Financial & Investor Relations Director

Financial & Investor Relations Director at GK Media Group | Lens About GK Media Group GK Media Group builds Lens. Lens is the credibility infrastructure for information. Our product is the Information Quality Standard (IQS) — a transparent, auditable, real-time, article-level credibility score. Media is our first vertical. The roadmap covers ten more over the next decade, anywhere consensus and credibility are the bottleneck. We are New York based and founder-led. In seed negotiations currently. SECTION 2 The role The Financial & Investor Relations Director sources family-office and UHNW capital, runs intake, advances diligence, and closes checks in the $100k–$2M range. You report to Jeff Maxon, President & CFO, and partner with James on positioning and the broader finance team on diligence. You own the segment end-to-end. Your first ninety days set the pipeline for the year. SECTION 3 Responsibilities Build and own a sourced pipeline of family offices and UHNW principals, segmented by check size, sector affinity, and decision-velocity. Run outbound directly — personalized, peer-tone, no spray. Outbound is your craft. You run it yourself. Take intake calls and qualifying conversations; route serious interest into a structured diligence path; close the relationship-management loop on the rest with discipline. Maintain pipeline hygiene in our CRM and investor data room. Every contact, every conversation, every commitment, version-stamped and current. Prepare materials for prospect meetings — one-pagers, tailored decks, financial summaries — in coordination with the finance team and the founder. Manage diligence requests end-to-end: collect the asks, route to the right internal owner, ship back inside the SLA the family office expects. Hold the relationship between rounds. Family-office capital compounds across rounds when the relationship is held warm; you are the person who holds it. Represent GK Media Group / Lens in early in-person meetings in New York and on the family-office circuit (selective travel as deals warrant). Surface market intelligence from your conversations back into the founder's strategy loop — which families are deploying into what theses right now, what's deal-killing in our category, what comparables are getting traction. Maintain strict confidentiality and compartmentalization on all investor-side information. We treat investor identities, check sizes, and pipeline state as Tier 1 sensitive. Coordinate with legal on subscription documents, side letters, and KYC/AML on the family-office side. Build and continuously refresh a target list of 50–150 named family offices and UHNW individuals you personally believe you can move through the funnel. SECTION 4 Must-have qualifications 3+ years in investor relations, fundraising, capital introduction, or investment banking (M&A, ECM, or private-capital coverage). Startup capital-raising experience, or venture-capital background, is key. You have been close to a private round, and you understand how founder narrative drives capital decisions at this stage. A demonstrable network of capital relationships you can name and explain — investors, allocators, advisers, gatekeepers. Generic "I know people in finance" does not clear the bar. We will ask you to name names in the interview, under NDA where appropriate. The ability to build and explain a 30 / 90 / 180-day plan for penetrating a target market — concrete numbers, named industries, stated outreach mechanics. Hard requirement and the centerpiece of the application. Excellent written and verbal communication, peer-tone with sophisticated allocators. No startup-bro energy. No "I hope this finds you well." We treat principals as peers, not as marks. Discretion. You will see Tier 1 information on day one — investor names, deal terms, valuation conversations. Information leakage is a category-ending failure in our world. Comfort working at seed-stage pace inside a founder-led company. We move fast; you have to move with us. SECTION 5 Nice-to-have qualifications Direct exposure to family-office and UHNW capital — multi-family offices, single-family offices, or named UHNW principals. Accelerates the ramp; we can build network from a strong base, but if you arrive with one already that's a real edge. Series 7 / 63 / 65 or equivalent — useful, not required, depending on how you structure intros. Direct experience selling into the media or information-services sector — you'll be telling our credibility-infrastructure story to allocators whose families often have media holdings, so a fluent vocabulary in the category accelerates the ramp. Experience with placement-agent or capital-introduction firms (Atlantic-Pacific, Mercury, or boutique equivalents). Existing relationships at multi-family offices in New York, Miami, or Greenwich — places we expect to focus the first ninety days. Spanish, Portuguese, or Mandarin fluency for cross-border family-office work. Compensation BASE SALARY: $120,000 – $150,000, depending on experience and network density COMMISSION: Tied to closed capital — graduated rate stepping up at quarterly thresholds (terms shared at offer stage) EQUITY: Seed-stage equity grant included. Specific allocation shared at offer stage; standard four-year vest with one-year cliff. SECTION 7 How to apply Send the following to jeff.maxon@lens.cx with the subject line "Financial & IR Director — [Your Name]". Resume. One page preferred, two acceptable. A written 30 / 90 / 180-day plan specific to GK Media Group / Lens. We want a plan that names the industry verticals you would penetrate first, the number of clients you believe you can close in each window, and the concrete outreach mechanics you would use. Example shape: Day 0–30: "I will spend the first thirty days educating myself on Lens / IQS and re engaging the following named close contacts: [list]. My target by end of day 30 is X qualified intake conversations." Day 30–90: "I will aim to close my first commitment in the [industry] family-office segment by end of day 90, based on the following named pipeline: [list]." Day 90–180: "I will broaden to [industry-2 and industry-3], targeting [N] additional closes by end of day 180." A short note (250 words or fewer) on your reach: which investors, allocators, or principals you have a working relationship with that you could call inside the first thirty days. Describe the shape of your network in concrete terms — sectors, sizes, geographies, decision-velocity. Disclose what you can; we respect what you can't. We will read every plan that comes in. Plans that are abstract — that talk about "strategic outreach" and "building relationships" without specific numbers, named industries, or named contacts — will not advance. Plans that show concrete reach will get a call within 72 hours.