About Zacua Ventures
Zacua Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund with a global reach, specializing in innovations within the built environment. Our core focus is on investing in transformative technologies that enhance sustainability, productivity, and industrial resiliency.
Zacua Ventures is managed by an international and diverse team, each having more than a decade of industry experience. In alignment with our international perspective, we maintain a presence in key global hubs. Our primary offices are strategically located in San Francisco and Madrid, with additional team members based in New York, Munich, Mexico City, Dubai and Melbourne. This global footprint allows us to remain at the forefront of innovation and tap into diverse talent pools and emerging markets.
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Position Overview
As part of the Platform team at Zacua Ventures, you will play a key role in building and scaling the firm’s value creation engine across our global ecosystem.
Zacua operates a differentiated model at the intersection of venture capital and critical industries, working closely with some of the world’s largest corporations in the built environment. This creates a powerful two-sided platform: enabling startups to access strategic customers, partners, and expertise, while delivering innovation and insights back to our industry investors.
In this role, you will work hands-on with portfolio companies, corporate partners, and the investment team to drive meaningful outcomes: supporting commercial growth, facilitating strategic partnerships, and strengthening Zacua’s global network.
This is an ideal role for someone who enjoys operating at the intersection of startups, corporates, and venture capital, and wants to help build a best-in-class platform function.
Key Responsibilities
Portfolio Support & Value Creation
- Partner with portfolio companies to help them scale successfully, providing strategic support across key business functions including growth, operations, fundraising, talent, partnerships, and comms.
- Act as a trusted advisor to founders by connecting them with Zacua’s network of corporate partners, investors, industry experts, and fellow entrepreneurs to unlock opportunities and overcome growth challenges.
- Support and champion founders building transformative solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges, including sustainable infrastructure, housing, energy resilience, and climate innovation.
- Help design and execute a scalable platform program inspired by best-in-class VC platforms (e.g., founder support, commercial acceleration, knowledge sharing)
**Corporate & Investor Engagement
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- Help manage and activate Zacua’s network of industry investors (LPs), ensuring consistent and high-quality engagement.
- Support the development of initiatives that deliver strategic value to corporate partners (e.g., innovation scouting, pilot opportunities, curated insights).
- Creation of investor support materials like quarterly reporting, LP updates, data requests, performance summaries, and investor-facing materials.
- Maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across Zacua’s ecosystem and develop new partnerships.
Ecosystem Building
- Contribute to expanding Zacua’s global network of founders, operators, and industry leaders.
- Support the organization of events (internal and external), roundtables, and thematic initiatives that connect startups with industry. Including coordination of Zacuas AGM, the flagship event of the fund
- Help position Zacua as a leading platform-driven VC in the built environment.
- Cultivate and strengthen relationships with co-investors and follow-on investors, by providing regular updates of portfolio progress, and understanding its priorities.
Internal Operations
- Support the management of CRM systems and internal tools to track interactions across portfolio companies and corporate partners.
- Help ensure structured communication, reporting, and knowledge sharing across the team.
Qualifications
- 3–8 years of experience in high-speed, demanding environments, such as consulting, investment banking, startup operation, acceleration programs, or a related field.
- Experience across startups, VC, and large organizations; ideal candidates bring exposure to all three environments.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management abilities.
- Commercial mindset with an understanding of how startups grow and sell into enterprises.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
- Analytical mindset with attention to detail.
- Experience in partnerships, business development, operations, or go-to-market roles is highly relevant.
Desired Traits
- Highly proactive with a “builder” mentality.
- Genuine curiosity about startups, technology, and industry.
- Comfortable operating across different contexts: founders, corporates, and investors.
- Prior experience in community building; experience in VC would be a strong plus.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Team-oriented with a willingness to roll up sleeves and execute.
- International mindset and willingness to travel.
Location & Logistics
- Location: Madrid, Spain.
- Full-time position.
- Hybrid work environment.
- Global travel required.
Why you should Join:
- Truly international investment fund: gain exposure to a global portfolio across multiple countries, with the chance to travel frequently and build an outstanding network across the built-world ecosystem.
- Ownership from day one: you'll own and execute the platform build for Zacua Ventures from the start, with the autonomy to shape it and see your fingerprints on everything you create.
- Access to exceptional founders and operators: work alongside ambitious entrepreneurs reinventing the construction and built environment, and a team that treats portfolio support as a craft.
- Mission with real-world impact: help drive sustainability, productivity, and resiliency across an industry that shapes how the world is built.
- High growth and learning velocity: in a lean, global team you'll take on broad responsibility early, learn fast across the entire investment lifecycle, and grow well beyond a narrow job description
