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- Represent State Farm and foster strong relationships with a variety of key external industry contacts including venture capital firms, startups, accelerators, incubators, universities, vendors and other organizations
- Build State Farm network in local ecosystems; benchmark best practices, and develop key critical relationships to enable future new business concepts
- Maintains awareness of industry direction related to architecture and technology solutions to ensure alignment with strategic enterprise roadmaps
- Maintains a high degree of business acumen and understanding of business area pain points, needs of end users and external customers and uses this knowledge to strategically forecast demand for new solutions and services
- Demonstrates appropriate level of knowledge and understanding of technology and/or business processes, enterprise risk activities, associated issues and alignment with our organizational strategies
- Consults with senior leaders regarding the relationship between external trends and company strategies
- Bachelor's Degree required, advanced degree and/or Financial Designation preferred
- 5+ years' experience venture investing at a venture capital/growth equity firm or in a corporate venture investing group; previous experience in investment banking or strategy consulting is a plus
- Strong ability to own activities to completion, while balancing focus across many competing priorities.
- Understanding of unique challenges of early stage businesses and start-up and corporate innovation best practices (processes, regulations, tools, etc.).
- A thoughtful and highly analytical mindset balanced with strong people skills to enable effective expression of well-informed viewpoints while positively representing State Farm Ventures in the market.
- Initiative to learn new things and create new value in a collaborative team environment
- Strong work ethic and demonstrated passion for the rapidly advancing technology landscape within and adjacent to financial services
- Ability to supervise, mentor, manage and develop talent
- Incredible Health and Welfare Benefits to include bonus programs like Teledoc, Livongo, Sword Health and Included Health
- Annual Incentive Bonus Potential
- Dedicated Personal Development time and company reimbursed professional development activities
- Generous PTO and a flexible work environment that empowers you to manage your time and workload
- Six weeks of Paid Parental Leave for birthing, non-birthing and/or adoptive parent(s).
- Adoption Expense Reimbursement up to $10,000
- 401K with generous company match
- FREE access to Sharecare, Lifeworks and Bright Horizons
- State Farm Foundation Matching Gift and Good Neighbor Grant Program
- Visit our Careers page for more information on our benefits, locations and the process of joining the State Farm team!
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