Investment Professional

Toigo Foundation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

Retirement plan

Professional development $5,000

Cell phone stipend

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Stardust Equity, the investment arm of Stardust, seeks an investment professional to lead transactions across private markets, overseeing sourcing, due diligence, and execution in a small team. The role owners the full investment lifecycle, from origination to portfolio support, driving outcomes aligned with equity, care, and systems change.

This position requires 10+ years of experience and strong financial modeling, with a track record in private equity, venture capital, or related fields.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in asset ownership, private equity, venture capital, or related fields.
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead the entire investment process, including evaluating term sheets and doing waterfall analyses.
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and technical skills, with advanced Excel proficiency.
• High attention to detail in due diligence and deal evaluation.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including investment memo writing.
• Self-manager who can juggle multiple responsibilities from conception to execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead the full investment lifecycle from origination to execution.
• Develop market maps, research, and house views.
• Perform due diligence, financial modeling, and risk assessment.
• Monitor the portfolio and measure impact with data-driven reporting.
• Mentor colleagues and collaborate across the team.
• Represent Stardust Equity with external groups and conferences.

Skills

10+ years exp

End-to-end investment leadership

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Investment memo writing

Self-management

Education

Master's degree

Tools

Excel

Job description

The Role

Stardust Equity is seeking an investment professional to lead transactions as we continue to build a best-inclass portfolio of direct investments and LP allocations across asset classes in private markets. Reporting to the Managing Director of the strategy, you will own the full investment lifecycle — sourcing, due diligence, financial analysis, execution, and portfolio support.This is a small team, and everyone participates in every part of the work. It is an excellent opportunity for an investor with a decade of deal experience and a true commitment to utilizing capital to promote equity, care, sustainability and systems change.

About Stardust Equity

Stardust Equity is the investment arm of Stardust that builds care and equity into the flow of capital. As the financial engine of Stardust, Equity leverages capital to sustain and amplify the overall organizational mission.At Stardust, we understand that finance is not neutral—it reflects and reinforces systems of power. We show up with intentionality to challenge these patterns by channeling investment toward those who have been historically underestimated and excluded from capital access, leadership, and workplace opportunity. Our investment decisions are a commitment to redefining how power can be redistributed in the financial industry—challenging interlocking systems of racial, socio-economic, gender-, and identity-based injustice.We believe in a future that is founded in care, where both the planet and people can thrive. Our capital supports enterprises that protect the planet, uplift human health and dignity, and build inclusive economies, proving that financial growth and sustainability are not mutually exclusive. These investments will deliver strong financial performance while widening access to opportunity, directing resources to overlooked talent, and fostering authentic, equitable relationships that are generative, sustainable, and aligned with purposeful profit.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & Execution: Execute the Stardust Equity investment strategy, which maximizes positive outcomes alongside financial returns, and adapt it to changing market conditions and regulatory contexts. Lead research and house view development (memo writing), market mapping, and pipeline management.
• Investment Analysis & Due Diligence: Lead multiple transactions at once across the full investment cycle, managing investee engagements, prioritization, and due diligence, including market analysis, competitive positioning, impact, and risk assessment. This requires advanced proficiency in company/fund investment analysis and financial modeling.
• Instruments may include public and private equity, debt as well as blended finance, and direct company financing.
• Portfolio Management & Impact Measurement Rigor: Monitor the portfolio and prepare quarterly performance review and analysis. Bring rigor to learning and feedback, including impact measurement at both the strategy and portfolio levels, leading data collection processes, ensuring data integrity, and improving reporting templates for investment forecasting and deployment that prioritizes positive outcomes.
• Team Collaboration & Development: Mentor and collaborate with colleagues across the team, fostering high performance, mission-aligned culture. Engage with empathy, ensitivity, and discretion with colleagues, investees, and external stakeholders.
• External Representation: Develop and leverage a professional network to drive improved outcomes for the team and contribute to broader market action in the impact investment community. Represent Stardust Equity with other industry groups and at conferences.
• Other related duties and responsibilities as necessary and assigned

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, preferably in asset owner/allocator, private equity, venture capital/growth investing, investment banking, or consulting roles.
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead the entire investment process, including evaluating legal documentation for fund and direct investments, analyzing capitalization tables, evaluating and producing term sheets, and creating waterfall analyses.
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and technical skills, including advanced aptitude with Microsoft Excel, and the habit of leveraging data to support arguments.
• High attention to detail; always looking for points to probe further when conducting due diligence.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including investment memo writing.
• Self-manager who thrives juggling multiple responsibilities at once and can drive projects from conception to execution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent/relevant experience.
• Well versed in multiple arenas of investing for impact, with the understanding that it takes a spectrum of capital tools to create change.
• Experience with blended finance structures.

Benefits

Stardust offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support our employees’ well-being and professional growth:

• Three weeks of vacation annually, with an additional week added for every five years of service
• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance with 95% of premiums covered by the company
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Vanguard retirement plan with a company match of up to 4% per pay period, with both traditional and Roth contribution options
• $5,000 annually for professional development
• Employee Stipend Program, available after one month of employment: $100/month for cell phone and internet; up to $4,000 annually for health and wellness expenses for you and your family; up to $3,000 annually for out-of-state medical expenses; $250 birthday and $250 work anniversary reimbursements

Equal Opportunity & Diversity

Stardust is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, color, creed, disability, gender identity or expression, marital or partnership status, pregnancy, caregiver status, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, military service, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual abuse or stalking, genetic predisposition or carrier status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.