Scouting Manager

About Antler

Antler is a global venture capital firm that backs the world’s most ambitious founders from the very start. Founded on the belief that innovation is the key to building a better future, we partner with people across six continents to launch and scale high-potential startups that address meaningful opportunities and challenges. Knowing that exceptional founders can come from anywhere with any background, we have offices in 30 cities, including New York, London, Berlin, Sydney, Melbourne, Bangalore, Singapore, Seoul, and Stockholm.

Our global community supports founders on deep business model validation, initial capital, expansion support, and follow-on funding. Fueled by a personal passion that goes beyond traditional investing, we have helped create and invested in more than 1,500 startups across a wide range of industries and technologies. Antler is the world’s most active early-stage VC and the most active AI investor globally, according to PitchBook and Dealroom.

A better future won’t happen automatically—the world needs talented, determined, and resilient people to build it. Antler team members are part of an ambitious global community dedicated to helping the most driven founders move the world forward.

The role
This is a unique opportunity to break into venture capital and gain exposure to some of the most exciting early-stage startups in Australia and beyond. You’ll work alongside outstanding founders as part of a high-performing team that’s among the most active VC firms in the region. It’s a rare chance to build your network, sharpen your investment instincts, and fast-track your career in VC.

The purpose of the role is to find the best potential founders at idea and pre-revenue stage, bring them into Antler and enable stellar investment decisions via assisting founders throughout the investment process in our Residency. Now deploying our second fund, Antler has ambitions to invest in hundreds of companies in the region over the next few years.

Responsibilities

Scouting and Scouting Operations (70-80%)

• Lead our NSW Scouting efforts to find the best founders in Australia via content, direct outreach and events
• Own founder pipeline and goals for Sydney/NSW
• Own Hubspot and Antler proprietary CRM product workflows for Antler Australia
• Be a powerful brand ambassador establishing Antler as a premier place to build a VC-scale business in Australia
• Assess prospective founders through interviews and applications: we receive thousands of applications, you will be part of the interviewing team. To do this well you need a love for uncovering examples of grit, resilience and spikes. Plus curiosity in early-stage business ideas
• Proactively build relationships across universities, founder networks, accelerators, tech communities, and online channels
• Prioritise and hunt at ecosystem events to identify high-potential founders

Investments and Residency (20-30%)

• Provide advice to founders during Residency and assess their investability
• Support Investment Committee (IC) memo preparation and own processes leading up to IC meetings, e.g. completion of pre-investment checks
• Maintain internal systems to track pipeline performance, decision processes, and funnel health
• Enable the smooth delivery of Antler’s residency content including managing in-person sessions, ensuring founders have access to resources, and owning the tech setup for session delivery

Requirements

• 5 years + professional experience in GTM/Sales, ideally in a startup or as a founder
• Plugged into the Sydney tech/startup community with an active network
• A confident people person with the curiosity and drive to uncover the best potential founders in Australia
• Highly organised, proactive and comfortable with ambiguity; able to structure and execute multiple processes simultaneously
• Experience with CRMs and pipeline management
• Based in Sydney
• Hybrid Role: 4 days per week (Monday to Thursday), in Antler’s office, with the opportunity to work one day a week remotely

Not essential, but nice to have:

• Demonstrable passion for VC and working with founders
• Hands-on experience building or using AI agents, automation workflows (e.g. Zapier, Gumloop), or AI dev tools (e.g. n8n, v0, Lovable)

What Antler offers

As part of this role, employees have the opportunity to be part of a growing global business, see the impact of their work on the day-to-day operations of the business, and join our mission to back the world’s most driven founders, from day zero to greatness. 

Along with that, you will:

• Create a legacy with an opportunity to impact the direction of Antler locally and across geographies
• Be part of a platform that helps build and invests in hundreds of disruptive companies every year
• Opportunity to grow your network and develop your understanding of the startup, VC and business innovation space, supported by a personal L&D budget
• The chance to work in a global and rapidly growing company with a truly global team and culture with significant local and global growth opportunities
• Flexible working hours where you are empowered to work in a way that brings the best out of you, along with 4-weeks remote working per year, birthday days off and Summer Hours
• A competitive salary, Fund Carry options and incentives to earn more through internal Scouting initiatives