Senior IR Manager

Reports to: Director (or Managing Director, where no Director is yet in place)
Service line: Investor Relations
Location: Remote
Comp band: $135,000–$160,000

Who We Are

Strut Consulting partners with venture capital firms to deliver operational expertise and strategic guidance to catalyze success at each stage of growth.

Strut is the preeminent venture capital consulting firm, delivering unparalleled expertise to venture capital firms across the spectrum—from emerging to established—throughout the United States and internationally.

Founded in 2016, we are an essential cornerstone for fund managers, empowering them to maximize impact while optimizing resources. Our team of high-caliber operations, finance, and investor relations experts helps VCs catalyze exceptional performance and strategic advancement.

What We Do

Strut serves as a strategic partner to venture firms across finance, operations, investor relations, and beyond. Our fractional model allows clients to access high-caliber talent and expertise across the full lifecycle of fund management — from fund formation through deployment, reporting, and long-term firm building.

The Role

As a Senior Manager within Strut's Investor Relations practice, you lead a pod covering a portfolio of venture capital clients. This is the person Managers turn to for judgment calls, and the person GPs turn to when a fundraising or LP question is bigger than the next quarterly update.

The Senior Manager stays two steps ahead of the client. They're Strut's pattern-recognition layer for the relationship. This person starts piecing together the bigger picture across an engagement, connecting this week's work to where the client's fund or firm needs to be operationally, and pushing them toward running a more efficient, better-organized business rather than just executing the task in front of them.

They run the higher-stakes client conversations (Managers keep the standard ones), lead a pod of Managers and offshore staff (Auxilians), and hold a seat that balances hands‑on billable work with oversight weighted toward execution today, and is expected to shift further toward oversight as their pod grows. Senior Managers elevate what they see to Directors (or Managing Directors, where no Director sits above them yet) for client‑level calls (staffing, pricing, scope) rather than acting on that judgment alone.

Key Responsibilities

1. Client Strategy, Thought Partnership & Pattern Recognition

Serve as a strategic thought partner to clients on their service function, not just executing what's asked, but shaping how that function should work as the client's fund matures

Build and refine the operating system around a client’s IR function, including LP segmentation, pipeline strategy, communication cadence, fundraising process, reporting infrastructure, data‑room readiness, and investor experience

Piece together the bigger picture across an engagement: connect what's happening this week to where the client's fund or firm needs to be operationally in 6–12 months, and bring that forward proactively rather than waiting to be asked

Run higher‑stakes client conversations, including renewal risk, scope changes, sensitive relationship moments, escalations, while Managers continue to own standard meetings

Synthesize ambiguous or incomplete information into a clear point of view: what is happening, why it matters, the available options, and the recommended path forward

Actively watch for patterns across the portfolio of engagements they oversee: signals a single Manager wouldn't see because they're only looking at one client

Escalate strategic or portfolio‑level signals to Director (or Managing Director) with a clear recommendation attached — staffing, pricing, and scope decisions are the…