Head of Research

TUM International; München; Hybrid; EUR 60.000 - 75.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Carried interest in the fund

Zusammenfassung

Revent is seeking a Head of Research in Munich (Berlin or London possible) for a two-year role starting Summer 2027 (or sooner). You will shape theses on the next decade’s leading companies, test them against experts and data, and identify founders to back.

The position offers high autonomy, regular collaboration with partners, and a path toward investing leadership. You will work with all three partners, building a strong research brain for the fund and contributing to multiple formats

Qualifikationen

• Go deep, fast. Take a market like gridflexibility or agent security, pull it apart, find the real bottleneck and opportunities, validatethem with people in the space, and come back with a point of view and thoughts on the founders weshould meet.
• Make the case in writing. Turn whatyou’ve learned into opinionated theses thepartners can act on, then sharpen them further forthe outside world.
• Build and research with AI. Use the mosthelpful AI tools, and build your own agents andworkflows on top of them to move extremelyquickly. You’ll collaborate with other teammembers building out our core AI infra to ensurewe get maximal leverage and channel all insightsback into Revent’s core ‘brain.’

Aufgaben

• Go deep and test market theses with experts, data, and instincts.
• Write opinionated theses for partners to act on and defend them.
• Collaborate with teams to build AI workflows and research for deal sourcing.

Jobbeschreibung

Head of Research, Revent
Munich (Berlin or London possible) Two-year role Starting summer 2027 (or sooner)
Most people will hear about the companies thatdefine the next decade once they've raised aSeries B. You'll know them before they have aname.
We're looking for one exceptional graduate tobecome Revent's Head of Research: to work out,before almost anyone else, where the mostimportant companies of the next decade will comefrom, and then to help us find and back thefounders building them. You won’t be a backgroundplayer; your work will decide where real moneygoes.

About Revent
Revent is a Day 0 venture capital firm backingobsessives on a mission. We lead or co-leadpre-seed rounds with €1-3M checks, mostly inEurope, from Berlin, Munich and London, andwe're deploying a fresh $130M fund. Ourfounders have gone on to raise from Sequoia(Avelios) and Lightspeed (tem energy), withseveral more top-tier rounds we can't announceyet, and our fund performance is benchmarked inthe top 10%.

The Role
Most VC research produces market maps nobodyreads. Ours decides where we invest. Everyinvestment we make starts with a thesis: a view onwhere a market is about to inflect, why now, andwhat kind of founder can win it. Your job is tobuild those theses, pressure-test them againstexperts, data, and our own instincts, and turnthem into a short list of companies we shouldsearch for, founders we should be talking to, andideas to incubate before anyone else. Ultimately,the goal of your research is an investment, whichstarts with the team having a prepared mind and aclear point of view.
A typical week might look like this: an 8am callwith a PhD student in Zurich whose side projectmight become an exciting company. A half-daypulling apart a market everyone thinks is toocrowded and finding the one layer thatnobody's building but really matters. Writinga memo about where we should be spending our timethat you have to defend in front of the partnerson Thursday, and then turn into a point of viewthat you get into the hand of the most relevantfounders and investors in the ecosystem. An agentyou built over the weekend that surfaces threefounders we'd never have found otherwise andhelps us offer them something useful. In short,there’s a lot of variation, high-agency, and therole itself is very high-impact. You’ll work withall three partners, and have regular check-in’swith one of the GPs.

Research, most of your time

• Go deep, fast. Take a market like gridflexibility or agent security, pull it apart, findthe real bottleneck and opportunities, validatethem with people in the space, and come back witha point of view and thoughts on the founders weshould meet.
• Make the case in writing. Turn whatyou’ve learned into opinionated theses thepartners can act on, then sharpen them further forthe outside world. You’ll contribute significantlyto our Substack, reports, and in our letters toinvestors. Your strongest cases should become ournext investments.
• Build and research with AI. Use the mosthelpful AI tools, and build your own agents andworkflows on top of them to move extremelyquickly. You’ll collaborate with other teammembers building out our core AI infra to ensurewe get maximal leverage and channel all insightsback into Revent’s core ‘brain.’

Everything research feeds into

• Find founders before anyone else in labs,research groups, GitHub and hackathons acrossEurope and beyond.
• Work on live deals with the partners:customer calls, diligence, investment memos, and avoice during investment decisions.
• Arm our founders with research andnetwork connections from these activities thatgive them an edge, be it an insight or a newcustomer.
• Work across the portfolio to understand,measure and communicate the impact our portfoliois making to the outside world and to ourinvestors.
  

How we Work
You’ll be based in one of our offices, most likelyMunich, otherwise in our Berlin hub or London, andwe’re together in person most days because thebest ideas still tend to happen at a whiteboard.You’ll travel a fair bit to wherever greatbuilders are clustering and to the people who canmeaningfully change how you see a market.
The pace is intense but the mood is optimistic, acombination we’ve found surprisingly sustainable.We think of it as a marathon with sprints, so wepush very hard when it matters and recover wellwhen it doesn’t.

About You
You're graduating in 2027 from a top programin engineering, the sciences, or socialscience/economics, and you're probablyweighing offers that look a lot safer than thisone. You're the person who reads the papereveryone else skims and then understands whatimplications the results have for the next companythat needs to be built. You form opinions fast andargue for them hard, but you revise them themoment the evidence turns. You already use AI towork faster and go deeper than most people aroundyou, and you've built tools of your own toautomate large chunks of your own work.
You're competitive and you want to be rightbefore anyone else. If you're obsessed withsomething, we want to hear about it, and we wantto know how you think about your own missiontoo.

What it Takes
We're a small team of obsessives on a missionand we play to win. You'll own real work fromweek one, defend your views to the partners, andlive with the outcome. We're asking for twofull years, because that's what it takes toget genuinely great at this, and we'll investheavily in getting you there. Thereafter, yourrole could either transition within the firm (e.g.to a full-time investing role), or we’ll help youfind an amazing next step. Most of our alums go onto start their own companies.

What You’ll Get

• Ownership of real decisions within yourfirst weeks, and direct, daily collaboration withthe partners.
• A view of the next generation ofcompanies years before the market catches on.
• Your name on our research and Substackpieces, and a public voice in the ecosystem fromday one.
• A network that spans founders, top-tierco-investors and the people building Europe’s nextwave of companies, including at our annual foundersummit.
• After two years, a path into ourinvestment team, or the judgment, network andbacking to found a company of your own.
• Compensation of €60,000 - €75,000depending on qualifications (i.e. bachelors vs.masters), a performance-based bonus, perks thatensure you can perform at your best, and carriedinterest in the fund.

Practicalities
Full-time, starting summer 2027 or sooner if youare available earlier, ideally in Munich, withBerlin or London possible. You must have the rightto work full-time within the EU or the UK. We arenot sponsoring visas.

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