Founding Business Lead
Owns delivery of AI-powered commercial due diligence projects for top PE funds, managing client relationships, overseeing AI agent outputs for expert interviews and reports, and partnering with engineering on product improvements. Requires 3-6 years in MBB, PE, or IB with CDD experience.
About the job
What You'll Do
- Own project delivery across multiple simultaneous CDD engagements, from kickoff through final report
- Manage client relationships day-to-day
- Coordinate expert sourcing across expert networks
- Work closely with our AI systems to oversee interviews, analysis and synthesis to ensure coverage against client briefs
- Partner with our engineering team to translate client and operational insights into product improvements
- Build and refine internal processes and templates that improve delivery quality and speed
- Collaborate with the founding team on product feedback
What We're Looking For
- 3–6 years of experience at an MBB firm, in private equity, or in investment banking
- Experience with commercial due diligence — you understand the methodology, the client expectations, and what separates a good CDD from a great one
- Track record of managing complex, deadline-driven workstreams with multiple stakeholders
- Exceptional written and verbal communication
- High attention to detail — you catch errors others miss and hold your work to an exceptionally high bar
- High ownership mentality: you spot problems early and solve them independently
- Genuine curiosity about AI and its implications for knowledge work — you should be excited about working at the cutting edge of how AI is transforming research and analysis
- Start-up mentality — you're energized by ownership, speed, and variety; equally comfortable shaping strategy and handling the unglamorous work that comes with building something from the ground up
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building structure where there isn't any
Skills
AI Agents, Commercial Due Diligence, Expert Networks, Client Management, Project Delivery, Ai Systems, Cdd Reports, Stakeholder Management, Process Improvement
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