Director, Portfolio Solutions - Teachers' Venture Growth

Black Ties Group Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team of Growth Equity investors as a Director in the Portfolio Solutions Group. This role focuses on Value Creation initiatives, leveraging your extensive experience in tech investing to drive insights and strategies that enhance portfolio performance. Collaborate closely with senior leadership and investment teams to deliver top-notch analytics and support for portfolio companies. This innovative firm offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible hybrid work environment, ensuring you can thrive both professionally and personally. If you're ready to take your career to the next level, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Comprehensive employer paid benefits

Defined benefit pension plan

Flexible/hybrid work environment

Competitive time off

Employee discount programs

Opportunities for professional growth

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience in tech investing or portfolio management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for presenting findings.
• Strong understanding of financial modeling and risk assessment.

Responsibilities

• Elevate investment insights across the portfolio and sectors.
• Provide analytics to support investment decision-making.
• Develop liquidity strategies and networks for portfolio companies.

Skills

Tech Investing

Market Research

Financial Modeling

Valuation Techniques

Risk Assessment

M&A Knowledge

Team Leadership

Job description

The opportunity

Exciting opportunity to join a supportive and collaborative team of global Growth Equity investors as a Director within the Portfolio Solutions Group (PSG) focused on Value Creation initiatives. PSG is focused on driving cross-asset class initiatives to help OTPP portfolio companies thrive.

This role brings a top-down, portfolio-wide perspective on our investing activities and activities to support our portfolio companies through financing events. It involves hands-on participation to ensure we deliver the best outcomes for the portfolio in terms of returns, liquidity, and risk utilization.The role would primarily work with OTPP’s Venture Growth arm (TVG) but include building cross-asset capabilities and perspectives on exits for PSG.

With both an investment and strategic lens, the candidate leverages excellent capital raising experience with tech-oriented growth companies. The candidate can devise investment strategies and generate insights that drive investment and value-creation decision-making for tech-focused portfolios.

Who you'll work with

Reporting to the Head of Value Creation for TVG you will work closely with the head of PSG, TVG and TVG’s EMD. You will also work closely with the TVG and Equities Senior Leadership team, investment teams, and the Total Fund as needed.

What you'll do

• Elevate investment insights across the TVG portfolio and sectors.
• Provide top-down analytics to support investment decision-making and trade-offs across sector, stage, and geography.
• Deliver enhanced data mining from TVG funds and other sources within OTPP to detect emerging trends.
• Enable forward-looking investment guidance based on real-time data.
• Integrate portfolio construction considerations into the investment diligence process and IC decision-making.
• Enhance TVG investment capabilities with data and analytics insights across sectors, geographies, and the investment lifecycle.
• Streamline reporting and forecasting processes to enable more automation and seamless integration.
• Focus on exit/liquidity strategies to provide systematic access to capital.
• Work with Value Creation and senior leadership to identify exit opportunities and optimize value protection.
• Build a network of secondary investors, funds, and advisors to identify liquidity opportunities.
• Take an active approach to realize exits, including strategic acquisition or positioning for sale to Private Equity buyers.
• Develop a network of potential co-investors and advise portfolio companies on investor introductions.
• Lead discussions around analytics and execution of exit strategies.
• Provide value-added insights across the TVG and OTPP Portfolio and contribute to key strategic documents and analysis.
• Monitor the portfolio from the perspective of exits and investment strategy.
• Lead workstreams with portfolio companies and deal teams regarding liquidity.
• Develop liquidity strategies, networks, and playbooks

What you'll need

• Minimum 10 years of experience in tech investing, research, or portfolio management
• Capable of formulating long-term investment strategies aligned with organizational goals.
• Proficiency in conducting thorough market research, analyzing data, and identifying trends.
• Strong understanding of financial modeling, valuation techniques, and risk assessment.
• Direct experience executing transactions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for presenting findings and recommendations.
• Experience leading a team and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.
• M&A knowledge, fluency and execution capabilities

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What we’re offering

• Pay-for-performance environment that offers competitive salary and incentive

• Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development

• Comprehensive employer paid benefits coverage

• Retirement income through a defined benefit pension plan

• The opportunity to invest back into the fund through our Deferred Incentive Program

• A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working

• Competitive time off

• Our Flexible Travel Program gives you the option to work abroad in another region/country for up to a month each year

• Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis

At Ontario Teachers', diversity is one of our core strengths. We take pride in ensuring that the people we hire and the culture we create, reflect and embrace diversity of thought, background and experience. Through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), we celebrate diversity and foster inclusion through events for colleagues to connect for professional development, networking & mentoring. We are building an inclusive and equitable workplace where our talent is respected, accepted and empowered to be themselves. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, check out Life at Teachers'.

How to apply

Are you ready to pursue new challenges and take your career to the next level? Apply today! You may be invited to complete a pre-recorded digital interview as part of your application.

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Functional Areas:

Investments

Requisition ID:

6405