Associate Director, Investments

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saas.groupSaaS investments
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Languages
Fluent English, written and spoken; additional European languages are a plus.
Experience
6+ years of professional experience after university
Required Skills
Project Management

Requirements

  • Have 6+ years of professional experience after university in transactions, strategy, or both.
  • Have training at a top-tier private equity, strategy consulting, Big Four strategy and deals, corporate development/M&A, or investment banking firm or team.
  • Bring relevant transaction experience, ideally in lower mid-market private equity, software or tech-enabled services, or M&A transactions.
  • Have live deal experience and ideally have led workstreams or served as the day-to-day deal lead.
  • Demonstrate strong financial modelling and valuation skills, including building models from a blank sheet and defending assumptions.
  • Have commercial due diligence experience, including market sizing, competitive analysis, customer and expert interviews, and quality-of-revenue work.
  • Have experience developing junior talent and an interest in coaching.
  • Demonstrate project management skills to coordinate parties, timelines, and documents.
  • Have a genuine interest in software and SaaS business models; a software background is an advantage, not a requirement.
  • Be fluent in written and spoken English; additional European languages are a plus.
  • Use AI tools day to day, especially Claude, and apply them to research, analysis, modelling, or diligence workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Underwrite deals, assess value, risk, and returns, write investment memos, and defend recommendations to the Investment Committee.
  • Qualify opportunities, issue non-binding offers, and set deal price and structure.
  • Own deals from first call through LOI, diligence, SPA, and closing.
  • Lead commercial due diligence, including market sizing, competitive analysis, right-to-win assessment, and quality-of-revenue analysis.
  • Build financial and commercial models, including ARR bridges, cohort and retention analysis, unit economics, scenarios, valuation, and returns.
  • Negotiate price, structure, and key terms with founders and their advisors.
  • Run diligence workstreams with internal teams and external legal, financial, and tax advisors, and turn findings into decisions.
  • Represent saas.group to sellers, brokers, and advisors, and work with executives, leadership, and post-close operators.
  • Develop junior team members as a hands-on player-coach.
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