Principal

About Antler

Antler backs the world’s most ambitious founders from the very start. Founded on the belief that innovation is the key to building a better future, we partner with people across six continents to launch and scale high-potential startups that address meaningful opportunities and challenges. Knowing that exceptional founders can come from anywhere with any background, we have offices in 30 cities, including New York, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Bangalore, Singapore, Seoul, and Sydney.
Our global community supports founders on deep business model validation, initial capital, expansion support, and follow-on funding. Fueled by a personal passion that goes beyond traditional investing, we have helped create and invested in more than 1,500 startups across a wide range of industries and technologies.
A better future won’t happen automatically—the world needs talented, determined, and resilient people to build it. Antler team members are part of an ambitious global community dedicated to helping the most driven founders move the world forward.

The role

We are looking for a Principal for our Antler West Africa operations. This is a core role in the Antler business, involving the end-to-end execution of the Antler program - including designing and executing, managing the relevant Antler resources, and deep interaction with our founders, portfolio companies and advisors. Successful development and graduation of our cohorts is critical to our success, both in West Africa and across the Continent.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Antler Africa & Global team to build on the design and execution of the biannual Antler programs in Nigeria; including interaction with the founders, advisors & partner companies.
• Build and manage the Antler program team members and other Antler resources to achieve successful delivery of the program for each cohort.
• Act as a coach and mentor to a diverse range of early-stage technology companies, supporting them through launch and investment.
• Support building the ecosystem of advisors, venture partners and investors across West Africa.
• Support recruiting, marketing and broader operations of Antler Africa.
• Be a powerful brand ambassador for Antler.

Key Experience

• Business acumen - understand business concepts. You will be reviewing thousands of ideas, decks and companies.
• Experience working in high growth technology companies.
• Demonstrated interest in sourcing, interviewing and candidate experience.
• Network within the Nigerian tech and start-up community.

Personal attributes

• Independent and proactive with a very positive attitude.
• Results-oriented and outstanding personal commitment.
• Comfortable with quick changes, tight deadlines, moving targets and ambiguity.
• Highly collaborative approach and influencing skills.
• Passion for entrepreneurship and a belief that the world needs more change-makers and innovators.

What we offer

• Opportunity to find and nurture the best talents that will generate many of the leading companies of the future.
• Opportunity to build and work with highly qualified and fun teams.
• Opportunity to participate in the early shaping and vision of the next generation of disruptive tech companies across Africa.
• An international environment with significant room for growth
• Competitive remuneration.