Sr Associate, Capital

Rippleworks Foundation believes all people should have equitable access to the resources and opportunities to live life to the fullest. Our mission is to provide the practical support entrepreneurs and their teams need to scale faster and improve more lives. Rippleworks’ programs have directly supported 260 ventures by running 400 custom advisory projects across 60 countries, running workshops for over 1,600+ leaders and deploying more than over $270 million in unrestricted funding to help these ventures grow. 

We are a mission-driven team dedicated to helping impactful ventures thrive. Our goal is to create the best possible workplace for purpose-driven professionals to make an outsized difference in the world—learning, growing, and having fun together along the way.

Rippleworks has been named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (by Fast Company) and one of the world’s Best Workplaces for Innovators (by Fast Company and Accenture)

We support our portfolio of Ventures in 4 ways:

Projects: Short-term, high-impact engagements where social ventures work with leading executives to tackle top operational priorities

Expert Office Hours: Specialized, contextually relevant advice for ventures

Leaders Studio: Expert-led learning programs where leaders gain critical skills ventures need to deliver impact at scale.

Capital: Flexible, hard-to-find capital required for scale (grants and loans)

We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to improving diversity, equity, and inclusion at Rippleworks. Rippleworks is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. Rippleworks also complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please email christina@rippleworks.org.

Hiring Key Dates:

- Applications Open: September 22, 2025 

- Applications Closed: October 3, 2025

- Interviews occurring: October 15 - November 7, 2025

The Rippleworks Capital team is responsible for deploying ~$70 million annually. The Senior Associate will play a key role on the Rippleworks Capital team, contributing to the execution of our venture-friendly, equitable investment process that evaluates and recommends impactful grant and debt investments. This role is designed to further develop expertise in social impact investing and philanthropy, while making meaningful contributions to the team’s objectives. The Senior Associate will work in close collaboration with the team, taking ownership of defined workstreams and supporting the execution of the team’s strategy.

Specifically, you will:

• Support the Capital team across sourcing, diligence, portfolio management, and monitoring.
• Assist in the development of materials and analyses to support the team’s efforts in piloting and executing new products and services for the investment portfolio.
• Contribute to diligence and portfolio management by conducting research and coordinating with aligned investors, referral partners, and ventures.
• Manage the monitoring process and support in collecting, organizing, and analyzing portfolio data to inform learnings and strengthen venture progress toward impact goals.
• Contribute to team operations and organizational initiatives that advance Rippleworks’ mission and culture.

Competencies for this role: 

• Business Insight: You are developing knowledge of social impact models and markets. You actively research, listen, and ask questions to understand venture challenges, and you apply these learnings to support the Capital team’s work.
• Decision Quality: You make smart, thoughtful decisions with limited information. You are a strong critical thinker, and you are able to walk someone else through your thought process in a clear and concise way. You seek guidance when priorities compete and communicate openly about your workload.
• Instill Trust: You gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity, and you always follow through on commitments. 
• Effective Communication: You communicate clearly and respectfully, listen actively, and adapt messages to ensure understanding across different audiences. You distill ambiguous information and data into simple and clear written materials. 

Core competencies for all Rippleworks employees

• Ventures First: Deeply understands venture needs in order to design and deliver exceptional value to our venture partners through the experts who support them. 
• Learn Forward: Continuously and actively learns through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as growth opportunities.
• Connect with Care: Engages our global community with curiosity and kindness across roles and levels, backgrounds, and geographies to cultivate trust, inclusivity, belonging, and collaborative success rooted in both empathy and fairness.
• Progress over Perfection: Navigates dynamic, changing situations and makes decisions or creates a path forward even with imperfect or incomplete information
• Be an Owner: Reliably executes and takes initiative to deliver high-quality work and impact with care and tenacity. Evolve solutions that best serve ventures, Rippleworks, and the broader team. 

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of relevant work experience, with at least two years of experience supporting a social impact investment portfolio (e.g., supporting the due diligence process to make investment recommendations) 
• Experience building authentic relationships with key stakeholders and knowledge of the social impact ecosystem
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, including experience interacting with impact investors and social venture leaders
• Strong organizational, analytical, and research skills (including strong comfort monitoring portfolio data and working with financial and non-financial data)
• Track record of executing and delivering quality results

• Competitive Compensation & Benefits: Earn a salary of $131,000.00 with robust benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, 401(k) + employer match, holidays, flexible PTO, wellness, and remote-work stipends. While Rippleworks has one global salary structure, the salary listed here reflects employees on US payroll. To keep total rewards equitable across countries, salaries may be adjusted if hiring in a country where employer-paid compulsory benefits are significantly more robust and costly than in the US.
• Global Engagement: Travel opportunities to connect with the social impact ecosystem and experience Rippleworks' impact firsthand. Extend work trips through our Study Abroad Program for regional exploration.
• Giving Back: Participate in our Community Grants program, awarding $50K to a nonprofit of your choice, plus a $2,500 charitable donation match for financial or volunteer contributions.
• Growth-Oriented Culture: Access professional coaching, a generous learning budget, and regular team learning events to support personal and professional development.
• Flexible Remote-First Environment: Enjoy flexible work hours, remote-first stipends, and meaningful virtual and in-person connections through Core Collaboration Weeks (2–3 times per year).
• Sabbatical Benefit: After five years, take four weeks off for rest, travel, or personal exploration to refresh and reenergize.