Crane Venture Partners
Head of the Crane Network
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Location: London, UK or SF Bay Area
Team: Founder Value
Reports To: CMO & Founder Value
About Crane
Crane is the global inception-to-seed platform for synthesist founders.
We back extraordinary founders from the very beginning, wherever they are in the world, who bring together ideas, technologies and disciplines in unexpected ways to build the companies that shape the future, and what comes next.
At Crane, we are first to believe and last to leave. We stay alongside founders as they turn an idea into a company, a company into a category, and early conviction into something enduring.
The Opportunity
The Head of the Crane Network will build and activate an extraordinary global network around Crane and its founders.
A critical part of Crane's Founder Value team, you will connect founders to the customers, executives, operators, advisors, and strategic partners who can materially accelerate their companies.
This is a senior global leadership role for someone with the reputation, judgment and relationships to engage credibly with leading founders, Fortune 500 executives, technology leaders across the United States and Europe, and increasingly APAC, India and beyond.
The successful candidate will bring significant existing relationship capital, particularly in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, while continuing to build Crane's reach across the world's most important technology ecosystems.
How You Will Create Impact
Build and Activate Crane's Global Network
Develop a highly curated global network across North America, Europe, APAC, India and beyond.
Build and deepen senior relationships with founders and CEOs, Fortune 500 executives, enterprise technology buyers, operators, board members, and influential leaders across technology and business. Represent Crane with humility, authority, discretion and credibility. Look beyond the obvious institutions, relationships and geographies to identify extraordinary people and bring them into the Crane community.
Create Material Outcomes for Founders
Turn relationships into meaningful company outcomes.
Help founders access:
- Enterprise customers and design partners.
- Strategic partnerships.
- Senior advisors and board candidates.
- Executive talent.
- Geographic expansion opportunities.
- Market and industry expertise.
- Experienced founders and peer perspectives.
Connect Crane's Global Ecosystem
Play a central role in strengthening Crane's relationships in the United States, with particular emphasis on New York, San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
Bring equally strong credibility and relationships across the UK and European technology landscape.
Connect European founders to U.S. customers, executives and investors. Bring U.S. leaders into Crane's European ecosystem. Build bridges across APAC, India and other emerging technology centers.
Help make Crane one genuinely global platform rather than a collection of regional networks.
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Advise Founders and Sharpen the Ask
Work directly with founders and CEOs to understand their most important commercial, strategic and relationship needs.
Help determine where Crane's network can genuinely make a difference, who should be involved and what outcome we are trying to create.
Challenge a founder's thinking when needed, improve the quality of the ask and make sure founders are prepared before important relationships are activated.
Know the difference between an impressive introduction and a useful one, and when the right answer isn't another introduction at all.
Convene the People Who Matter
Play a critical role in Crane's most important global gatherings and executive experiences, including Crane Festival, founder and CEO engagements, executive roundtables, industry councils, operator gatherings and regional programs.
These aren't events for events' sake.
They are opportunities to create conversations, relationships and opportunities that would not otherwise happen.
Help determine who should be in the room, why bringing them together matters and what should result.
Partner Across Founder Value
Work closely with Crane's other Founder Value capabilities:
- Office of the Chief of Staff
- Talent
- Brand & Content
- Venture Partners
Who You Are
An Experienced Senior Leader
You have substantial experience operating at executive, partner, managing director or equivalent seniority and are accustomed to working with founders, CEOs, boards, investors and senior enterprise leaders.
You have led important relationships, ecosystems or commercial initiatives across multiple geographies.
Exceptional Relationship Capital
You have spent years building trusted relationships with senior people across technology and business.
People take your calls because they respect your judgment. Senior leaders introduce you to other senior leaders.
Your relationships are built on trust, relevance and consistent value, not transactions.
Deeply Connected in San Francisco and Silicon Valley
You have a deep, current and trusted network in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
That network includes founders, CEOs, enterprise executives, customers, operators, investors, board members and other leaders capable of creating meaningful opportunities for Crane founders.
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Connected Across the UK and Europe
You also bring strong senior relationships and credibility across the UK and European technology ecosystem.
You understand these markets and can naturally connect people and opportunities between Europe and the United States.
Global Perspective
You think globally by default.
You understand that founders, markets, customers, talent and capital increasingly operate across borders.
You are culturally fluent, internationally experienced and comfortable representing Crane around the world.
Executive Credibility & High EQ
You can host a private CEO dinner, engage a Fortune 500 executive, advise an early-stage founder and represent Crane in important external settings.
You are confident without being performative, build trust quickly and understand how to develop relationships without making them feel transactional.
Commercial and Strategic Judgment
You understand how early-stage companies grow and how relationships can accelerate that growth.
You can quickly assess whether a prospective customer, partner, advisor, executive or investor is genuinely relevant to a founder's priorities.
You know when to make an introduction, and when not to.
Technology and Venture Fluency
You understand early-stage technology companies, enterprise software and the venture ecosystem.
You can engage credibly with deeply technical founders working across AI, infrastructure, semiconductors, developer technologies, enterprise systems and other foundational technologies.
You don't need to be a technical specialist. You do need to be intellectually curious about the technologies shaping what comes next.
Builder and Leader
You can build a function, not simply operate a network.
You can turn individual relationships into an enduring Crane capability while preserving the personal trust that makes those relationships valuable.
What We Offer
A senior global leadership role at the heart of Crane's Founder Value organization.
The opportunity to work directly with extraordinary founders from their earliest days.
The mandate to build one of Crane's defining global capabilities.
A central role in Crane's continued international expansion.
The opportunity to create relationships that become customers, partnerships, hires, advisors, investors and defining opportunities for founders.
A global community of founders, investors, executives, operators and experts.
Competitive compensation, performance incentives and comprehensive benefits.
Crane is an equal opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive, high-performance culture.
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