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Hiring in Private Equity

Fund-side investment hiring and portfolio-company leadership searches on one workspace, with deal, sector and value-creation evidence extracted from the CV.

Role families we cover

  • Investment team

    Fund-side deal execution and portfolio monitoring.

    Investment analysts and associates · Vice presidents · Principals and partners · Sector heads

  • Portfolio operations

    Operating partners embedded across the portfolio.

    Operating partners · Value creation directors · Transformation leads · Commercial excellence leads

  • Portfolio leadership

    C-suite hires placed directly into portfolio companies.

    Portfolio CEOs and GMs · Portfolio CFOs and finance directors · Portfolio COOs · Interim executives

  • Fund operations

    Non-investment functions supporting the fund.

    Fund controllers · Investor relations · Fund operations and compliance · ESG and impact leads

What makes this sector hard

  • Deal and sector evidence

    PE CVs need to show the deals actually worked on and the sector depth behind them. Our rubric extracts deal roles, cheque sizes and sector coverage — not just firm names.

  • Fund vs portfolio context

    Investment-team hires and portfolio-company operators need different signals. We build the rubric per mandate instead of treating both as the same search.

  • Confidentiality and discretion

    Every mandate sits in a private workspace scoped to the sponsor. Candidate context stays inside the search it was collected for.

  • Operator credibility under time pressure

    Portfolio CEOs and CFOs are hired against a hold-period clock. Rubrics weight the specific operating levers pulled — pricing, working capital, add-on integration — over generic leadership language.

The evidence we score against

Every candidate is scored against the role's rubric, and every score points back to a specific line in the CV. For private equity, these are the signals that carry weight:

  • Deal and sector evidence extracted
  • Rubric per fund or portfolio mandate
  • Private workspace per requisition

What your shortlist looks like

  1. A ranked set of candidates, each with a score and the evidence behind it.
  2. Eligibility checks resolved before the candidate reaches you — right to work, credentials, location model.
  3. Salary expectation against your band, stated plainly, before you invest interview time.
  4. One decision per candidate: advance, hold or decline, reversible for a short window.

Candidates stay invisible to you until we've reviewed them for your specific role, and contact details are released as a separate step.