Chief Investment Officer – Private Equity

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Establish or implement investment criteria while challenging existing assumptions.

• Direct fund allocation in alignment with the fund's mandate.

• Assess the validity of investment theses over time.

• Develop underwriting standards, baseline and downside scenarios, and necessary evidence prior to commitment.

• Create portfolios within fund constraints, taking into account concentration, pacing, leverage tolerance, and reserves.

• Prepare and scrutinize recommendations for the investment committee, including any recorded dissent.

• Track investments against their theses and escalate any deviations from the established plan.

• Make or provide guidance on decisions related to holding, supporting, selling, and other liquidity matters, ensuring transparency in valuation and conflicts.

• Lead and mentor investment professionals.

• Collaborate with investment committees, partners, deal teams, operating specialists, portfolio boards, and company management within defined authorities.

• Engage in the registration, evaluation, and curator review process for consideration of future opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Established chief investment officers, heads of investment, partners, and principals currently making investment decisions, or credible candidates preparing for such responsibilities.

• Proven ability or assessed potential to lead investment judgment within a suitable mandate.

• Experience in private equity, particularly in buyouts; additional experience in growth, minority, and other private market sectors is welcomed.

• Evidence of actual investment responsibilities undertaken, including fund or firm involvement, strategy, scale, and authorized decisions.

• Capacity to present investment recommendations that diverge from prevailing opinions and the outcomes that ensued.

• Skill in constructing downside scenarios and assessing when evidence is adequate.

• Experience in monitoring investments, assisting troubled investments, and making exit decisions.

• Ability to work collaboratively with operating partners, portfolio boards, and management without assuming their roles.

• Comprehension of accountable decisions, joint resolutions, and influences.

• Current résumé is required for registration.

• Essential details, function, sector, and three brief written responses regarding investment decisions are required for registration.

• LinkedIn profile is optional.

• No fixed minimum experience requirement is established.

• Professional designations will be considered alongside demonstrated capabilities.

• Confidential information must be excluded.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity to be considered for future permanent private equity leadership roles through the Rutherford Talent Guild™.

• Long-term career relationship with Rutherford.

• Curator-led Career Thesis development for accepted participants.

• Selective introductions to organizations for specific roles where there is a suitable match and under applicable arrangements.

• Access to private talent pipelines and retained searches by Rutherford & Company.

• Opportunity to express interest in fractional work through the Rutherford Talent Clearinghouse™.

• RutherfordINTEL Assessment interpreted in conjunction with experience, accomplishments, and objectives.

• Professional development priorities identified through curator review.