PXN Group
Investment Manager / Senior Investment Manager
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Company Description
PXN Group is the fastest-growing venture and investment business outside London, bringing together Praetura Ventures and Par Equity to back the most ambitious companies across the UK. With offices in Edinburgh, Manchester, Leeds, and London, PXN Group delivers over ten investment programmes spanning Institutional Funding, VCT, EIS, Business Relief, and Natural Capital. We back ambitious founders through PXN Ventures and serve financial advisers and retail investors through PXN Investments. We are proud to have one of the strongest performance track records in the sector.
The Opportunity
Scotland and the wider North of England are home to some of the UK's most exciting early-stage technology companies: world-class universities, deep engineering talent, and a growing community of ambitious founders. PXN Ventures is the institutional, hands-on investor built to back them, and our Edinburgh office is in an exciting period of growth.
This hire is part of our deliberate scale-up of the Edinburgh team. We are building out our local presence and investing in the people who will define how PXN Ventures shows up in Scotland and the North for the next decade. If you want to join a platform at an inflection point and help shape what it becomes, this is that opportunity.
We are looking for an Investment Manager or Senior Investment Manager to join us in Edinburgh, covering Scotland and the wider North. You will source deals, lead investments end-to-end, sit on boards, and become a trusted name across the founder and investor ecosystem.
Critically, this role comes with a breadth of mandate that is genuinely rare in UK venture. As part of PXN Ventures you will invest across Institutional Funding, VCT, and EIS programmes, at stages from pre-seed through early Series A, and across deep tech, enterprise software, hardware, climate technology, and life sciences. Very few investor roles in the UK offer that range.
This is not a support role. You own your pipeline, your relationships, and your deals from day one. The level of appointment reflects your experience:
- Investment Manager: lead investments with senior support, build your track record quickly
- Senior Investment Manager: full autonomy and delegated authority, lead development of junior colleagues, visible leadership role in how PXN Ventures shows up in the market
About PXN Ventures
PXN Ventures backs exceptional founders at pre-seed, seed, and early Series A. We invest across deep tech, enterprise software, hardware, climate technology, and life sciences, with a particular strength in university and research spinouts. Our portfolio spans more than 115 companies across the UK.
We are active investors: board representation on every investment, genuine operational support, and a long-term commitment to the companies we back. Founders choose PXN for the network and the team, not just the capital. Our success stories span exits such as Street Group (the UK's leading property portal) and Current Health (acquired by Best Buy), through to portfolio companies that regularly rank among the fastest-growing companies in Europe, including Modern Milkman, Phlo, and Aveni.
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Role Description
Reporting to the Investment Director, you will:
- Source and build a proprietary deal pipeline across Scotland and the North, identifying high-potential companies early
- Lead investments end-to-end: financial modelling, due diligence, deal structuring, term sheet negotiation, and legal execution through to close
- Represent PXN on portfolio company boards: lead meetings, support founders on strategy, and drive value between sessions
- Build relationships across the ecosystem: co-investors, angels, accelerators, university TTOs, and founder communities
- Coach and mentor junior colleagues
- Lead knowledge-sharing sessions for the wider investment team
- Support PXN Ventures fundraising activity including investor presentations and events (Senior IM)
Office-based in Edinburgh, with regular travel across PXN offices and portfolio companies.
What we are looking for
We are looking for someone with two to six years of experience in venture capital, growth equity, private equity, investment banking, management consulting, or corporate and commercial law, with direct involvement in early-stage deal-making.
We also actively welcome experienced operators, founders, and technologists ready to bring that perspective to the investor seat: whether you have led a company, built a product, or served as a CTO or senior technical leader in a high-growth environment, that background is genuinely valued here.
A technical or scientific background in engineering, computer science, physics, life sciences, or a related STEM discipline is advantageous given PXN's focus on research-intensive and spinout companies.
Beyond background, what matters is:
- A genuine passion for early-stage investing and a deep curiosity about technology, founders, and the problems they are solving
- Strong financial analysis skills and the ability to form clear, well-reasoned investment views
- A natural presence in founder and investor communities: you enjoy being out meeting people, you build trust quickly, and founders and co-investors gravitate toward you because of who you are, not just the capital you represent
- Warmth, emotional intelligence, and outstanding interpersonal skills; relationships are built on genuine interest in the people across the table, not just the transaction
- An entrepreneurial mindset and the confidence to operate with initiative and autonomy
- High integrity, a positive and collaborative attitude, and sound commercial judgement
- AI fluency: we expect our investors to be genuinely AI-native, actively using AI tools to enhance research, analysis, and productivity. Whether you have built your own agents, automated parts of your workflow, or developed sharp intuitions about where AI creates and destroys value in the companies you back, we want to see real engagement with the technology
At Senior IM level, you will additionally bring a track record of leading complex transactions autonomously and confidence in board environments.
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Role Competencies (Job Scorecard)
- Dealmaker. Hits the ground running. Negotiates term sheets, manages legal processes, and earns a place on competitive deals through deep founder trust and excellent execution.
- Passion for the North. Motivated by PXN's mission. Communicates "Why PXN" compellingly to founders, ecosystem partners, and co-investors. Actively invested in building PXN Ventures' presence and community across Scotland and the North.
- Relationships. Creates and leads relationships built on trust with founders, co-investors, advisors, and colleagues.
- Leadership. Acts as a business owner, taking accountability beyond their own deal activity and driving culture consistent with PXN values.
- Analytical. Draws insightful conclusions from qualitative and quantitative data. Forms independent views and articulates investment theses clearly and convincingly.
- People Development. Coaches and mentors junior colleagues with genuine investment in their progression.
- Board Representation. Leads board meetings with confidence and commercial acumen. Holds portfolio companies accountable and adds value between meetings.
- Efficient and Decisive. Strong judgement on where to invest time. Makes quick, focused decisions without letting process get in the way of momentum.
- Strategic Judgement (Senior IM). Exercises sound, independent judgement on investment decisions. Balances conviction with commercial discipline.
- Fundraising and Investor Relations (Senior IM). Builds credibility with prospective investors and supports fundraising through presentations and investor events.
Why choose PXN?
- A platform in genuine scale-up mode: our Edinburgh team is growing and this hire is central to those plans
- Unmatched breadth of mandate: invest across Institutional Funding, VCT, and EIS, from pre-seed through early Series A, across deep tech, hardware, software, climate, and life sciences; no other VC role in the UK offers this range
- Real deal ownership from day one: you lead investments, hold board seats, and build your own network
- 115+ portfolio companies and strong momentum following the Praetura and Par Equity merger, with one of the strongest performance track records in the sector
- A team that invests in each other: honest feedback, genuine coaching, high standards, and humility
- Edinburgh and the North are among the most exciting places in the UK to be a venture investor right now
Benefits
- Competitive salary and performance bonus
- Up to 10% employer pension contributions
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Christmas shutdown, and birthday leave
- Private healthcare
- Volunteering days
- Charity donation matching
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Electric car scheme
- Death in service benefit
- Personal development plan with training budget
- Regular staff socials
- Free office snacks and drinks
- Employee share incentive plan
- 6 months maternity leave full pay; 4 weeks paternity leave full pay
If you have any questions, please email andrew.noble@pxngroup.co.uk.
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