{"id":1167412,"url":"https://alion.io/job/fictiv-investment-associate","title":"Investment Associate","company":{"id":1859,"name":"Fictiv","domain":"fictiv.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/fictiv","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":9,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":47,"computed_at":"2026-09-25T05:45:01Z"}},"role":"Operations","role_family":"Operations","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Oakland, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":125000,"max":150000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":150000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T04:05:27Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-25T22:46:55Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"About MISUMI Americas\nMISUMI Americas, a division of MISUMI Group, is a leading provider of standard, configurable, and custom manufacturing solutions. By integrating a vast catalog of components with a world-class digital manufacturing platform, MISUMI Americas empowers engineers and procurement teams to accelerate innovation across the entire product lifecycle. With operations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago, the company serves as a vital partner for the most innovative companies in the Americas.\nInvestment Associate \nMisumi Ventures · San Francisco Bay Area · Full-time \nThe fund \nMisumi Ventures is a $50 million early-stage fund investing at the intersection of frontier hardware, robotics, automation and industrial AI. \nWe will build a portfolio of 20 to 30 seed and early-stage companies. Our thesis is specific. Hardware companies rarely fail because the idea was wrong - they fail in the gap between a working prototype and repeatable volume production. Our portfolio companies get direct access to MISUMI's manufacturing continuum: more than 30 million standard parts, 22 company-owned factories, 4,000 sourcing partners, and a five-region network across the Americas, China, Asia, Europe and Japan. That is what we put on a cap table alongside the check. \nThe role \nMisumi Ventures is newly launched. Our founding partners hold operating responsibilities within MISUMI Americas, which means the Investment Associate will be the fund's first dedicated full-time investment professional. \nThe scope is correspondingly broad. You will build our deal funnel, own how the fund presents itself to founders and co-investors, support diligence and portfolio companies, and run the reporting cadence to our LP. You will report to the Managing Partner and participate in investment discussions. \nThis is not a narrow deal seat, and we want to be direct about that before you apply. \nResponsibilities \nSourcing and co-investor relationships \nOur deal flow depends on being present in the pipelines of the firms that do lead. You will build and maintain relationships with investors across our sectors, work the accelerator and university research channels that produce frontier hardware companies, and keep a current map of who is funding what in robotics, automation, aerospace, and industrial software. You will run first meetings and write the memo that determines whether a partner takes a second. \nFund positioning and ecosystem presence \nFounders and co-investors distinguish between a fund and a corporate development budget, and our credibility depends on being clearly understood as the former. You will own our external presence - website, content, founder-facing communications, and our participation in the deep-tech and hardware communities - and run the founder dinners, technical sessions and events that make us a known quantity in our categories. \nDiligence and portfolio support \nTechnical and commercial diligence: customer references, expert calls, competitive and supply chain analysis, market sizing. Post-investment, you will connect portfolio companies into MISUMI's engineering and sourcing organization and support them through recruiting, customer introductions and subsequent financings. \nFund operations and LP reporting\nQuarterly reporting to the LP, working with our fund administrator and the finance organization at MISUMI Americas. Portfolio and pipeline reporting for the investment committee. Ownership of the CRM and our data discipline. \nRequirements \nTwo to four years in venture capital, investment banking, management consulting, corporate development, or an operating role at a hardware or deep-tech company \nDemonstrated technical fluency in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, robotics, manufacturing or a related field highly preferred. You will be evaluating physical products and you need to be credible with the engineers building them \nStrong written communication. Memos, market analysis, and LP reporting constitute a large share of the work \nEstablished relationships in the venture, engineering or founder community a strong plus, or a clear plan for building them \nComfort operating without an existing playbook, at a fund making its first investments \nPreferred \nPrior exposure to hardware, robotics, aerospace, medtech or industrial automation, whether as an investor, engineer or operator \nFamiliarity with manufacturing, supply chain or design-for-manufacturing \nCompensation \nBase salary - $125K - $150K depending on experience\nCarried interest in the fund\nHealth, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k) \nOur partners have committed to market-standard economics for the fund, and that extends to the investment team. \nWe’re actively seeking teammates who:\nBring diverse perspectives and experience to our culture and company. \nExcel at being part of a strong, empathetic team.\nThrive in an environment emphasizing respect, honesty, collaboration, and growth.\nHave an ‘always learning’ mindset that celebrates learning, not just wins. \nHelp us continue to build a world-class organization that values the contributions of all of our teammates\nWe encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5318,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Manufacturing","Plastics & Polymers","Industrial Machinery"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-24T04:07:09Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":47,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-25T05:45:01Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":150000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/fictiv-investment-associate","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/fictiv-investment-associate.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-26T00:54:34Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":851,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4149,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-27T00:00:00Z"}}}