We're hiring someone to build relationships across private equity and turn them into customers — funds, their operating and value-creation teams, and the portfolio companies they own.
In practice that means coffees, lunches, dinners, introductions. You can also run the engagements you bring in and work with customers directly — PE-backed portfolio companies with real problems and real data. It's the part most people find addictive. You'd see AI doing actual work inside an operating business: a year's worth of contracts becoming clean, cited data in Salesforce; a stalled M&A integration finally moving.
The people who do well here come from private equity or from within a value creation team. That's what earns the conversation — you've sat on a deal team, run an integration, or owned a function when the data was a mess, so you can talk about the problem the way the buyer actually experiences it.
We're the data transformation partner for PE-backed portcos. We turn the documents a business is buried in into clean, trusted data in the systems it runs on — and, harder, we get the organization to actually adopt it.
The work we get called in for:
How we do it:
What that's looked like in practice:
One sponsor owns hundreds of companies with the same problem. One win is how we get the next twenty.
1. Relationships — the core of it. Build and work a network across private equity: operating and value-creation teams, EIRs, deal teams, and the CFOs and COOs of the companies they own. Catch up with the people you already know, get introduced to the ones you don't, and go to the cities where they are. Turn those conversations into customers — a portfolio company with dirty contract data, a stalled M&A integration, a vendor implementation that failed, an ERP that doesn't reconcile.
2. Engagements — optional, and encouraged. Run the work you bring in as the engagement manager: sit with the customer, scope the problem, direct our engineers, own the outcome. You don't have to, and the commission reflects the choice. It's also the fastest way to get better at part one — being able to describe exactly what broke at the last portfolio company, and how we fixed it, is what makes the next conversation land.
3. Building the practice — over time. AI and data transformation inside the portfolio is one of the largest unmet needs in private equity, and there's very little credible, first-hand writing on it. Publish, speak, host dinners, help us start a podcast. If you want to build out a line of business — the CFO practice, say — we'll hire under you and you'll own that book.
You spent time in private equity. A deal team, an operating or value-creation team, or a function you ran inside a portfolio company. That's what earns the conversation — you can talk about the problem the way the buyer experiences it, not the way a vendor pitches it.
You have a deep network across private equity. People who reply to your texts / are your friends. Ideally it runs across:
And the rest:
ProSights is a data / AI transformation partner to PE-backed portcos.
Salary
$175,000 - $225,000
Equity
0.25% - 0.75%
Location
New York, NY
Experience
6+ years
Total raised
$2.7M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.