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About the role
You will work directly with the CEO to build relationships with the people who can accelerate the Company.
You will identify and engage technical experts, advisors, investors, industry operators, potential recruits, customers, and other high-value stakeholders. You will research the right people, understand why they matter, develop compelling outreach, manage follow-up, and convert cold or warm introductions into productive conversations.
This is a hands-on role spanning research, writing, relationship development, executive communications, AI-enabled prospecting, and operational follow-through. Success is measured by high-quality conversations and relationships created, not the volume of messages sent.
Key responsibilities
- Identify high-value advisors, technical experts, investors, recruits, partners, and industry operators relevant to Company’s priorities.
- Research individuals deeply enough to understand their expertise, interests, relationships, and the strongest reason to engage.
- Write concise, highly personalized outreach and follow-ups across LinkedIn, email, introductions, and other channels.
- Learn the CEO’s voice and communicate with the judgment and context required to represent him effectively.
- Build relationship maps to identify warm introductions through investors, advisors, founders, alumni, and industry networks.
- Manage outreach from initial research through response, follow-up, meeting scheduling, and next action.
- Prepare the CEO for conversations with concise background, context, objectives, and recommended questions.
- Maintain a rigorous CRM of targets, conversations, relationships, responses, and next actions.
- Use AI, agents, enrichment tools, and automation to increase research and outreach throughput without sacrificing personalization.
- Continuously test messaging, targeting, channels, and follow-up strategies to improve response and meeting-conversion rates.
- Take promising conversations beyond the first meeting by driving introductions, information requests, and follow-up to completion.
Basic qualifications
- Bachelor's degree from a four-year university; technical, quantitative, or analytically rigorous fields preferred.
- 3+ years of experience in a high-performance environment such as a startup, venture capital, consulting, investment banking, executive search, recruiting, business development, or a founder's office.
- Demonstrated success converting cold or warm outreach into conversations with senior executives, technical experts, investors, candidates, customers, or other difficult-to-reach stakeholders.
- Exceptional written communication. Able to research someone, identify a compelling reason to engage, and write a concise message that feels personal rather than templated.
- Strong research and synthesis ability, including quickly developing enough fluency in unfamiliar technical or commercial subjects to identify the right people and engage them credibly.
- High interpersonal judgment and discretion when representing a founder in external communications.
- Advanced proficiency with AI tools for research, writing, synthesis, prospecting, and workflow execution, with demonstrated ability to build repeatable AI-enabled workflows.
- Strong operational discipline managing dozens of active relationships, follow-ups, commitments, and next actions without losing context.
- Evidence of unusually high ownership, resourcefulness, and follow-through in environments with incomplete information and limited structure.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience conducting executive, investor, advisor, recruiting, partnership, or expert outreach.
- Experience with LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, Attio or other CRMs, email sequencing, contact enrichment, and relationship-intelligence tools.
- Experience using ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, n8n, Zapier, Make, or similar tools to build AI-enabled research and outreach workflows.
- Technical curiosity and ability to understand enough mining, chemicals, energy, manufacturing, or deep tech to identify credible experts and engage them intelligently.
- Experience working directly with a founder, investor, executive recruiter, chief of staff, or business-development leader.
- Existing network across industrial technology, mining, energy, defense, manufacturing, startups, or venture capital.
What great looks like
- Company consistently gets conversations with people who initially had no relationship with the company.
- Outreach feels personal and founder-written rather than templated or AI-generated.
- The CEO spends less time researching people, drafting messages, and chasing follow-ups.
- Important relationships do not go cold because a follow-up was missed.
- Every priority company problem can quickly produce a targeted list of people who may know the answer or can make the right introduction.
- AI materially increases outreach throughput while quality remains high.
- The company’s network of advisors, experts, investors, operators, and prospective hires compounds over time.
What we offer
- Direct responsibility for expanding Company’s network and access to exceptional people.
- Significant autonomy over targeting, outreach strategy, tools, and relationship-development systems.
- Exposure to technical development, fundraising, recruiting, partnerships, and company building.
- The opportunity to grow into a broader Founder’s Office or strategic operations leadership role.
About Company
We are a US based VC backed startup helping rebuild mineral processing to unlock critical-mineral resources that are currently uneconomic.
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