Location: San Francisco
Job Function: Private Equity
Job Type: Permanent
Req ID: 17168
Recruiter: Souri Zaman
GIC is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. With over 2,000 employees across 11 locations around the world, we invest in more than 40 countries globally across asset classes and businesses. Working at GIC gives you exposure to an extraordinary network of the world’s industry leaders. As a leading global long-term investor, we Work at the Point of Impact for Singapore’s financial future, and the communities we invest in worldwide.
GIC Private Equity
We deploy capital in areas where we can utilise our comparative advantages, namely, a long investment horizon, global presence, sector expertise, as well as skilled, and experienced teams.
Technology Investment Group (TIG)
TIG invests across the lifecycle of technology companies, investing directly in growth-stage private and public companies, and also serves as a limited partner in top-tier technology funds. TIG is a global team with a presence in San Francisco and Mumbai. TIG’s mission is to forge long-term financial and strategic relationships with its global partners. It is focused on helping its portfolio companies, entrepreneurs, and fellow asset managers navigate opportunities associated with technological disruption.
TIG incubated and oversees GIC’s Bridge Forum, a proprietary business development platform that has built communities connecting innovative tech companies with traditional industry stakeholders.
We’ve partnered with category-leading technology companies such as Anthropic, Stripe, Databricks, Affirm, DoorDash, Ramp, Figma, Grafana, and many more.
What impact can you make in this role?
You will be part of a team that is one of the largest, and most established private equity investors in the world today. You will lead the team’s research efforts using advanced analytics, statistical methods, and AI/LLMs to drive investment decisions and ensure we maintain a differentiated view in the market. Moving beyond traditional analysis, you will function as a core partner on investment decisions, collaborating directly with the deal teams to stress-test investment theses and address key investment concerns. This includes direct engagement with prospective technology companies, using data and AI to answer key investment questions, and ultimately driving investment decisions alongside the deal team. Our lean team provides the opportunity for team members to assume significant responsibility at the center of the investment lifecycle
What will you do as AVP/VP?
- Partner with deal teams to deliver differentiated investment insights, validate core underwriting assumptions and drive investment decisions through a rigorous, quantitative approach
- Take ownership of developing innovative solutions that leverage data/AI to generate differentiated signals that can directly influence investment decisions
- Engage directly with prospective technology companies alongside the deal team to ‘supercharge’ our investment diligence process. This includes identifying novel methods to evaluate a company’s products and fundamental growth drivers, expanding and enhancing the datasets that we have access to, and performing deep-dive technical analysis
- Leverage AI/LLMs to increase the speed and depth of our investment diligence process
- Support the monitoring of our investment portfolio using a rigorous, data-driven approach
- Build strong relationships within the technology and AI community
What qualifications or skills should you possess in this role?
- 4+ years of technical experience (e.g., as a data scientist, data engineer, or in a technical research role); prior experience in a similar role at a venture or growth fund is highly preferred
- Degree(s) in computer science, mathematics, machine learning, engineering, or related quantitative discipline
- Expertise in data science, including experience with the modern data stack (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, Tableau, etc.) and the ability to extract, clean, and analyze complicated datasets from diverse sources and formats
- Exceptional command of programming languages such as Python
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical results to non-technical stakeholders
- Solid business understanding and judgement
- Attention to detail
- Team player and enjoys working in a collaborative environment
- Highly motivated self-starter and able to work independently
- Interest in investing and venture/growth equity markets.
Work at the Point of Impact
We need to be forward-looking to attract the right people to help us become the Leading Global Long-term Investor. Join our ambitious, agile, and diverse teams - be empowered to push boundaries and pursue innovative ideas, share your views, and be heard. Be anchored on our PRIME Values: Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence, which guides us in how we make our day-to-day decisions. We strive to inspire. To make an impact.
Flexibility at GIC
At GIC, our offices are vibrant hubs for ideation, professional growth, and interpersonal connection. At the same time, we believe that flexibility allows us to do our best work and be our best selves. Thus, our teams come into the office four days per week to harness the benefits of in-person collaboration, but have the flexibility to choose which days they work from home and adjust this arrangement as situational needs arise.
We are an equal opportunity employer
As an employer, we passionately believe every individual brings with them unique diversity of thought and perspectives to meaningfully enrich perspectives of GIC teams to drive competitive performance. An inclusive environment yields exceptional contribution.
Compensation
Our compensation philosophy reflects several principles. We strive to provide a competitive compensation package to attract and retain talent globally. We pay for performance, and reward sustainable results. Total pay for this position comprises base pay and bonus. The anticipated base salary range for this role is between $180,000 and $315,000. Bonuses, which may form a meaningful proportion of the total pay package, are determined based on company and individual performance.
Learn More
Learn more about our Private Equity Department here: https://gic.careers/group/private-equity/
