plugandplaytechcenter

plugandplaytechcenter

Ventures Associate - Enterprise & AI

West Windsor Township, New Jersey

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 9 hours ago
Vector DatabasesMachine LearningData EngineeringLLMsRAGAgentic AICybersecurityOutbound SalesResearchLeadershipCommunicationWriting

About the role

  • We're expanding our Enterprise & AI Ventures team and hiring a technical Associate who can evaluate complex AI/enterprise software products and translate that diligence into clear investment decisions.
  • This role is ideal for someone with an engineering mindset who wants to operate at the intersection of AI systems, enterprise workflows, and venture investing.

Responsibilities

  • Build and refine investment theses across Enterprise AI and adjacent infrastructure (data, security, devtools, agentic systems).
  • Conduct structured interviews with corporate partners to understand technology gaps and innovation priorities

Requirements

  • CS/engineering background or equivalent experience shipping software.
  • Comfort evaluating modern AI systems and data stacks (e.g., LLM apps, RAG, fine-tuning, evals, vector DBs, warehouses/ETL, observability).

Skills

  • can size markets and synthesize complex information
  • Excellent written and verbal communication-able to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
  • Genuine curiosity about startups, venture capital, and emerging technologies
  • Experience at a startup or a tech firm in product engineering, solutions engineering, ML engineering, security engineering, or technical PM
  • This is an opportunity to gain comprehensive venture capital experience while leveraging your technical background.
  • Why This Role
  • architecture reviews, data infrastructure evaluation, and scalability analysis
  • Track emerging technologies, competitive landscapes, and venture activity across your focus areas
  • Enterprise Partner Engagement
  • Translate enterprise needs into actionable sourcing + diligence criteria.
  • Facilitate introductions between startups/scaleups and corporate partners
  • Support executive briefings, demo days, and enterprise matchmaking.

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