Managing Partner & President, Private Equity Growth & Strategy

Urrly • Phoenix, AZ

1d • $150,000 - $200,000 • Remote

About The Position

Urrly is building the talent infrastructure that lower-middle-market private equity firms need when critical hires directly impact growth, margin, execution, and enterprise value. This is a company-building ownership role for someone who can win trusted private equity relationships, convert those relationships into revenue, learn our search model from the inside out, and help scale Urrly into the modern hiring platform sponsors and portfolio companies use for critical leadership and functional hires. This is not a conventional executive search partner role, a narrow business development seat, or a polished president role inside a mature company. You will help build the machine while carrying real commercial and operating responsibility. The right person brings PE credibility, revenue ownership, talent judgment, AI fluency, and the builder energy required to scale something from the ground up.

High-stakes hiring is still too slow, too manual, too expensive, and too dependent on weak signals. That problem is especially painful in lower-middle-market private equity, where one strong or weak leadership hire can materially change the trajectory of a portfolio company. Urrly’s first wedge is value-creation search: critical leadership and functional hires that help PE-backed companies execute faster, professionalize the business, improve operating discipline, and create enterprise value. Over time, the ambition is bigger than executive search. We are building toward a hiring platform that combines high-trust human judgment with AI-enabled speed, structure, and signal.

Requirements

• Combine PE fluency, commercial ownership, operating judgment, talent judgment, and builder energy.
• Consistently interfaced with lower-middle-market PE GPs, operating partners, deal team members, portfolio operations leaders, talent leaders, portfolio-company executives, or similarly sophisticated business buyers.
• Clear evidence that you can create opportunities, open relationships, expand accounts, convert trust into revenue, and carry meaningful commercial responsibility.
• Judgment and willingness to learn the workflow deeply.
• Ability to define the work, understand what value creation actually requires, assess signal, calibrate clients, and help both sides move with confidence.
• Ability to speak in business-outcome language.
• Understand how leadership, systems, GTM, finance, operations, talent, AI, and execution affect enterprise value.
• AI Fluency: Using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar systems frequently enough that AI leverage is part of how you work, learn, research, synthesize, assess, and build.
• Builder Mindset: Energized by ambiguity, responsibility, pressure, and upside.
• Willingness to write outreach, review candidates, run calls, build pipeline, attend conferences, diagnose process problems, and do the unglamorous work required to build something excellent.

Nice To Haves

• Relevant backgrounds may include private equity-facing consulting, commercial diligence, GTM, operations improvement, transformation, investment banking, sponsor coverage, human capital, portfolio talent, retained search, talent advisory, or professional services growth.

Responsibilities

• Own the growth and operating strategy for Urrly’s private equity business.
• Build trusted sponsor and portfolio-company relationships.
• Convert those relationships into signed work.
• Shape the commercial model.
• Sharpen the category narrative.
• Help build the delivery engine required to scale beyond founder-led execution.
• Get close to the work: intake, role definition, candidate assessment, client calibration, and selected searches.
• Graduate toward PE relationship ownership, executive-level search strategy, account growth, team development, operating leverage, and building a repeatable delivery engine.

Benefits

• Significant equity designed to reflect the company-building nature of the seat.
• Real ownership role, not a conventional mature-company executive package.
• True Managing Partner & President mandate.
• Can grow into broader company leadership over time based on demonstrated impact.
• Response within 24 hours.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed