Director or Managing Director - Debt Capital Markets - FIntech

I have been retained by a venture-backed specialty finance company to lead the search for its most senior capital origination hire. The company provides collateralized credit facilities secured by GPU and data center infrastructure, offering capital providers exposure to income-producing compute assets — effectively transforming compute capacity into a bankable asset class.

The platform is Series A+ funded by leading venture and digital asset investors, with announced strategic partnerships including a major global payments company. The founding team draws senior experience from top-tier credit, trading, and digital asset institutions, and has built financial products that have facilitated hundreds of millions of dollars in transaction volume across diverse asset types. The organization is deliberately flat, with a culture that rewards results and rapid execution.

This is the company's highest hiring priority. The successful candidate will lead a $1.5B capital raise, working directly with the founding team and representing the platform to the capital markets. The role carries full ownership of strategy, relationships, and outcomes, with scope to build the capital formation function as the platform scales.

• Lead the full institutional capital origination pipeline — targeting, initial engagement, structuring, due diligence, close, and ongoing relationship management — both directly and through placement and syndication partners
• Deepen an established base of crypto-native funds and high-net-worth individuals, where typical conversations range from $50M to $250M, while driving strategic expansion into traditional institutional capital: private credit funds, warehouse lenders, global banks, family offices, and alternative asset managers
• Own and drive the build-out of warehouse lines and private credit facilities that fund the platform's lending activity, secured by GPU and data center infrastructure and asset-level cashflows
• Shepherd the company through deep institutional credit review — running the due-diligence processes private credit funds, warehouse lenders, and bank credit teams require, and assembling, organizing, and presenting the loan‑level data, documentation, and narrative their credit teams and investment committees need to approve a facility
• Lead structuring, negotiation, and closing of credit facilities, and support formation of the syndicates behind them
• Work closely with the founding team and the originations function — active participants in these processes — to source the loan-level data, documentation, and narrative credit reviewers require
• Advise the founding team on positioning, structure, pricing, covenants, advance rates, and investor appetite
• Develop a deep working knowledge of the platform's lending, collateral, and yield mechanics, sufficient to speak credibly with sophisticated institutional credit counter parties
• Maintain a clean, current pipeline (CRM) with accurate deal stages, contact notes, and forecasted facility sizes and timelines, and feed market intelligence back to the team — what credit committees are asking for, what structures and terms providers want, and what's moving in institutional credit right now
• Coordinate with compliance, legal, and onboarding to keep KYC/AML and facility documentation moving
• Recruit and manage a junior analyst supporting pipeline execution and investor materials
• Represent the platform at industry conferences, summits, and lender and investor events

• A demonstrated track record of originating or leading $250M+ in institutional capital commitments across private credit, asset-backed finance, structured credit, or fund placement
• 7+ years in capital…