Investor Relations Manager

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Investor Relations Manager to craft compelling narratives for the investment community. This role involves building strong relationships with investors, guiding financing strategies, and managing investor communications. You will collaborate closely with senior leadership and contribute to strategic planning while ensuring a clear understanding of the company's financial landscape. If you're detail-oriented, analytical, and possess strong communication skills, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Join a forward-thinking company that values diverse experiences and encourages all qualified candidates to apply.

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years in investor relations or capital raising experience.
• Proven ability to present complex financial information clearly.

Responsibilities

• Develop and share the Rippling story with investors and analysts.
• Manage fundraising processes and investor relationships.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Communication Skills

Relationship Management

Analytical Skills

Presentation Skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Advanced Degree

Job description

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.

About The Role

As an Investor Relations Manager on the Investor Relations team, you will work on positioning the Rippling story for investors, research analysts, global banks, and other important partners. You will build high-trust relationships with our current and prospective investors while guiding Rippling’s approach to financings in the private markets through an IPO and post-IPO. In this role, you will report directly to the SVP, Head of IR and GM of Startups while working closely with our CFO and CEO as needed. Responsibilities will include collecting and analyzing information that will inform our narrative and investor materials, managing investor and analyst relationships, and managing various investor meetings, presentations, and events. You will also serve as a key resource to internal stakeholders and a strategic contributor to the company’s planning and communications functions. We are looking for an extremely organized, detail-oriented, analytical, and motivated professional with strong financial analysis and communication skills.

What You'll Do:

• Assist in developing and sharing the Rippling story to the investment community; including existing investors, prospective investors, and top equity research analysts.
• Develop a strong financial understanding of the business, including knowledge of the annual plan and long-range plan, public market comparables, R&D ROI metrics, and how we make decisions, S&M KPIs and guardrails, etc.
• Lead pre-marketing activity, primary capital raise, and annual secondary capital raises including all investor materials, capital raise contracts (side letters, equity raise documents, etc.) with the legal function, and strategic planning of announcement with communications function.
• Manage the fundraising process and the annual employee tender program, as well as help on investor marketing including conferences, presentations, and managing day-to-day tasks including tracking relationships with the broader investment community.
• Learn Rippling’s business holistically and regularly interact with colleagues in finance, accounting, legal, communications, and others - you’ll be able to speak knowledgeably about Rippling’s major plans across teams and how things are progressing.
• Build out and manage the investor update program for existing and new investors. This includes quarterly updates for select investors as well as materials preparation related to fundraising.
• Develop mature infrastructure for investor relations at a pre-IPO company, including quarterly earnings cadence (script, Q&A prep, shareholder letter and other investor resources), and collections of market news / benchmarking for our executive team.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. An advanced degree is a plus.
• Experience presenting highly complex financial or technical information.
• Experience building and maintaining relationships with investors ideally.
• 5 to 8+ years of proven, relevant experience raising capital/investor relations, working in finance team at a company, capital markets, or investment banking. Backgrounds from investment firms (e.g. venture capital, growth equity, private equity mutual funds, other) also of interest.
• Thorough understanding of markets, financial statements and analysis, and technology trends.
• Proven communication and presentation skills. Can distill complex financial and business information into clear and succinct messages.
• Effective relationship-building skills and can quickly establish trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders.
• Proactive mindset, highly analytical, and detail-oriented. Can execute on both tactical and strategic projects.
• Operates with a sense of urgency and can deliver high-quality work under tight deadlines with a high level of autonomy and reliability.

If you don’t necessarily meet all of the requirements listed here, we still encourage you to apply because skills can be used in lots of different ways; your life experience is equally important sometimes.