensure compliance with loan covenants and report status up to the leadership team.
- Build strong relationships with key stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem, including venture capitalists, founders, and advisors.
- Attend industry events, networking functions, and conferences to represent the firm and build professional networks.
- Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, venture banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
- Interest in technology trends, key metrics, and capital markets impacting the innovation ecosystem.
- Use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; able to build strong relationships with clients and internal teams.
- Proactive, detail-oriented, and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities.
- Microsoft Office with emphasis on Excel software proficiency.
- Minimum Required: Bachelor's Degree in finance, business, accounting, economics or related field required.
- Minimum Required: 3+ years of venture banking, commercial banking, investment banking, or private capital investing experience required.
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook #LI-JK1
Stifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.
While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.
At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.
Stifel’s bank and trust companies are equal opportunity employers. All candidates will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. If you would like more information regarding Equal Employment Opportunity rights and protections, please review the following information: Know Your Rights.
Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in finance, business, accounting, economics, or a related field
- 3+ years of experience in venture banking, commercial banking, investment banking, or private capital investing
- Knowledge of economic and accounting principles, financial markets, venture banking, and financial data analysis and reporting
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Ability to understand debt structures and their applicability to businesses
- Ability to drive deal processes, including diligence review, underwriting, credit presentations, and legal documentation
- Ability to monitor borrower portfolios and loan covenant compliance
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Stifel Financial Corp. Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Compensation is positioned as highly attractive for financial advisors, with emphasis on meaningful earning upside tied to production. Recognition for advisor satisfaction indicates that incentive mechanics can be a differentiator in producer roles.
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Flexible Benefits — The benefits program is broad and multi-option, spanning multiple health plan choices, FSAs/HSAs, and a wide set of voluntary insurance add-ons. This menu-style design supports tailoring coverage to different life stages and needs.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented benefits are extensive, including parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility and family-building support, and back-up childcare and elder care. These offerings signal a comparatively strong support system for caregiving and family planning.
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What We Do
Established in 1890, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated is one of the nation’s premier full-service financial services firms, providing brokerage, trading, investment banking, investment advisory, and related services to individual investors, professional money managers, businesses, and municipalities through more than 400 locations across the U.S. Stifel ranks as the 7th largest brokerage firm in the country as measured by number of financial advisors, with approximately 2,300, and features a highly regarded equity research department that has earned numerous accolades from such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the Financial Times. In 2023 and 2024, Stifel was recognized as the No. 1 wealth management firm for employee advisor satisfaction, based on the J.D. Power U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study*. Stifel is the principal subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a financial services holding company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Stifel Financial Corp.'s other subsidiaries include Stifel Independent Advisors, LLC, an independent contractor broker-dealer firm; Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited, the Company’s European subsidiary; Stifel Nicolaus Canada, Inc., our Canadian subsidiary; Stifel Bank and Trust and Stifel Bank, retail and commercial banks; and Stifel Trust Company, N.A. and Stifel Trust Company Delaware, N.A, our trust companies. *Stifel received the highest score among employee advisors in the J.D. Power 2023-2024 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Studies, which measures employee advisors’ satisfaction among those who are employed by an investment services firm. Visit jdpower.com/awards for more details.








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