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Search Fund & Acquisition Sourcing Associate

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Based in Latin America with professional English; Spanish or Portuguese fluency preferred
  • 1–3 years in search funds, private equity, investment banking, corporate development, executive search, B2B sales, or comparable sourcing work
  • Strong research judgment, concise writing, and persistent but respectful follow-through
  • Advanced Google Sheets or Excel skills and comfort working from a CRM every day

Responsibilities

  • Turn investment themes into precise target-company criteria and searchable market maps
  • Research fragmented industries, identify owner-operated businesses, and enrich decision-maker data
  • Write personalized outreach that demonstrates real knowledge of the company and owner
  • Run multi-channel sequences and conduct early qualification calls

Key facts

Other skills

  • Research
  • Writing
  • Google Sheets
  • Microsoft Excel

About the company

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Kirin

Food & Beverage Manufacturing

We conduct research and trade alternative investment markets. Mathematicians, software engineers, and data scientists welcome.

Company details

IndustryFood & Beverage Manufacturing
Company size11 - 50

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Job description

We are hiring a Search Fund & Acquisition Sourcing Associate to build proprietary deal flow for small-business acquisitions. This role emphasizes disciplined market mapping, owner outreach, and pipeline management rather than financial modeling alone.

Responsibilities

• Turn investment themes into precise target-company criteria and searchable market maps.

• Research fragmented industries, identify owner-operated businesses, and enrich decision-maker data.

• Write personalized outreach that demonstrates real knowledge of the company and owner.

• Run multi-channel sequences and conduct early qualification calls.

• Maintain accurate pipeline stages, notes, follow-ups, and disqualification reasons.

• Measure performance by qualified owner conversations and actionable opportunities, not raw email volume.

Requirements

• Based in Latin America with professional English; Spanish or Portuguese fluency preferred.

• 1–3 years in search funds, private equity, investment banking, corporate development, executive search, B2B sales, or comparable sourcing work.

• Strong research judgment, concise writing, and persistent but respectful follow-through.

• Advanced Google Sheets or Excel skills and comfort working from a CRM every day.

Helpful but not required

• Prior search-fund internship or lower-middle-market transaction exposure.

• Experience with Clay, Apollo, PitchBook, Capital IQ, Grata, HubSpot, or Affinity.

• A work sample showing how you mapped a market or sourced hard-to-find companies.

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