Executive Director – GP Solutions

Executive Director – GP Solutions

National Life Group’s investment arm, NLG Capital, seeks an Executive Director to join the GP Solutions team. The role focuses on sourcing, underwriting, and executing investments in private asset managers and developing insurance-optimized strategies to advance NLG Capital’s objectives.

• Underwrite and execute GP and platform-level investments in private asset managers.
• Structure and negotiate investments that provide governance rights, long‑term economic alignment, and access to proprietary pipelines.
• Drive post‑investment engagement to deepen relationships and unlock co‑investment and new product opportunities.
• Maintain a dynamic market map of the private asset ecosystem, focusing on M&A, minority stake opportunities, and capital formation trends.
• Identify high‑potential managers across private credit, real assets, and specialty finance.
• Partner with GPs to design differentiated, insurance‑optimized strategies in private credit, asset‑backed finance, and real estate.
• Assess business plans, platform growth strategies, and manager economics for alignment with NLG Capital’s risk‑return and liability‑matching objectives.
• Build a repeatable framework for seeding new products that meet insurance and institutional capital requirements.
• Work across legal, finance, and executive leadership to structure and close complex transactions.
• Represent NLG Capital externally with GPs, LPs, and other stakeholders, positioning the firm as a partner of choice in GP Solutions.
• Contribute to internal strategy, helping define NLG Capital’s differentiated role in the private markets ecosystem.

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 12+ years in private equity, private credit, investment banking, or asset‑management M&A.
• Strong preference for experience underwriting GP or platform‑level investments in credit, structured finance, or real assets.
• Familiarity with liability‑driven investing and insurance regulatory capital frameworks (plus).
• Exceptional skills in financial modeling, valuation, and transaction structuring.
• Ability to evaluate both manager‑level economics and platform‑level strategic value.
• Strong investment committee and presentation skills.
• Entrepreneurial, collaborative, and low‑ego approach.
• Proven ability to source, structure, and execute GP investments that deliver differentiated outcomes.

• MBA, CFA, or equivalent credentials.

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

$225,000 – $330,000 USD

The total compensation package may also include a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility, paid time off, and discretionary annual incentive programs). The employee will be in an at‑will position and National Life reserves the right to modify base salary and other benefits at any time.

National Life Group® is a trade name of National Life Insurance Company, Montpelier, VT – founded in 1848. National Life Group remains open for the Executive Director position and is accepting applications on an ongoing basis.

1 National Life Dr, Montpelier, VT 05604