SMEVentures

Affiliate Manager

• Coach searchers through the deal lifecycle: target identification, business evaluation, transaction execution. Help them apply an investment lens, submit well-qualified LOIs, and close strong deals.
• Provide real support through a hard journey: not just strategic guidance, but the emotional steadiness that searcher fund entrepreneurs need to stay grounded through setbacks and make good decisions under pressure.
• Serve on portfolio company boards: become a trusted advisor to our CEOs, helping them build strategic plans, track performance, and navigate the challenges of running a business for the first time.
• Entrepreneur selection: source, vet, and back the high-potential leaders we partner with.
• Build the playbook: help codify how we work into documented, repeatable systems for searcher coaching, deal evaluation, and portfolio governance.

Entrepreneur Partner

Operations

• Deal Execution Logistics: When a deal is closing, there is a lot of administrative coordination that needs to happen — setting up documents in our e-signature platform, chasing signatures, updating records with ASIC, etc. Detailed, process-heavy work.
• Workflow Automation and AI Integration: Identify slow or repetitive processes and build improvements using AI tools, no-code automations, or better workflows to increase team speed.
• Generalist Problem Solving: Pick up and resolve emerging issues across the business — broken tools, missing processes, time-sensitive problems — with initiative and without waiting for step-by-step direction.
• Cross-Functional Operations: Handle a varied workload across functions delivering reliably with minimal oversight.

Entrepreneur Partner

Operations Associate