Vice President

Our Client is a lower middle market private equity firm based in New York City that makes both minority growth and control investments in partnership with high-quality executives through its “Executive-First” investment strategy.

The firm invests in companies with EBITDA ranging from $3 million to $20 million across a broad range of industries (including B2B, Industrials, Niche Manufacturing, Healthcare and more) with a particular focus on businesses with repeat or recurring revenues. They invest a committed capital fund, comprised of top-tier institutional and sophisticated private investors.

What this Role Offers:

• A full Partner Track Position
• Exposure to senior team through hands-on approach to entire deal life cycle
• Interaction with top-tier institutional investors and private LPs
• Opportunity for carried interest at Senior Associate Level

What this Role Requires

• Sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities
• Conducting due diligence of potential investment opportunities
• Leading deal execution including managing 3rd party service providers and taking a leadership role in the documentation process
• Portfolio monitoring
• Developing trusted relationships and working with management
• Evaluating add-on opportunities
• Managing and training the firms junior employees
• Sourcing and evaluating prospective CEOs

The Ideal Candidate:

• Minimum of four-five years with a private equity firm
• Bachelor’s degree from a top tier university
• Strong work ethic and initiative – self starter
• Meaningful experience executing closed platform transactions and working with portfolio companies and starting to lead deals
• Experience with proactive investment thesis development a plus
• High level of intellectual curiosity and passion for growth within the firm
• Ability to multitask and work with multiple people
• Entrepreneurial spirit
• High level of maturity
• Strong financial modeling, accounting and due diligence skills
• Ability to analyze a wide variety of different business models
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong communicator internally as well as with advisors, management teams and financing sources
• Experience managing and training junior staff a plus