Portfolio Analyst, Platform Team

About the Role:

What You’ll Do:

• Work with portfolio company CEOs to identify where AI can drive growth, improve execution, or create operating leverage
• Build practical AI-enabled tools, workflows, automations, prompts, agents, and playbooks that can be used across portfolio companies
• Help portfolio companies embed AI into GTM, sales enablement, customer research, marketing, recruiting, finance, product research, and internal operations
• Evaluate new AI tools and platforms, determine where they are useful, and help teams adopt them where there is a clear business case
• Create reusable templates and workflows that allow learnings from one portfolio company to compound across the broader UP.Labs ecosystem
• Track adoption and effectiveness of AI tools, refine what works, and cut what does not

• Partner directly with portfolio CEOs to understand company priorities, operating constraints, growth opportunities, and areas where platform support can help
• Help CEOs pressure-test AI use cases, operating cadence, reporting needs, GTM execution, hiring priorities, and company-level risks
• Support portfolio companies with practical execution where needed, including research, synthesis, tooling, process design, investor preparation, and customer or advisor mapping
• Translate messy company needs into clear recommendations, action plans, workflows, introductions, or escalation points
• Serve as a hands-on platform partner who helps CEOs move faster without adding unnecessary process

• Build and maintain the systems UP.Labs uses to monitor portfolio company health across financial, commercial, product, talent, and operational metrics
• Track key indicators including burn, runway, revenue, pipeline, customer traction, product milestones, hiring, and operating cadence
• Create dashboards, reporting cadences, and operating reviews that give UP.Labs leadership a clear view into company progress, risks, and support needs
• Identify risks early and help route the right support before issues become urgent
• Prepare and improve materials for UP.Labs leadership, portfolio company boards, corporate partners, and other key stakeholders
• Build templates and best practices for board reporting, company updates, milestone tracking, operating reviews, and escalation of key issues
• Help standardize governance practices across the portfolio without creating administrative drag

• Build and maintain relationships across the VC community to support portfolio companies with capital access, market insight, customer introductions, and strategic advice
• Develop a broader network of operators, advisors, strategic partners, and domain experts who can help portfolio companies grow
• Represent UP.Labs and its portfolio companies in relevant investor, startup, and industry settings
• Attend select VC, startup, and industry events on behalf of UP.Labs and the portfolio
• Partner with marketing and internal teams on targeted events, dinners, and gatherings that connect portfolio CEOs with relevant investors, customers, advisors, and operators
• Turn external relationships into tangible value for portfolio companies, including investor conversations, customer introductions, advisor relationships, strategic partnerships, and market feedback

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of experience in venture platform, startup operations, AI operations, BizOps, product operations, consulting, venture capital, or an early-stage company-building role
• AI-native and hands-on; you have built practical AI-enabled tools, workflows, automations, or internal systems, not just talked about AI strategy
• Comfortable working with LLMs, AI productivity tools, automation platforms, no-code/low-code systems, data tools, and APIs
• Strong enough analytically to understand company performance, operating metrics, burn, runway, pipeline, growth levers, and portfolio health
• Externally credible and relationship-oriented; you can build trust with VCs, founders, operators, advisors, and strategic partners
• Comfortable representing UP.Labs and its portfolio companies in investor, startup, and industry settings
• Operational enough to sit with a CEO, diagnose what is slowing the company down, and help build the system, workflow, or relationship path to solve it
• Strong written communicator who can synthesize messy inputs into clear updates, board materials, leadership summaries, and decision memos
• Comfortable moving between hands-on AI work, CEO support, portfolio reporting, governance, relationship-building, and events
• Interested in enterprise software, industrial markets, transportation, logistics, aviation, manufacturing, energy, and other complex B2B verticals
• High tolerance for ambiguity; you are energized by building the playbook, not inheriting one