Vice President, Investment Team
Vice President, Principal Investments
Overview:
A leading energy-focused organization is seeking a Vice President to join its principal investing team. The group deploys its own balance sheet capital across energy, power, infrastructure, natural resources, and energy transition opportunities, providing a flexible investment mandate across equity, structured capital, joint ventures, and M&A transactions. This role offers significant responsibility across the full investment lifecycle, from origination and underwriting through execution and portfolio management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and execute investments across acquisitions, growth equity, structured capital solutions, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships.
- Perform detailed financial analysis, valuation, and investment underwriting to support transaction and capital allocation decisions.
- Coordinate commercial, financial, operational, legal, tax, and technical diligence processes.
- Support negotiation of transaction documentation and commercial agreements alongside advisors and counterparties.
- Prepare investment memoranda and recommendations for senior management and investment committees.
- Partner with internal stakeholders to evaluate opportunities and ensure investments align with broader commercial objectives.
- Assist with portfolio company oversight, value creation initiatives, refinancing efforts, capital planning, and exit preparation.
- Develop relationships with management teams, advisors, lenders, investors, and other industry participants.
- Mentor and oversee junior team members throughout the investment process.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience in private equity, principal investing, infrastructure investing, corporate development, investment banking, or related investment roles.
- Demonstrated experience executing transactions from evaluation through closing.
- Strong financial modeling, valuation, and transaction structuring skills.
- Experience within energy, power, infrastructure, natural resources, or other asset-intensive sectors preferred.
- Strong commercial judgment, communication skills, and ability to manage multiple stakeholders.
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