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Sourcing Analyst

L5

recur softwareOak Park, IL9 days ago

Occupations

Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm ProductsSales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and TravelSoftware Developers

Industries

Software PublishersCustom Computer Programming ServicesComputer Systems Design Services
Sourcing Analyst Chicago | Full-time | New grads welcome
Our Mission: We're building a private equity platform for the AI era. We acquire mission-critical vertical SaaS companies ($2-20M ARR) and transform them using AI and modern technology. We're a team of former investors from Accel, backed by some of the world's leading technology investors including Reef Pass, Prosus Ventures, Accel, and the founders of Mainsail and TCVRole Overview We're looking for a Sourcing Analyst who lives on the phone. Your job is simple: find software company founders and get them talking to us. You'll cold call, show up at conferences, fly out to meet founders, and do whatever it takes to start conversations that turn into acquisitions. This is a high-volume, high-energy role for someone who thrives on rejection, loves the chase, and knows how to get past gatekeepers
What You'll Do:
  • Cold call software company founders and decision-makers - hundreds of dials a week
  • Travel to conferences, trade shows, and founder meetups to build relationships face-to-face
  • Get on planes at short notice to meet founders wherever they are
  • Run creative outreach across phone, email, and LinkedIn to break through to hard-to-reach people
  • Build and maintain a pipeline of founder relationships in our CRMQualify opportunities and hand off warm conversations to the deal team
  • Work closely with the founders to target new verticals, geographies, and channels
What We're Looking For:
  • New grads welcome - 1-3 years in a high-volume sales, SDR/BDR, or business development role is a nice to have
  • Fearless on the phone: you don't take rejection personally and you know how to keep a conversation going
  • The gift of the gab - natural, confident, and able to build rapport with anyone from a bootstrapped founder to a seasoned CEOHungry, competitive, and self-motivated - you set your own pace and it's fast
  • Willing to travel frequently and at short notice
  • Organized enough to manage a high volume of conversations without letting anything slip
  • Genuinely curious about software businesses and what makes founders tick
  • Software industry experience preferred
Why Join Us? This is a front-line role at a fast-growing acquisition firm. You'll learn the software M&A world from the inside, work directly with the founders, and have a direct impact on every deal we do. If you're ambitious, relentless, and want a career in investing or dealmaking, this is how you get started LocationBased in Chicago, or willing to relocate. Compensation Competitive salary plus bonus, depending on experience Interested? Send us an email with your resume and a few sentences about why you're interested
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Level

SeniorL5

Location

Oak Park, IL

Occupation

Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products

Industry

Software Publishers

Posted

9 days ago

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