Vice President, M&A Origination

CSC Generation is the AI-native holding company re-engineering omnichannel retail. We acquire iconic brands and transform them with Genesis, our operating platform combining a Data Fabric, Automation Engine, proprietary tools, and shared services to modernize operations, elevate customer experience, and expand margins. With $1B+ in revenue across 13 brands, our portfolio includes Sur La Table, Backcountry, One Kings Lane, and others that serve as real-world innovation labs.

Reports to: Executive Leadership

Location: Los Angeles, California;
Austin, Texas, or Salt Lake City, UT
- Hybrid Required

Acquisitions are how CSC Generation grows, making the front end of the deal pipeline one of the most consequential functions in the company. As Vice President, M&A Origination
, you will set the strategy for where we look and why, build the relationships that produce proprietary opportunities, and surface businesses we would never have seen through a standard process.

Within your first year, success means a fully built origination engine—defined coverage markets, a growing proprietary pipeline, a systematized intermediary network, and qualified opportunities advancing through the investment process. You will work on a small, senior team where the person who found the deal is in the room when we decide to pursue it.

This is a lean team. You will own a lot, move fast, and make decisions with full end-to-end responsibility.

• Own the origination strategy end to end—size each market, map the universe of companies that fit CSC's acquisition criteria, identify new categories for expansion, and set the bolt-on strategy for existing platforms.
• Develop and defend a clear point of view on your sectors, including market trends, consolidation dynamics, buyer landscape, and clearing multiples.
• Scale the acquisition funnel by maintaining a current, comprehensive picture of target markets so no relevant business transacts without CSC knowing about it.
• Shape how coverage is divided across the origination team and how the function is structured, resourced, and measured as it grows.

• Source proprietary opportunities directly from owners, founders, and management teams before a formal process exists.
• Build and systematize the intermediary network—investment banks, corporate development teams, brokers, lenders, specialty-finance firms, and restructuring advisors—so CSC is the first call when an asset comes to market.
• Represent CSC credibly in conversations with owners, boards, and advisors, articulating what we would do with the business, what happens to their team, and why our offer will hold.

• Screen opportunities against investment criteria, build the initial commercial case, and present a clear recommendation to the investment team with market context, seller motivation, valuation, and risk.
• Stay with your deals through close—remain the relationship owner, step into the deal process wherever you add leverage, and contribute to deal documents as they take shape.
• Maintain pipeline discipline and reporting—coverage, conversion, activity, and relationship status—using modern sourcing, CRM, and AI tooling to extend reach.

• Design and run referral and external advisor programs so sourcing capacity scales faster than headcount.
• Develop junior origination talent and set the standard for how origination is executed across CSC.

• 10–15 years in private equity, investment banking, or a comparable principal-investing environment with business development or deal origination as a major component of the role.
• Track record of sourcing transactions that…