Investment Associate

High Country: Private Equity Search; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

High Country: Private Equity Search partners with a growth-focused real estate private equity platform to recruit an Investment Associate in Los Angeles. The role centers on analyzing, underwriting, and executing value-add and opportunistic real estate investments, with exposure to senior leadership and multiple strategies.

You will build complex models, assess risks, coordinate due diligence, and prepare investment memos for committees.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial underwriting, valuation, and investment analysis for acquisitions and development opportunities across asset classes.
• Build and manage financial models, including sensitivity analyses, scenario modeling, capital structures, and return projections.
• Evaluate prospective investments, identify risks and opportunities, and develop actionable investment recommendations.
• Own significant components of the transaction process: due diligence, third-party coordination, financing analysis, and closing execution.
• Prepare and present investment memoranda and recommendations to senior teams and investment committees.
• Analyze business plans, market fundamentals, operating assumptions, and value-creation strategies.
• Work with brokers, lenders, operating partners, and other transaction counterparties.
• Evaluate joint venture structures, financing alternatives, and transaction-level economics.
• Collaborate with asset management teams on strategic initiatives, refinancings, repositionings, and dispositions.

Job description

We are partnering with an established, well-capitalized real estate private equity firm seeking an Investment Associate to join its growing investment team. Through a series of fully discretionary self managed investment vehicles the firm pursues opportunistic and value-add investments across multiple commercial real estate asset classes, employing a flexible investment approach and targeting compelling risk-adjusted returns.

This is an opportunity to join an entrepreneurial, institutionally backed investment platform where Associates play a meaningful role throughout the investment lifecycle. The position offers significant exposure to senior leadership, sophisticated transactions, and a broad range of investment strategies. The emphasis is on investment analysis, underwriting, transaction execution, and developing the judgment necessary to evaluate and execute complex real estate investments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead financial underwriting, valuation, and investment analysis for potential acquisitions and development opportunities across multiple asset classes.
• Build and manage sophisticated financial models, including sensitivity analyses, scenario modeling, capital structures, and investment return projections.
• Evaluate prospective investments, identify key risks and opportunities, and develop actionable investment recommendations.
• Take ownership of significant components of the transaction process, including due diligence, third-party coordination, financing analysis, and closing execution.
• Prepare and present investment memoranda and recommendations to senior investment professionals and investment committees.
• Analyze business plans, market fundamentals, operating assumptions, and potential value-creation strategies.
• Work directly with brokers, lenders, operating partners, and other transaction counterparties.
• Evaluate joint venture structures, financing alternatives, and transaction-level economics.
• Collaborate with asset management teams on strategic initiatives, refinancings, repositionings, and dispositions.