Fireclay Partners is building a technology-native investment bank. Operating Partners extend our sector expertise and help transaction teams understand the operating realities, relationships, and strategic questions that matter in agriculture.
What You Will Do- Bring credible senior operating experience and sector judgment to selected client and transaction situations.
- Help bankers interpret industry dynamics, business models, operating risks, and strategic priorities.
- Contribute structured expertise, observations, and reusable insight through Fireclay's proprietary technology platform, Forge.
- Collaborate with deal teams on research, diligence, positioning, and relevant market relationships.
- Engage selectively and professionally while protecting client confidentiality and avoiding conflicts.
- Senior executives, operators, advisers, or investors with meaningful leadership experience in agriculture or adjacent sectors.
- Strong judgment, communication skills, commercial credibility, and a useful professional network.
- Open-mindedness toward AI, structured data, and modern technology as tools for organizing and applying expertise.
- Willingness to contribute knowledge in a structured, disciplined way and collaborate with a technology-native banking team.
- No coding experience is required.
This is a flexible, high-trust affiliation for accomplished operators who want to apply their experience to important strategic and transaction questions.
Skills Required
- 15 years or more in ag operations with direct grower or producer facing experience
- Senior operator (VP, President, GM, COO, CEO) experience
- Existing network with founders, family owners, senior executives
- Familiarity with seasonality and working capital dynamics in agriculture
- Discretion when handling non public information
What We Do
Fireclay Partners is a veteran-owned middle-market M&A and buy-side advisory firm based in Kansas City. They serve private equity sponsors and family-owned businesses on platform sourcing, bolt-on acquisitions, and select sell-side mandates. Their model pairs investment banking execution with senior operating expertise, bringing in industry advisors with deep domain experience to support deal sourcing, due diligence, and sponsor engagement.
