Private Equity Partnerships, Associate

Stuut is transforming how B2B companies turn revenue into cash. Businesses worldwide have trillions tied up in receivables, yet the work between order and payment still relies on fragmented systems and labor-intensive manual processes. Stuut’s AI agent works across order management, credit, collections, payments, cash application, disputes and deductions, carrying context through every step. Customers reduce DSO by 47%, collect 40% more cash and eliminate 70% of manual work without replacing their ERP.

Stuut is already trusted by finance teams at companies including Honeywell, Medtronic and Zoom Info, from Fortune 10 enterprises to scaling mid-market businesses. We are backed by a16z, Khosla Ventures, Activant, 1984 Ventures, Page One and Microsoft.

Private Equity Partnerships, Associate

Stuut is transforming accounts receivable for old-school B2B companies, making collections smarter and faster for companies that historically relied on paper checks and spreadsheets. Our platform is gaining traction with finance teams across industrials, chemicals, and manufacturing sectors from Fortune 10 brands to scaling midmarkets. We have 150+ customers and we are backed by top-tier investors including a16z, Khosla, Activant, M12 (Microsoft), 1984 Ventures and Page One.

This is not a standard BDR job and we are not looking for a standard BDR.

Private equity is one of Stuut’s highest-converting channels. Sponsors have working-capital mandates, portfolio companies with real AR pain, and the ability to introduce us across an entire book  bottleneck is coverage: there are thousands of sponsors, tens of thousands of portfolio companies, and reading a portfolio well enough to know which three portcos actually have the problem we solve is analytical work, not list-pulling work.

That’s the job. You’ll own the top of the private equity funnel end to end: mapping sponsor books, triaging portfolios against our ICP, finding the operating partner or portco CFO who owns the problem, and getting the first meeting. You’ll work alongside our Head of Private Equity Partnerships, who takes the relationship from there, and you’ll graduate into running those conversations yourself as you ramp.

We think the right person is roughly two years into a finance career and wants out of the deal-execution seat: a deal sourcing or business development associate at a PE firm, an investment banking analyst, a transaction services analyst, or someone selling data and services into the sponsor community. You already know what an operating partner is, what a value creation plan does, and why a CFO at a newly-acquired industrial cares about DSO.

We are not going to teach you that. We will teach you how to sell.

Being straight with you about the trade: this is a sourcing and outreach role. You will send a lot of cold emails, you will hear no far more often than yes, and the first six months are grind. In exchange, you will build first-name relationships with operating partners and portfolio ops leaders across 100+ sponsors inside two years, which is more sponsor surface area than you would touch as an associate at a single fund.

People who are good at this become Managers on this team, move into PE business development, or go operate. We’d rather tell you that now than discover in month four that you wanted a different job.

• Map and tier sponsor books: which firms fit Stuut’s thesis, which portcos inside them have real order-to-cash pain, and which are noise. This is the analytical core of the role

• Find the right person at each target: operating partner, portfolio ops lead, portco CFO or Controller. Not the most senior name, the one who owns the problem

• Write and send the outreach. Cold email, Linked In, warm…