Investor (Chapel Hill)
LionLight Capital
LionLight Capital, L.P. is a private equity firm headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. We partner with exceptional management teams to build category-leading businesses in durable growth industries. Our investors consist of leading university endowments, foundations, operating executives, and family offices who bring capital, operating experience, and relationships to our portfolio companies. The team has deep expertise and networks in financial services and tech-enabled professional services. LionLight's founder previously helped establish and scale prior firm to $2.5 billion of AUM.
THE ROLE
We are hiring a Senior Associate (title based on experience) to join LionLight's core investment team. On a lean team you will take real ownership across the full investment lifecycle and work directly with the firm's leadership, management teams, and investors. Responsibilities include:
- Execution: Drive diligence and execution on new investments and inorganic growth opportunities. This includes financial modeling and valuation, commercial and operational diligence, managing third-party advisors, structuring, and debt financing processes.
- Investment committee materials: Craft investment memos and present recommendations to the investment committee.
- Value creation: Work with portfolio company management teams to build and carry out value-creation plans, including add-on M&A, KPI and reporting development, strategic initiatives, and financing and recapitalization activities.
- Industry sector work: Thematic research and thesis building around prioritized sectors and sub-sectors.
- Firm building: Help shape LionLight's processes, tools, recruiting and culture as the firm grows.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Passionate about investing and building businesses
- 2–3 years of investment banking or top-tier management consulting experience, followed by 1–3+ years of private equity investing experience
- Strong financial modeling and valuation skills, with the judgment to connect the analysis to an investment thesis
- Hands-on experience across deal cycles and portfolio company value creation initiatives
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with the polish to earn the trust of founders, executives and investors
- An entrepreneurial self-starter who does well with autonomy and is excited to help build a firm
- Financial services industry experience is a plus
- Team player that is ready to work hard and have fun
WHY LIONLIGHT
- Early seat at a growing firm, with direct exposure to decision-making and a clear path to more responsibility
- Meaningful ownership of deals and portfolio relationships from day one
- Competitive compensation, including co-investment and carried interest
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