Private Equity Partnerships, Associate

Stuut•New York, NY

1d•$110,000 - $150,000

About The Position

This is a sourcing and outreach role owning the top of Stuut’s private equity partnerships funnel end to end. The Associate maps and evaluates sponsor books, identifies portfolio companies with order-to-cash challenges, finds the operating partner or portfolio-company finance leader who owns the problem, and secures initial meetings. The role works alongside the Head of PE Partnerships, who takes relationships forward, with the opportunity to run first meetings independently as the Associate ramps. The position combines analytical portfolio research with high-volume outreach. It is not a standard BDR role: the Associate is expected to understand private equity and sponsor-to-portfolio-company dynamics, form a defensible view of which businesses fit Stuut’s ideal customer profile, and write tailored outreach. The first six months are described as a grind involving frequent cold emails and rejection. Over time, the role offers exposure to operating partners and portfolio operations leaders across more than 100 sponsors, with potential paths to Manager roles on the team, PE business development, or operating roles. The Associate also supports live deals, sponsor meetings, conference preparation, and portfolio reviews; maintains the PE channel in HubSpot; develops repeatable and AI-assisted portfolio research workflows; and shares insights on which sponsors, portfolio-company profiles, and messaging approaches convert.

Requirements

Roughly 1 to 3 years of experience in private equity deal sourcing or business development, investment banking, growth equity, venture capital, transaction services, or selling into the sponsor community.
Understanding of fund structures, hold periods, value creation plans, and sponsor-to-portfolio-company dynamics sufficient to hold an informed conversation with an operating partner.
Ability to assess a portfolio and quickly identify which companies are likely to have the problem Stuut solves, with a defensible rationale.
Strong, concise writing skills and the ability to create specific, personalized cold outreach.
Comfort with frequent rejection and persistence in work where most responses are negative.
Existing use of AI to accelerate research and an interest in building workflows rather than repeating manual tasks.
Willingness to learn commercial skills, receive coaching directly, and be candid about areas of uncertainty.

Responsibilities

Map and tier private equity sponsor books, identifying firms that fit Stuut’s thesis and portfolio companies with relevant order-to-cash challenges.
Identify the appropriate contact at each target, such as an operating partner, portfolio operations lead, portfolio-company CFO, or Controller.
Write and send tailored outreach through cold email, LinkedIn, and warm introductions via existing sponsor relationships and reference customers.
Book and prepare first meetings for the Head of PE Partnerships, including written briefs on the sponsor, portfolio-company thesis, and meeting angle.
Run first meetings independently as experience grows, starting with lower-tier sponsors.
Translate customer outcomes into language relevant to private equity firms and support customer data analyses for portfolio review check-ins.
Maintain HubSpot records for the PE channel, including firm records, portfolio-company associations, deal-sourcing attribution, and stage tracking.
Build repeatable portfolio research processes, including AI-assisted workflows, and automate recurring manual research where appropriate.
Conduct account and portfolio research for live deals, sponsor meetings, and conference preparation.
Report patterns in sponsor conversion, portfolio-company buyer profiles, and effective outreach angles.