Analyst/Associate, Slow Ventures

New York City
Reports to Yoni Rechtman

Associates and Analysts at Slow work directly with the partners (mostly one partner) on sourcing, network growth, building internal tools, and the housekeeping that keeps it all running. They get exposed to our whole network of new and existing founders, investors, and limited partners.

I am mostly not looking for "leverage." I do my own diligence, write my own memos, and make my own decisions. I am looking for gneerative coverage - someone who can do things I can't get to, be in rooms I can't be in, and build systems that make us faster.

When I started in venture a decade ago, an analyst had to do analytical support work and cold outbound. The job was research, cap tables, deck prep, meeting notes, smile and dial, etc.

Most of that work is now faster to do myself with AI than to delegate or just doesn't work at seed. Instead, I want someone who can do what the AI cannot:

• Be in rooms and build relationships
• Build and use tools and systems that make us better
• Develop their own presence in the networks that matter most
• Create/find/access information thats not in the training data or open web

This is an opportunity for a lot of doing, learning, and learning-by-doing. The operating principle is simple: every problem you face in this role should be solvable with some combination of beer and tokens, and you have a (functionaly) unlimited budget for both.

Who we are

Slow Ventures is a seed firm managing over a billion dollars across multiple funds. We back founders at the earliest stages and fund them from illegible to undeniable. We look for great people with weird takes on important stories and believe that you need unique inputs to get N-of-one outcomes.

I'm Yoni Rechtman, the NY partner on the team. I have spent my whole career in venture in the city. I invest across industries and categories out of the belief that you can find important stories anywhere.

This role is reporting to me and working with me. This role is in-office and in New York.

What the job is

Be in the room/network. You'll represent Slow at events, dinners, and founder meetings. More importantly, you'll build your own presence in the founder and operator networks I'm asking you to be in. I want you spending time with whoever is interesting to you (and interesting to me). The requirement is that a lot of things are interesting to you and you have the energy to go pursue them.

Build the machine. We are actively building internal tools, workflows, and automations. You'll own a meaningful part of that for yourself, for me, and for the firm overall. This means shipping real things with and actively using AI tools.

Build your brand. This is a platform job. You have the Slow calling card, access to our network, and the autonomy to develop a public point of view. I want you to raise your profile and be known for something.

Bring me the work. I'd much rather say yes to a pitch than hand out assignments. Show up with opinions, experiments, and things you want to try. I want to help you allocate resources to your/our experiments and projects, not just come up with experiments for you to run.

Cultivate taste and exercise judgement. It's not enough to see a lot of things, you have to create a specific model of the world that makes sense to you and might be right. Use your head and have an opinion that you're willing to back up.

Eat glass. You will also do unglamorous work. Logistics, coordination, follow-through, box checking, things that are essential to making it run. This is the tax on everything else and it is non-negotiable.

If I generally skew more systems/SRE I need someone who skews more slop cannon/product eng. (i'll explain)

What a good week looks like

No two weeks are the same and the job will change as a result of needs, market conditions/meta, and the success/failure our of shared experiments. But a representative one might be:

• Host a dinner for 10 interesting people working on/thinking about something adjacent to a thesis we're developing.
• Show up at three events - one we're hosting, two we're not - and come back with 2-3 people worth a follow-up.
• Build a scraper, a workflow, or an internal tool that removes a recurring manual step from how we run the firm.
• Ship something public - a post, a thread, an event concept, a thesis - under your name or in collaboration with me.
• Sit in on 4-5 founder meetings with me and pressure-test what you think after each one.
• Close out the logistics and follow-through on last week's promises before making new ones.
• The best weeks are the ones you pitched me on and I said yes to. I want to be pitched, not pitching.

What the job is not

It is not a research and analysis role. I largely do my own analytical work and don't outsource my thinking. You won't be writing my memos or reviewing decks and models for me.

It is not a structured apprenticeship. The traditional path where a junior person learns investing by doing the analytical work outsourced from a senior person doesn't exist anymore because AI has allowed me to do it myself again. I'll try to help you cultivate taste and intuition. I'll expose you to a lot. But I'm not promising a set curriculum.

It's a launch pad, not a career path. The expected arc is ≈2 years. The likely outcome is that you join a company, start a company, or find a role at another fund, having met the people and had the experiences here that make that next thing possible. I take that seriously and will actively help make it happen.

What you get

Network. This is the most valuable thing about this job. You will meet an enormous number of interesting people and be in rooms that would take years to access independently. For someone in their early-to-mid twenties, this is an asset that compounds for the rest of your career.

Brand. The platform and the autonomy to develop a public point of view and raise your profile in a world where that matters.

Active investment in what's next. I take seriously the responsibility to help you figure out what you want to do and make it happen.

Comp. Structure and amount TBD. Reflect experience and reward success.

Freedom to build. A substantial budget to use whatever tools you want and build whatever you think is valuable.

A fun job.

Who I'm looking for

This is a brainy, high velocity, personality hire.

DDGR and pathological desire to succeed. An actual need to win, build, and make things happen. You should know and be able to articulate where that comes from.

Spiky. I want substantial, unusual strengths. I don't care much about weaknesses. A chaotic resume with evidence of obsession beats a clean one. You ran a Discord server with 10,000 members, or you built a tool that 500 people use, or you organized an event series from nothing. Something like that.

AI-native. Someone who instinctively reaches for tools to get things done faster and better. I don't care whether you've built an app or just use AI to move at twice the speed of everyone around you. The test is output and resourcefulness, not technical skill for its own sake.

High social intelligence and energy. You're good in a room. Founders and investors find you interesting. You want to be around people and you're good at building relationships.

Notably mature. Whether you're a new grad or a few years out, you need to be able to operate with significant autonomy from day one.

Backgrounds

The strongest candidates have worked at or founded a startup and have something to show for it. Shipped work beats a clean resume. If you can't point to a thing you built, ran, shipped, or hosted, this is probably not the right role yet - go do that first and come back.

New grads welcome if the evidence is there: you've been writing about startups, building things, running events, doing internships that mattered. Please don't drop out to take this job. If you're a senior, graduate first.

If you're coming from banking or consulting, the bar is higher and I expect the extracurriculars to carry the weight.

New York only. No exceptions.