Vice President, M&A Origination

About the Role

Acquisitions are how CSC Generation grows, making the front end of the deal pipeline one of the most consequential functions in the company. As Vice President, M&A Origination, you will set the strategy for where we look and why, build the relationships that produce proprietary opportunities, and surface businesses we would never have seen through a standard process.

Within your first year, success means a fully built origination engine—defined coverage markets, a growing proprietary pipeline, a systematized intermediary network, and qualified opportunities advancing through the investment process. You will work on a small, senior team where the person who found the deal is in the room when we decide to pursue it.

This is a lean team. You will own a lot, move fast, and make decisions with full end-to-end responsibility.

What You'll Do

Origination Strategy & Market Coverage

Deal Sourcing & Relationship Management

Qualification, Execution & Pipeline Discipline

Team & Network Building

Required Qualifications

• 10–15 years in private equity, investment banking, or a comparable principal-investing environment with business development or deal origination as a major component of the role.
• Track record of sourcing transactions that closed at volume—proprietary or limited-process deals you personally found, cultivated, and advanced.
• Deep, current network across bankers, brokers, corporate development teams, lenders, and advisors in the middle market, with the standing to open doors on your own name.
• Investing judgment sufficient to evaluate whether an opportunity is worth pursuing and to defend that view to an investment committee.
• Proven ability to build a funnel from scratch—constructing the target universe, segmenting it, running outreach cadence, and sustaining relationships across multi-year cultivation cycles.
• Fluency with sourcing and CRM platforms (DealCloud, Grata, Sourcescrub, Affinity, Apollo, or equivalents) and genuine comfort using AI tooling to extend coverage.
• Comfort managing a pipeline quantitatively—coverage, conversion, and activity—and setting the targets the team is held to.
• Willingness to travel regularly to targets, lenders, advisors, and key industry events.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in consumer, retail, ecommerce, or multi-unit businesses.
• Exposure to carve-outs, distressed, and special-situations transactions.
• Familiarity with deal financing—a working sense of how transactions get funded and structured, enough to talk credibly with owners and lenders about how a deal comes together.
• Experience building or leading a sourcing effort or origination team.

Why Join

The people who do best here are builders. They take ownership, move fast, and want to see the direct impact of their work.

Interview Process

1. Recruiter Screen - A 30-minute conversation with our recruiting team to align on the role, your background, and what you are looking for.
2. Hiring Manager Interview - Conversation with Corporate Development leadership focused on your sourcing track record, network depth, and how you approach building a pipeline.
3. Sourcing Challenge - A short take-home exercise so we can understand how you build a funnel and approach execution.
4. Executive Interview - Deep-dive session with CSC senior leadership covering deal origination history, relationship network, and strategic fit.
5. In-Person Interview - We'd like to meet you at our nearest office (Los Angeles, Austin, or Salt Lake City). Details and logistics will be arranged with your recruiter.
6. Reference Checks - Conducted in parallel with the final stages where possible.
7. Offer - We move quickly for the right candidate.

Interview process is subject to change. Any updates will be communicated promptly and clearly.