Executive Briefing Center Manager

Executive Briefing Center Manager
Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as “a16z”) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, bio/healthcare, crypto, and fintech spaces. a16z has $28.2B in assets under management across multiple funds, including the $2.9B Bio funds, the $3.1B Crypto funds, and the Cultural Leadership Fund.

We’ve established a team that is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial company building process. We’ve invested in companies like Airbnb, Apeel, Coinbase, Figma, Freenome, Instacart, Lyft, Slack, and Stripe. Our team is at the forefront of new technology, helping entrepreneurs and their companies impact and change the world.

The Go-To-Market Network team has built the deepest c-level executive network in the world for our portfolio companies to work with and learn from. This team of proven sales, marketing and consulting professionals has developed an environment to enable and support marketing, sales, services, and customer success teams our portfolio’s path to revenue. Their expertise extends into marketing, product management and business development, to help to promote the right partnerships for improved requirements gathering, product roadmaps and proof-of-concepts, as well as go-to-market relationships to accelerate time-to-market.

The Role

• Lead a team of coordinators supporting the go-to-market team and their network of over 5000 enterprises
• This is a player/coach role, the expectation is that you will both lead the team and own scheduling and coordination of meetings, calls, and events including on-site meetings and off site events for your pod.
• Coordinate logistics (including locations, schedules and notifications) for briefings with portfolio companies, the network, and partners.
• Serve as the main point of contact for briefing logistics.
• Manage all catering and onsite logistics for briefings.
• Update internal systems to reflect briefing agendas, attendees, content.
• Maintain network and portfolio company contacts in the systems.

To join our team, you should be excited to:

• Lead a team of 4, provide guidance and support to a high performing team.
• Provide a white glove experience to our portfolio companies and our GTM network with every interaction.
• Be in person in the NYC office 3-5 days a week (as needed)
• Travel to support conferences and events
• Work with world class entrepreneurs and corporate executives.
• Reflecting the core values and qualities of a16z, you will be the first and last interaction our network has with the firm.

Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree

• 4-5 years of reception, coordination, office management or events experience.
  3-5+ years of leadership experience, including direct management of a team.
• You work well independently as well as with a team.
• Superb organization skills and high attention to detail.
• Bias to action, you see a problem and want to fix it, you see a process not working, you want to work to make it work better.
• Ability to anticipate change and react quickly, with a solution.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• You excel in high pressure situations, and are able to maintain calm and positive.
• Proficiency in using GSuite, Zoom, and Salesforce.