Senior Associate, Growth Investing

<h2><strong>About Bessemer Venture Partners</strong></h2> <p>Bessemer Venture Partners is a global venture firm that partners with audacious founders from their earliest days through every stage of growth. The firm manages $20 billion in assets, with more than 145 IPOs and 300 portfolio companies across AI, enterprise, consumer, health, and frontier tech including Anthropic, Perplexity, Canva, Shopify, Twilio, LinkedIn, ClickHouse, Saronic, Legora, Abridge, and Toast.</p> <h2><strong>The Role</strong></h2> <p>We're hiring a Senior Associate to join Bessemer's growth investing team based in San Francisco. You will be focused on AI apps, infrastructure, defense, techbio, energy, and various other roadmaps. You'll work directly with Byron Deeter and collaborate with partners and investors across the firm to find and back the companies building the foundational layers of the next era of software.</p> <p>Growth investing is won long before a round comes together. Access comes from knowing a business deeply, building genuine relationships with leadership, and being consistently useful well before there's a deal to discuss. That takes real work: staying on top of companies, getting on planes, showing up prepared, and following through on the small things. We're looking for someone who is energized by that work.</p> <p>The role combines relationship building with analytical depth. As a "full stack" investor, you'll work across the entire investment lifecycle:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Thesis development:</strong> Go deep on the markets we care about and help create and refine the roadmaps that guide where the team spends its time.</li> <li><strong>Sourcing:</strong> Map the companies that matter, track their trajectories, and build relationships with founders and executives years before they raise.</li> <li><strong>Due diligence:</strong> Lead financial modeling, cohort and retention analysis, market sizing, customer calls, and competitive work on live deals.</li> <li><strong>Investment recommendations:</strong> Synthesize your work into a clear point of view and present it as we make decisions.</li> <li><strong>Portfolio support:</strong> Help our companies with KPIs, board preparation, key introductions, and follow-on financings.</li> <li><strong>Miscellaneous: </strong>Assist with social media presence, content creation, and brand building&nbsp;</li> </ul> <h2><strong>About You</strong></h2> <p>We're looking for someone with an exceptional work ethic: entrepreneurial, resourceful, and humble. The right candidate takes full ownership of their work, is willing to tackle tasks big or small, and cares more about getting it right than getting