Principal

About the Role
  
Our client is a venture and company-building platform focused on creating and supporting businesses that address significant consumer challenges. Working alongside ambitious founders and operators, the organization identifies compelling market opportunities, develops new business concepts, invests in high-potential companies, and supports them through growth and scale.
They are seeking a Principal to play a senior role across investment, venture creation, and portfolio development. This individual will identify attractive markets and emerging opportunities, evaluate potential investments and new business concepts, and work closely with founders and leadership teams to translate ambitious ideas into scalable companies.
Operating at the intersection of investing, strategy, and entrepreneurship, the Principal will combine rigorous commercial judgment with a hands-on approach to company building. This role will involve developing investment theses, leading diligence, building relationships across the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and serving as a strategic partner to founders and portfolio company executives.
  
Key Responsibilities

• Identify, research, and develop investment and company-building opportunities across large and evolving consumer markets.
• Develop investment theses around emerging trends, changing consumer behaviors, underserved needs, and structural market opportunities.
• Source and evaluate prospective investments, founders, business concepts, and strategic opportunities.
• Lead commercial and strategic due diligence, including market sizing, competitive analysis, business model assessment, unit economics, customer research, and evaluation of growth potential.
• Build financial and analytical frameworks to assess opportunities, key assumptions, risks, potential outcomes, and investment returns.
• Prepare investment recommendations and communicate findings clearly and persuasively to senior stakeholders.
• Work closely with founders and internal teams to validate new concepts, refine business models, develop go-to-market strategies, and establish priorities for execution.
• Partner with portfolio company leadership teams on strategic initiatives spanning growth, product, commercialization, organizational development, partnerships, and fundraising.
• Build trusted relationships with entrepreneurs, executives, investors, industry experts, and other participants across the venture ecosystem.
• Support transaction execution, including investment structuring, negotiations, diligence coordination, and closing processes.
• Monitor portfolio performance, identify emerging opportunities and risks, and support leadership teams in addressing critical strategic and operational priorities.
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and high-performance culture.

Requirements

• Significant professional experience in venture capital, growth investing, private equity, investment banking, strategy consulting, corporate development, startups, or a similarly relevant environment.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating businesses, markets, or investment opportunities, with strong commercial and strategic judgment.
• Strong understanding of early-stage company development and the key drivers of successful, scalable businesses.
• Excellent analytical capabilities, including financial analysis, market assessment, business model evaluation, and quantitative problem-solving.
• Ability to develop an independent point of view from incomplete information and make sound decisions in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Experience working directly with founders, senior executives, investors, or other senior stakeholders.
• Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to develop and maintain a high-quality professional network.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex analysis into clear recommendations.
• High degree of ownership, intellectual curiosity, resourcefulness, and attention to detail.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a willingness to move beyond analysis and contribute directly to company-building and execution.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously in a dynamic, high-accountability environment.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience; an advanced degree may be beneficial but is not required.