Strategic Finance & Investments Lead

Job Description

Job Description

Position Overview

LaunchEd is an education-focused incubator and accelerator created by RDI to identify, support, and scale innovative companies serving the PK-12 market. As our portfolio grows, we are expanding our investment capability to evaluate, structure, and execute investments, partnerships, and acquisitions that strengthen the education ecosystem.

As the Strategic Finance & Investments Lead, you will lead the financial evaluation and execution of strategic transactions across LaunchEd's portfolio. Working closely with the Founder/CEO and senior leadership, you will build financial models, structure investments and acquisitions, conduct due diligence, and guide transactions from initial opportunity through closing.

This is a high-impact role for an investment professional who enjoys combining analytical rigor with entrepreneurial thinking to help build and grow innovative education companies.

Key Responsibilities:

Deal Structuring & Financial Analysis

• Lead financial evaluation of investment opportunities incubator and accelerator participants.
• Build and maintain financial models to evaluate investments, acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships.
• Support decision-making with valuation frameworks and scenario analyses.
• Structure transactions including minority investments, majority acquisitions, recapitalizations, and joint ventures.
• Analyze complex financial arrangements and help leadership understand the risks, economics, and potential outcomes of proposed deals.

Transaction Leadership

• Manage the end-to-end execution of transactions from initial evaluation to closing.
• Coordinate financial, operational, and market diligence for prospective investments or acquisitions.
• Work closely with legal counsel to help translate business terms into investment agreements and transaction documents.
• Participate in negotiations with founders, investors, and counterparties.
• Support the structuring and execution of special situations such as investor buyouts, recapitalizations, or strategic mergers.

Strategic Investment Support

• Evaluate strategic opportunities connected to the organization's ecosystem, including potential acquisitions or partnerships that could strengthen the platform.
• Assist RDI leadership and the founder/CEO in analyzing proprietary opportunities that arise within the education sector.
• Support the development of repeatable approaches for structuring investments as LaunchEd continues to expand its portfolio of companies.

Requirements

• 5–10 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, corporate development, or a similar transaction-focused role.
• Strong financial modeling and valuation skills with experience analyzing complex business transactions.
• Experience supporting or leading acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, or other strategic transactions.
• Ability to translate complex financial structures into clear explanations for non-financial stakeholders.
• Experience working with legal and financial advisors during transaction execution.

Personal Attributes

• Entrepreneurial mindset with interest in building a growing investment capability inside an innovation platform.

• Strong analytical thinker with practical deal judgment.

• Comfortable operating with ambiguity while structuring new types of transactions.

• Collaborative and able to work closely with senior leadership on complex strategic decisions.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary + performance incentives
• Professional development opportunities