New Ventures Group AG is a Zurich-based venture capital company focused on early-stage
investments at pre-seed and seed level. We support innovative businesses with capital and
strategic, financial and operational expertise.
Your responsibilities
- Capital markets and financing structures: Design, structure and implement bonds, other
- financing instruments and investment structures from a legal perspective; prepare and review
- the related issuance, contractual and investor documentation.
- Executive leadership: Lead the strategic and operational development of New Ventures
- Instruments AG, including business development, partnerships, processes and financial
- performance.
- Regulation and compliance: Assess the requirements relevant to products and business
- models, and coordinate with external specialists, banks and other partners.
- Corporate law and transactions: Advise on ownership structures, financing rounds and
- corporate governance; draft, review and negotiate agreements in German and English.
- Employment law: Provide supplementary advice on employment contracts, remuneration and
- equity participation schemes, executive and board agreements, and terminations; coordinate
- external counsel on disputes and proceedings.
- Commercial advice: Work closely with management, the investment team and portfolio
- companies to develop legally sound and commercially viable solutions.
- Your profile
- A law degree; admission to the Swiss bar or an equivalent qualification is an advantage.
- Strong knowledge and practical experience in capital markets and financial regulatory law,
- supported by sound corporate and contract law expertise.
- Experience with securities issuances, financing instruments, investment structures or
- comparable transactions.
- Sound knowledge of Swiss employment law and the ability to handle ongoing employment
- matters pragmatically.
- An entrepreneurial mindset, commercial judgement and a willingness to take operational
- responsibility and accountability for results.
- Leadership experience or a demonstrated ability to build and lead a business.
- An independent, structured and pragmatic approach with a strong focus on execution;
- excellent written and spoken German and English.
What we offer
- A combined legal and executive leadership role at 50-70% of a full-time position.
- Equity participation in New Ventures Instruments AG under an individually agreed ownership
- arrangement.
- Substantial scope to shape the company and develop its financing offering.
- Direct collaboration with group leadership, short decision-making processes and exposure to
- venture capital investments, capital markets transactions and growth projects.
- Hybrid working in Zurich Paradeplatz and a long-term working relationship.
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