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Introduction The Emerging Technologies (ET) team mandate is to invest globally in deep-tech and AI innovation and development opportunities, which have the potential to drive inflection in existing industries or create completely new markets.
The ET team leverages its science and technology domain expertise, global reach, investment acumen, partnership mindset and business development capabilities to invest in early-stage deep tech start-ups which have a fundamental and differentiated techno-economic entitlement to outperform and deliver outsized returns.
Within this multi-billion mandate, the team aims to curate and build growth enterprises leveraging deep tech platforms with globally competitive partners, with the aspiration to create global category leaders in strategically important industries which will be part of Temasek's future core portfolio.
The candidate will be part of the team originating, developing and building emerging technology platforms with an innovative "VC+++" (more than just a regular VC investor) orientation towards delivering asymmetric returns. They should have a strong drive, sense of purpose, capacity to learn quickly, be able to concurrently lead cross-functional teams, collaborate across different teams/businesses and is well grounded in science, engineering and/or technology on first principles basis.
Responsibilities - Develop investment thesis, originate opportunities and execute investment process with speed and rigor
- Support and track portfolio companies' performance and strategies; actively identify cross-portfolio synergies and partnerships
- Enable new deep tech investment opportunities and platforms with a mindset towards value-creation levers beyond capital
- Build global networks, establish thought leadership and foster collaborative ecosystems
- Enable high performance high velocity teamwork alongside likeminded teammates.
Requirements - Undergraduate or post-graduate degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) disciplines. PhD and/or MBA would be viewed favorably
- Min 4 years of working experience in R&D, product development, tech strategy formulation and business development roles in tech enterprises or multinational companies, management consulting firms, deep tech VCs and technology private equity firms
- Financial modelling skills would be advantageous
- Keen analytical skills and the ability to glean insights from technical, commercial and financial data
- Ability to multi-task and lead in a dynamic and complex operating and regulatory environment
- Possess high level of interpersonal communications skills, presentation and learning agility
- Able to work well cross-functionally, as part of different teams and with multiple stakeholders
- Dare Mighty Things mindset
This role is location-agnostic, with primary work bases available in Singapore and San Francisco. The base salary range for this job in San Francisco is US$175k to US$250k annually (not including additional incentive compensation). Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and other conditions of employment.
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