Investment Sourcing Lead @ 11 Tribes Ventures in Chicago, IL

11 Tribes Ventures; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

VC Stack is hiring an Investment Sourcing Lead in Chicago, Illinois. In this role, you'll be the first contact for founders, crafting innovative strategies for sourcing and maintaining relationships with investors and entrepreneurs alike.

Key qualities sought include being relational, self-motivated, and possessing strong communication skills. Your work will help VC Stack improve its selection quality and efficiency, ensuring a founder-respectful process throughout.

Qualifications

• Exceptional ability to synthesize calls into concise briefs and memos.
• Experience in managing a deal pipeline effectively.
• Strong research skills to identify promising opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Design an outbound sourcing strategy and cultivate relationships.
• Lead the inbound opportunity process and partner call preparations.
• Maintain a data-driven approach for pipeline management.

Skills

Strong written and verbal communication

Pipeline management

Research & analysis

Self-starter

Deeply curious

Relational

Confident

Job description

About 11 Tribes

11 Tribes Ventures is an early‑stage investment firm that proactively invests in the resilience of entrepreneurs. We are radical in our allocation of resources to develop our founders, investing real dollars in their mental, emotional, and spiritual well‑being. Our approach is proving that healthy founders will lead to healthy returns without compromising mission or profitability. By rejecting the status quo of dollar‑driven, people‑indifferent investing in lieu of an approach that centers around building businesses that are profitable and sustainable, we are changing the narrative of traditional venture from burnout to flourishing. We are the firm where capital and care converge.

Where We Are Headed

Over the past few years, there has been a necessary reckoning in the venture capital industry, where the traditional “growth at all costs” mindset has been challenged and disrupted. As many funds reel and reposition, there is a massive opportunity for any organization that is consistently authentic, humble, and focused. We are eager to assume the privilege and burden of applying healthy pressure to what is broken in venture capital and entrepreneurship. We are seeking another individual who is fiercely committed to sidestepping paths of least resistance to deliver outsized returns to investors through excellent capital allocation and radical founder care. Earlier this year, we closed our second fund, a significant step forward for our firm. We have invested in 11 companies to date and intend to make 10‑15 more investments over the next 18‑24 months. That’s where you come in.

About the Role

We are hiring an Investment Sourcing Lead to serve as our first point of contact for founders. You will be our firm’s “front door,” architecting and leading our sourcing engine.

• You will design an innovative outbound sourcing strategy, helping us create market maps, and will cultivate meaningful relationships across our ecosystem of founders and co‑investors.
• You will lead our inbound opportunity process by establishing a relationship with the founder(s).
• You will set up and prep partner calls with crisp briefs, surface the right questions fast, and move opportunities to a clear yes/no with speed and respect. You will balance your autonomy and speed with genuine empathy, reflecting our commitment to be the firm where capital and care converge.

Success looks like a dependable, data‑driven top‑of‑funnel approach: consistent weekly founder meetings, higher conversion rates from screening calls to partner calls, and tight write‑ups that separate signal from noise. You will run the operating system for our pipeline, allowing the partnership to select and win the right 8‑12 investments per year.

While you’ll naturally represent the firm in founder‑facing settings, your focus is sourcing, qualification, and pipeline velocity, not content or brand campaigns. Your work strengthens the flywheel by improving selection quality, sharpening our information advantage, and delivering a consistent, founder‑respectful process from first touch to decision.

Key Attributes

Character Traits:

• Self‑starter: energized by ambiguity, learns by doing
• Deeply curious: asks the non‑obvious questions that sharpen our selection
• Relational: builds trust quickly with founders, partners, and LPs
• Confident: shares the values of the firm externally, helping to build 11 Tribes’ reputation

Hard Skills:

• Strong written and verbal communication: can synthesize founder calls into tight briefs and clear decision memos
• Pipeline management: keeps deals organized, on pace, and prioritized
• Research & analysis: identifies overlooked verticals and promising founders others might miss

About You

You are deeply relational. At some point along the way, you realized that while the world of business, entrepreneurship, and startups is exciting, it is the relationships, influence, and impact on others that truly motivate and energize you. You are not afraid to march forward in ambiguity, learning by doing. You possess an extraordinary ability for self‑learning, quickly applying it with minimal direction or guidance. This requires strong emotional intelligence, active listening skills, anticipating the needs and requests of multiple stakeholders, and exerting a high level of empathy in all situations. You are an intrinsically motivated, hardworking individual and a thoughtful communicator who has a bias towards action. Your trajectory has been shaped by intention, resilience, and a commitment to excellence. Regardless of background, three innate qualities will lead to success at 11 Tribes:

• Humble – lack excessive ego or concerns about status
• Hungry – always looking for more to do, more to learn, more responsibility to take on
• Smart – have common sense about people and business