Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy- Alternative Investments

Our client, a rapidly growing financial services, investment, and technology organization operating across private markets and alternative investments, is seeking a Vice President of Corporate Development & Strategy to help shape and execute the company’s next phase of growth.

This role is particularly well suited for someone who brings direct experience within alternative investments or private markets, combined with strong strategic, investment, and transaction capabilities. The successful candidate should understand the alternatives ecosystem from an investment, portfolio, or fund perspective- not solely from an investment banking or transaction-advisory lens.

Relevant backgrounds may include fund-of-funds, secondaries, GP stakes, co-investments, private equity, private credit, private real assets, alternative investment portfolio management, investment strategy, or broader private-markets investing.

The individual will work closely with senior executives to evaluate new markets, investment capabilities, strategic partnerships, minority investments, potential acquisitions, and other growth opportunities. The role combines investment judgment, strategic evaluation, and transaction execution, with meaningful exposure to senior leadership and multiple areas of the organization.

• Evaluate potential growth opportunities across private markets and alternative investments, including new investment capabilities, products, partnerships, minority investments, strategic investments, and acquisitions.
• Assess opportunities through both a strategic and investment lens, including market attractiveness, investment rationale, competitive positioning, portfolio implications, economics, and potential returns.
• Conduct detailed research across alternative-investment markets, managers, strategies, fund structures, and emerging areas of opportunity.
• Evaluate fund managers, investment platforms, portfolios, GP relationships, co-investment opportunities, secondary transactions, and other private-market opportunities, as relevant.
• Develop business cases and recommendations around new markets, investment strategies, products, strategic initiatives, and potential transactions.
• Perform financial analysis, valuation, scenario modeling, return analysis, and other quantitative work required to evaluate investment and strategic opportunities.
• Support and manage transaction and investment diligence across financial, commercial, investment, operational, legal, and other work streams.
• Partner with internal investment, finance, legal, product, and commercial teams, as well as external advisors and counter parties, to move opportunities from initial assessment through decision and execution.
• Monitor developments across private equity, private credit, real assets, secondaries, co-investments, GP stakes, and other alternative-investment markets.
• Translate complex investment and market analysis into clear recommendations for senior leadership.
• Prepare investment memoranda, executive presentations, strategic plans, market assessments, financial analyses, and decision materials.
• Work across functions to drive alignment around high-priority strategic and investment initiatives.
• Help establish appropriate KPIs and measurement frameworks for major strategic programs and new initiatives.
• Manage multiple complex projects and investment opportunities simultaneously.
• Lead select strategic projects on behalf of senior leadership.
• Utilize appropriate technology, AI, and automation tools to improve research, investment analysis, diligence, and execution.

• 8+ years of relevant professional experience, with meaningful direct exposure to alternative investments or private markets.
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