M&A Research Analyst

M&A Research Analyst

Alpha Current Partners, LLC

Location
:
St. Louis, MO (in-person preferred; open to hybrid or remote)

Position Type:
Full-Time, Permanent

Level
: M&A Research Analyst (responsibilities and compensation scale with experience and demonstrated capability)

Reports To
:
Managing Partner

Alpha Current Partners is a buy-side M&A origination and advisory firm focused on proprietary deal sourcing for lower middle market private equity clients. We operate exclusively across essential, non-discretionary, and mission-critical industries: B2B services, industrial and infrastructure, and non-discretionary consumer services. Our founding team brings decades of senior-level M&A experience and a track record spanning 500+ transactions and $3.5B+ in enterprise value.

Our edge is proprietary, off-market deal flow, and the quality of the research and outreach that produces it. We are a small, ambitious team that would rather build the better way than inherit the old one. We are deliberately AI-forward, building proprietary tools and workflows that most firms in our market have not. We pair institutional-grade data platforms with frontier AI, including Claude, across sourcing, automation, and internal operations.

We have the energy and upside of a startup, with the discipline and resources of a team that has built and closed deals at scale before.

This role is responsible for the research that drives our clients' acquisition pipelines: identifying, profiling, and qualifying private companies against specific investment theses. The work is hands‑on and requires careful judgment, accuracy, and persistence. This is a research role and does not involve financial modeling.

You will also help improve how that research gets done by using AI, scripting, automation, and internal tools to make our processes faster, more accurate, and more scalable. Initially, the role will be weighted heavily toward live research and target identification. As you develop, you will take on greater responsibility for methodology, workflow design, and the systems that become part of our proprietary research stack.

You are not expected to arrive knowing how to do everything. The people who thrive here are relentless learners who research unfamiliar problems, test solutions, learn from failure, and keep working until they find an answer. We value curiosity, resourcefulness, and demonstrated ability more than a perfect checklist of prior experience.

Alpha Current operates through two core teams:
Research and Origination. Research identifies and qualifies companies;
Origination engages business owners directly to confirm fit and develop opportunities. Both are equally important to how we win. This position sits firmly within Research and does not conduct outbound outreach. Analysts support reporting and data integrity, while senior team members take increasing ownership of the firm's sourcing scorecard and research methodology.

We hire selectively and hold a high bar for accuracy, judgment, and execution. The right person pairs a researcher's instincts with a builder's mindset. In return, you get direct exposure to live private equity mandates, meaningful responsibility from the start, deep practical fluency with frontier AI applied to real business problems, and a real share in the firm's success.

• Conduct thematic, strategic research and market analysis to identify, profile, and qualify private companies across North America against client investment criteria, including both platform and add‑on opportunities.
• Learn, apply, and help further develop Alpha Current's proprietary research methodology to uncover and confirm information across public and private sources.
• Own the target identification process from initial screening through delivery of qualified, well‑researched candidates to the Origination team.
• Build target lists, market maps, company profiles, and industry summaries for review by senior staff and founding partners.

• Conduct investigative research across institutional‑grade data platforms and frontier AI to…