Private Equity Partnerships, Associate at Stuut AI · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

This is not a standard BDR job and we are not looking for a standard BDR.
Private equity is one of Stuut’s highest-converting channels. Sponsors have working-capital mandates, portfolio companies with real AR pain, and the ability to introduce us across an entire book at once. The bottleneck is coverage: there are thousands of sponsors, tens of thousands of portfolio companies, and reading a portfolio well enough to know which three portcos actually have the problem we solve is analytical work, not list-pulling work.
That’s the job. You’ll own the top of the private equity funnel end to end: mapping sponsor books, triaging portfolios against our ICP, finding the operating partner or portco CFO who owns the problem, and getting the first meeting. You’ll work alongside our Head of Private Equity Partnerships, who takes the relationship from there, and you’ll graduate into running those conversations yourself as you ramp.
We think the right person is roughly two years into a finance career and wants out of the deal-execution seat: a deal sourcing or business development associate at a PE firm, an investment banking analyst, a transaction services analyst, or someone selling data and services into the sponsor community. You already know what an operating partner is, what a value creation plan does, and why a CFO at a newly-acquired industrial cares about DSO. We are not going to teach you that. We will teach you how to sell.
Being straight with you about the trade: this is a sourcing and outreach role. You will send a lot of cold emails, you will hear no far more often than yes, and the first six months are grind. In exchange, you will build first-name relationships with operating partners and portfolio ops leaders across 100+ sponsors inside two years, which is more sponsor surface area than you would touch as an associate at a single fund. People who are good at this become Managers on this team, move into PE business development, or go operate. We’d rather tell you that now than discover in month four that you wanted a different job.
Map and tier sponsor books: which firms fit Stuut’s thesis, which portcos inside them have real order-to-cash pain, and which are noise. This is the analytical core of the role
Find the right person at each target: operating partner, portfolio ops lead, portco CFO or Controller. Not the most senior name, the one who owns the problem
Write and send the outreach. Cold email, LinkedIn, warm paths through our existing sponsor relationships and reference customers. You write your own copy; we do not use a template library
Book and prep first meetings for the Head of PE Partnerships, with a written brief on the sponsor, the portco thesis, and the specific angle
Run first meetings yourself as you ramp, starting with lower-tier sponsors, working up
Translate customer outcomes into language that private equity firms care about, and support customer data analyses as part of portfolio review check-ins.
Own HubSpot hygiene for the PE channel: firm records, portco associations, deal sourcing attribution, and stage tracking. If it isn’t in HubSpot correctly it didn’t happen

Private Equity Partnerships, Associate

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Stuut AI

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