Investment Partner

Role overview

This is a senior, founder-facing investment leadership role based in Germany, supporting the creation and expansion of a disciplined acquisition engine across Europe. The position centers on sourcing and converting high-quality software acquisition opportunities, building direct relationships with founders, advisors, and other stakeholders across several verticals. It combines strategic market development, hands-on execution, and executive-level relationship management in a fast-moving, private equity-backed software setting. The role calls for designing a repeatable sourcing system, establishing trust with founders, and moving opportunities through the full investment journey. As a regional leader, you will also help build and scale an effective origination team while influencing go-to-market direction and operating cadence. This is an entrepreneurial role with substantial ownership, visibility, and long-term influence on portfolio growth.

Accountabilities

• Take ownership of the European origination plan, including market mapping, ICP definition, vertical theses, and coverage models across selected software segments.
• Build and grow a strong outbound origination organization by hiring, coaching, and managing team leads and managers to meet ambitious pipeline goals.
• Run multi-channel outreach efforts across email, phone, LinkedIn, events, and conferences to connect with founders, advisors, and intermediaries.
• Set up and maintain structured operating routines such as WBRs, MBRs, and QBRs, while ensuring accurate CRM usage, pipeline transparency, and deal tracking across every stage.
• Strengthen founder engagement and conversion by creating trust-based relationships and advancing opportunities from first contact through LOI and closing.
• Serve as a regional closer on important opportunities, supporting negotiations, sustaining momentum, and driving execution through signed agreements.
• Work closely with M&A, operating, and people teams to align qualification standards, market focus, and team-scaling plans.
• Continuously improve playbooks, tooling, and data-led systems to increase outreach effectiveness, conversion rates, and deal speed.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in B2B software, enterprise sales, origination, or investment-focused roles, preferably in PE-backed or rapidly growing SaaS companies.
• Demonstrated success in building and scaling outbound sales or origination teams of 15-30+ people, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Strong background in founder-led sales, enterprise new-logo acquisition, or commercial roles tied to M&A processes.
• Solid knowledge of SaaS ecosystems, market mapping, pipeline development, and modern GTM and outreach practices.
• Proven ability to earn trust and influence senior stakeholders, especially founders and executive decision-makers.
• Well-developed systems thinking with experience using structured operating models, metrics, and CRM-based performance oversight.
• Advanced negotiation and closing capability, including managing complex, multi-stakeholder deal cycles through completion.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, or a related discipline is preferred.
• Strong communication, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills in high-growth, fast-paced environments.

Benefits

• Competitive executive compensation with performance-linked incentives.
• The chance to lead and scale a high-growth investment origination function across Europe.
• High levels of autonomy and ownership within a long-term, evergreen investment platform.
• Exposure to experienced operators, investors, and advisors across global software markets.
• Flexible working setup with regional travel across Europe.
• Strong career growth potential in investment leadership and portfolio development.
• A dynamic, entrepreneurial culture centered on continuous improvement and long-term value creation.

Additional information

This role is posted on behalf of a partner company, which will handle applications and the next steps directly. The partner is responsible for reviewing candidates and managing the hiring process.

Privacy and selection process

Applications are screened using an AI-supported matching process to identify candidates who best fit the core requirements of the role. The resulting shortlist is shared with the hiring company, while the partner company manages interviews, assessments, and final decisions. By applying, candidates acknowledge that personal data may be processed for evaluation and shared with the employer under applicable data protection rules, including GDPR. Candidates may exercise data rights such as access, correction, deletion, and objection. AI tools may also assist with parts of the recruitment workflow, including resume review, response analysis, and detection of inconsistencies or verification signals, but human review remains part of the process and final hiring decisions are made by people.