Careers

Full-time Position: 40+ hours per week, local preferred, remote optional.
Experience Level:  Graduate degree in engineering with 2 to 4 years of engineering work experience plus 1 to 2 years of venture investing experience, preferrably at a venture fund or 4 years of closely comparable experience, such as launching and running a technical venture developing hardware and raising capital for that venture, in or around the nuclear or energy sector.
Salary and Benefits:  Negotiable, adjusted for experience.
Timing of Hire:  Expected mid-2025.

Experience Required or Preferred:

• Know Nuclear: Have a deep knowledge of energy systems and specifically nuclear power with exceptional knowledge of the nuclear industry writ large, including aspects of industry regulation and operating protocols for nuclear fission, nuclear plant operations and/or maintenance. Have familiarity with a broad range of industry organizations, government entities such as national labs and funding groups, like GAIN, ARPA-E and ARDP, as well as know industry publications, conference and have connections therein.
• Know Venture Capital:  Experience sourcing and evaluating technology and tech ventures from both a technical and financial perspective and assessing them for factors pertaining to potential for commercial success. Understand entrepreneurship, business models and venture capital and how they pair up. You must have made prior venture capital investments and have been part of the decision-making process for commiting fund capital.
• Top Communicator:  Should have the ability to talk to anyone and build a rapport based upon mutual respect even as you are learning about a new innovation. Be able to both make a pitch to investors as well as evaluate pitches being made to you for integrity and accuracy. Be able to think on your feet, go with your gut, understand human motives and, most importantly, be able to smell bullshit almost instinctively. Know FOMO and when to walk away.

If you have the above experience and described skills we would love to connect, even if you are not quite ready to make a change. Let’s talk. There are not too many people out there with these skills but we are taking our time and looking to hire the right person when we find them. You will help us build Nucleation Capital into a bigger and more successful fund, so we are open to discussing ownership shares for long-term participation by the right person.

Part-time Position: 10 to 20 hours per week, local preferred, remote optional.
Experience Level:  College graduate with 2 or more years of marketing experience preferred.
Hourly Salary:  Approximately $40/hour, adjusted for experience.

Skills Required or Preferred:

• Experience using LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and other social media channels and various social media support applications.
• Strong writing and editing skills, with an ability to adjust writing for various contexts and purposes to craft compelling messages.
• Should have the ability to create appealing communications and marketing campaigns
• Should have a good design sense and be able to generate formats appropriate for the specific media in use.  An ability to design professional graphics a plus.
• Needs to be able to use software applications like WordPress, Word, Excel, Power Point, Google Docs/Sheets, Canva, Midjourney, Typefully, Make and similar alternatives.
• Knowledge of SEO optimization highly preferred.
• Knowledge of nuclear, familiarity with the nuclear industry, industry organizations and entities and terminology a strong plus.
• Experience with Airtable, AngelList, Brevo, Canva, Carta, OpenAI, Pitchbook and other applications a plus.
• Detail oriented and scrupulous about accuracy and diligence.
• Be a self-starter, who is well-organized, able to prioritize and manage multiple tasks, who is motivated to learn and figure things through research and asking questions.
• Having an interest in building skills in investing, venture capital and technology platforms that accelerate work a plus.

The Marketing Associate will work with the team to conduct communications and spread the word about the fund over social media. We will develop an overall marketing plan and design the necessary elements required by the plan. You will also help us create support materials for outreach to prospective investors, portfolio ventures and the broader community.

Nucleation Capital is looking for support keeping up with new venture formation and financings in the areas of advanced nuclear and deep decarbonization innovation, two areas that are growing rapidly.  If you have access to any of the ventures active in these sectors, we would like to invite you to work with us.  Here’s how it works.

You find and connect with a venture that fits our thesis and you get to know them. When the venture is ready to to raise capital, you introduce them to us and we will review the team and their pitch deck and evaluate them for possible investment. If we agree that it is a promising prospect, we can then offer to help them raise capital through our pronuclear investor network and syndicate. If they agree to that, you will then produce a deal memo and we will float a syndicate to help them raise capital. Depending upon your level of experience and contribution to creating the deal memo and promoting the SPV, we will provide you with a share of the carried interest fee earned from the successful exit of this venture. 

There are two ways that you can work with us to bring us potential deals and earn participation on the success of the ventures you bring:

1. Venture Associate: Ideal for young professionals with technical knowledge keen to learn how to help ventures raise capital. This is a part-time position that requires only that you have some spare time to devote to meeting new teams and making introductions. You’ll get training and guidance on how to find and connect with new ventures, create deal memos and engage with potential LPs.

2. Ventury Ally: For professionals who are well connected, want to help worthy ventures raise capital and would like to simply make introductions of worthy teams. We invite you to become a Venture Ally and we will manage the syndicate process internally. In exchange for your introduction, you will be entitled to participate as an LP in any syndicate that we float for a venture that you introduce without paying carried interest.

This is an incredible opportunity for those keen to learn the ins and outs of the venture capital industry and for those who are deeply connected into the start-up world to help to help build stronger ventures. Learn more here about this opportunity to join Nucleation’s syndication team.