Investor Relations Manager.

Alpha Drop Ventures is building the standard layer for cultural commerce. At the center is DROPZ, our core platform. Around it sit the brands we build and own, like Cipher Noir, which set the bar for what credible culture-led product looks like. One ecosystem, one standard, many surfaces. We are pre-launch, pre-revenue, and raising our Seed round. The infrastructure is built, the team is in place, and the story is real. We need someone to make sure the right people hear it.

The Role

You own the investor side of the business. Finding the right capital, building the right relationships, preparing the right materials, and keeping every conversation moving with intent. This is not a support role. You initiate, you own, and you drive.

• Build and maintain a qualified pipeline of VCs, angel investors, family offices, and strategic backers aligned to our stage, sector, and story

• Initiate outreach and first conversations independently, representing the company with clarity and conviction before the founder enters the room

• Manage existing investor relationships with the same discipline as new ones, keeping backers informed, engaged, and warm through structured updates and regular touchpoints

• Own the preparation of all investor-facing materials including pitch decks, one-pagers, data rooms, and financial summaries, working with internal support for content and design

• Drive the Seed round process end to end, tracking conversations, managing timelines, following up persistently, and keeping the pipeline from stalling

• Identify gaps in how the company is being positioned or presented to investors and fix them before they cost a conversation

• Work directly with the founder daily, keeping the process tight, decisions informed, and priorities clear

What This Actually Is

This is a founding team role. That means more than a title.

• You are working on the most consequential process in the company right now. Every conversation you initiate, every deck you send, and every relationship you build either moves the round forward or does not

• You will operate in a pre-revenue environment where the story, the team, and the vision are the product. You need to be comfortable selling something that does not yet have a number behind it

• You work closely with the founder but you do not wait for direction on every step. You see what needs to move and you move it

• Feedback is direct and unfiltered. You hear clearly when something is off and when it lands, and you are expected to handle both calmly

If you are looking for a structured IR role inside an established company with a defined process and a warm pipeline handed to you, this is the wrong room, and that is fine.

How We Build And What Sets You Apart

We are here to build something, not make noise around something. We hold a high bar and we hold it together. The role gets you hired. This is what makes you matter here.

• You treat every investor conversation as a representation of the company at its highest standard, because it is

• You build the pipeline before anyone asks where it stands, and you already know which conversations need to move this week

• You prepare materials that are sharp, honest, and specific, not templated decks with generic market slides

• You follow up with persistence and taste, knowing the difference between staying present and becoming noise

• No passive feedback, no dropped context, no low effort with an excuse attached

• When a conversation stalls, you diagnose why and fix it. When a deck is not landing, you rewrite it before the next meeting

• You protect the company's positioning in every interaction, because how we show up to investors shapes how the company is perceived long after the round closes

• Going above and beyond is not about hours. It is about caring more precisely than the task requires, and treating the Seed round like the foundation it actually is

Who You Are

• Experience working on the fundraising side at a startup, with direct involvement in investor outreach, relationship management, and materials preparation

• Have been part of a round that closed, either as the person driving it or as a close collaborator in the process

• Able to initiate and hold investor conversations independently, with the clarity and confidence to represent an early-stage company without leaning on the founder for every interaction

• Strong writer and communicator who can prepare pitch decks, one-pagers, and investor updates that are sharp, specific, and built around a real narrative

• Organised with pipelines, timelines, and follow-ups, keeping the process visible and moving without things slipping through

• Comfortable operating in a pre-revenue environment where conviction, story, and team quality are the primary instruments

• Genuinely interested in company building, not just fundraising mechanics. You want to be part of what gets built with the capital, not just help close the round

Build with us. Do not perform for us.