Director/Principal - Park Hill (Private Equity - Infrastructure)

PJT Partners; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 300,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

PJT Partners is a global advisory-focused investment bank seeking an experienced industry professional for its Infrastructure Distribution Team. The ideal candidate will lead and manage relationships with US-based clients, understand private markets strategies, and work closely with PJT Park Hill partners to originate and close opportunities.

Expect extensive travel, strong leadership, and a track record of building client relationships in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience selling private markets strategies and articulating risk/reward spectrum.
• Strong understanding of private markets investment landscape and LP buyers.
• Proven ability to build relationships with North American and global infrastructure players.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert product and market content as a trusted advisor to PJT Park Hill clients.
• Collaborate with teams to support distribution and project management.
• Travel extensively and maintain meticulous records with US-based teams and senior partners.
• Follow up and close on commitments across client engagements.

Skills

Private markets experience

Client management

US market knowledge

Travel readiness

Investment advisory

Job description

PJT Partners is a global advisory-focused investment bank. Our team of senior professionals delivers a wide array of strategic advisory, shareholder advisory, restructuring and special situations and private fund advisory and placement services to corporations, financial sponsors, institutional investors and governments around the world. We offer a unique portfolio of advisory services designed to help our clients achieve their strategic objectives. We also provide, through PJT Park Hill, private fund advisory and fundraising services for alternative investment managers, including private equity funds, real estate funds and hedge funds.

From the beginning, PJT Partners has firmly believed that having the best people is key to building an enduring franchise. Our perspective was, and remains, that a great team brings in both top tier clients and appeals to a wide-range of diverse, talented colleagues. Fostering an inclusive culture, which welcomes differing perspectives and beliefs, enables us to provide the best advice and insights to our clients.

To learn more about PJT Partners, please visit our website at www.pjtpartners.com.

Responsibilities

PJT Park Hill is seeking an experienced industry professional for its Infrastructure Distribution Team. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership, interpersonal, client management, and analytical and writing skills, as well as demonstrate exemplary work ethic, attention to detail, mentorship, and the ability to work well both independently and within teams.

Responsibilities Include

• Provide expert product and market content as a trusted advisor to PJT Park Hill clients;
• Embrace a culture of collaboration and teamwork;
• Have a willingness to travel extensively, keep meticulous records and work closely with the US based distribution and project management teams as well as senior partners;
• Understand the differentiated investment processes across our client base, following up and closing on commitments.

Qualifications

• Experience selling various private markets strategies and the ability to articulate the risk/reward spectrum across these strategies;
• Passion for private markets and a strong understanding of the private markets investment and LP buyer landscape;
• Strategic thinker, with appreciation and understanding for where the private markets funds are and where they are headed in the US and globally;
• Natural relationship builder and ability to “read the room” and adapt one’s messaging and conversation based on the audience and investor appetite;
• Technical product knowledge; ability to quickly understand and articulate a GP’s investment strategy / strategies in technical depth;
• Strong, established relationships with North American and global infrastructure companies and key decision-makers within the firms;
• Demonstrable track record of building client relationships;
• Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment and to handle multiple projects at a time;
• Confident and self-aware with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal;
• Strong work ethic, passion for excellence, results-oriented;
• Personal and professional integrity of the highest order;
• Self starter who takes initiative and is collaborative both internally and externally.

Expected annualized base salary of $300,000 to $350,000.

Base salary is one component of PJT Partners’ compensation structure. In addition to base salary, PJT Partners’ compensation structure may include additional rewards, incentives and benefits, including but not limited to, a discretionary bonus component.

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