Jobs at American Operator

Leads budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, variance analysis, performance reporting, and strategic financial recommendations across approximately 50 portfolio companies. Partners with CEOs and operators on pricing, margins, hiring, capital allocation, growth, and profitability. Builds scalable FP&A processes, models, dashboards, and analytical frameworks while developing an FP&A team in a private equity-backed environment.

Manage M&A transactions from diligence through closing and post-close. Responsibilities include transaction timelines, data rooms, diligence coordination, closing checklists, signatures, corporate and regulatory filings, documentation, stakeholder coordination, executive reporting, and process improvement across multiple concurrent acquisitions.

Leads portfolio performance across approximately 10 businesses, partnering with company leaders and investment teams to achieve revenue and earnings goals. Drives value-creation initiatives across pricing, sales, operations, and organizational design; monitors operating plans, identifies risks, improves reporting, and supports board communications. Builds trusted relationships, influences without direct authority, and executes strategic improvements across diverse businesses. The role requires extensive travel and on-site collaboration with portfolio companies.

Source off-market acquisition opportunities through high-volume outbound prospecting (calls, email, LinkedIn, SMS). Qualify owners via discovery conversations, maintain CRM, nurture relationships, and hand off qualified leads to the Investments team.

The Vice President of Investments at American Operator will lead acquisition processes for small- to medium-sized businesses, overseeing transactions, evaluations, and relationship management while collaborating with leadership on strategy and execution.

Lead an established small business as CEO with full P&L ownership. Drive operations, team development, customer and vendor relationships, budgeting, forecasting, and growth. Ensure safe, compliant, and efficient operations while delivering measurable improvements in revenue, profitability, and cash flow and preparing for long-term ownership transition.