Senior Vice President of Sales

The Senior Vice President of Distribution is a senior commercial leader responsible for accelerating growth and strengthening our position with investors, consultants, financial intermediaries, and strategic distribution partners. Working closely with the CEO, CIO, investment leadership, and external product partners, this executive will shape and execute the firm's distribution strategy while remaining directly engaged in originating, advancing, and closing high-value opportunities.

This role requires a credible investment storyteller, disciplined business builder, and collaborative leader who can translate sophisticated research and portfolio concepts into clear client outcomes. The successful candidate will pair an established network and demonstrated fundraising record with the judgment, resilience, and hands‑on approach needed in an entrepreneurial asset‑management environment.

• Partner with the CEO and investment leadership to define and execute a focused global distribution strategy, including channel priorities, target markets, revenue goals, and resource allocation.
• Own new‑business development across institutional and intermediary channels, with particular emphasis on plan sponsors, consultants and OCIOs, endowments and foundations, RIAs, family offices, and other sophisticated allocators.
• Build and deepen senior‑level relationships with key decision makers including staff, trustees, field consultants, and research analysts at major consulting firms.
• Develop a high‑quality pipeline, establish clear pursuit strategies, maintain disciplined forecasting, and drive opportunities from initial engagement through due diligence, negotiation, funding, and ongoing relationship development.
• Represent Syzygy's investment capabilities with authority, clearly communicating the firm's research, market perspectives, systematic equity and multi‑asset strategies, portfolio construction, and differentiated value proposition.
• Coordinate closely with research, investments, marketing, operations, legal and compliance, and external product providers to deliver a consistent and responsive client experience.
• Bring market intelligence and client feedback into firmwide decisions regarding product positioning, product development, messaging, competitive strategy, and commercial priorities.
• Strengthen the firm's distribution infrastructure, including segmentation, CRM discipline, reporting, sales materials, consultant databases, and measurement of commercial activity and outcomes.
• Help develop and mentor distribution talent and contribute to the future design and growth of the commercial organization.
• Serve as a visible representative of Syzygy at client meetings, industry conferences, consultant events, and other market‑facing forums; travel extensively as business needs require.

• Fifteen or more years of progressive experience in asset‑management distribution, institutional business development, capital raising, or a closely related client‑facing leadership role.
• Demonstrated success raising and retaining assets from sophisticated investors, with a record of converting long‑cycle opportunities into durable client relationships.
• Established relationships across relevant institutional, consultant, OCIO, intermediary, and allocator communities.
• Strong investment fluency, preferably including quantitative or systematic equities, multi‑asset strategies, factor investing, alternatives, or related portfolio solutions.
• Executive presence and exceptional presentation, written, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to make complex research accessible without oversimplifying it.
• Commercial judgment, analytical rigor, and disciplined use of pipeline data,…