About The Company
THE FIRM
Greyhound is an emerging, research-driven growth equity firm founded on the belief that building enduring companies is one of the hardest challenges in business — and only a select few can achieve it. We specialize in identifying these exceptional companies as early as possible and earning the privilege to support them on their journey toward lasting greatness.
As one of the fastest-growing asset classes in private markets, there is an opportunity to build a world-class growth equity firm from the ground up. Our mission is to achieve market leading investment returns through a concentrated portfolio of enduring growth companies. Now investing from our third fund, we’re still in the early stages of our journey, but our vision is clear: to become the preferred partner for companies poised to compound their revenue, profits, and reputation over the long term.
With $1.4B in assets under management on behalf of institutional investors, non-profits, and individuals, we’ve already backed standout companies like Revolut, Guideline, Marqeta, Deliveroo, Brex, Toss, TravelPerk, N26, Weee!, Satispay, DriveWealth and Metronome.
About The Role
Location: London, UK (in-person)
THE ROLE
We are looking to strengthen our investment team with additional associate hires. With our latest fund less than half deployed across 3 growth investments, we are targeting to make another 5 growth investments over the next 18 months. The new colleagues will be adding much needed capacity to help research new theses, analyze our pipeline of investment opportunities and help our portfolio companies with select value creation projects.
Key Responsibilities
* Support the deal team in assessing investment opportunities by leading commercial diligence workstreams, analysing company data, building a thorough operating and returns model, benchmarking key return drivers, and conducting valuation analysis.
* Shape investment theses by researching markets, trends, and companies and support sourcing by building market maps, ranking target companies and reaching out to companies within the thesis.
* Monitor portfolio companies’ performance and help identify and implement value creation initiatives focused on growth strategy and organizational topics.
* Advance the firm’s mission by deepening its understanding of enduring growth through research.
OUR CULTURE AND OPERATING PRINCIPLES
Having studied what builds the most enduring companies, we firmly believe that the success of any business lies in the quality of its people and the firm’s culture. We employ this philosophy when partnering with talented entrepreneurs and equally when building our own business.
We challenge ourselves to set world-class standards and focus on creating meaningful, long-term impact rather than chasing short-term wins or personal recognition. In building our business, we prioritize depth over breadth, committing to doing a select few things exceptionally well and always striving for improvement—whether in ourselves, our team, or the value we deliver.
When faced with challenges, we take a thoughtful, analytical approach, looking beyond quick fixes to deeply understand the problems at hand. Our decisions are guided by data, first principles, and reason, as we build solutions designed to compound over time. We value direct and authentic communication, believing that candid dialogue leads to better decisions. Our teams remain lean and composed of carefully selected individuals who thrive together. By staying resourceful, executing with discipline and focus, we create lasting impact while avoiding wasted effort.
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
We are looking for someone deeply passionate about Greyhound and the role’s mission with the right ingredients to be an A* in the role. Throughout the interview process, we will assess how well you demonstrate the desired role competencies as well as your fit with our operating principles.
Experience
* Up to 3 years of total work experience at a strategy consulting firm.
* Significant exposure to strategy and due-diligence projects.
* International experience, and cultural awareness gained through studies, work or extracurriculars.
* Financial knowledge and skills gained through studies, work or extracurriculars.
* Strong academic achievements, graduated with a first-class degree or equivalent.
* Exposure to technology-enabled consumer, fintech and software preferred, but not required.
Competencies
* Problem Solving: The ability to solve complex problems, reach a deep understanding and connect issues that might not seem relevant at first.
* Commercial Research and Diligence: The ability to lead commercial research and diligence workstreams focused on market sizing, trends, competitive landscape, business model quality etc.
* Financial Analysis & Valuations: Strong technical and analytical skills to analyse business plans, metrics and financials, and to build operating and valuation models.
* Process management: Excellent process management skills and ability to collaborate with other team members involved in the investment process to achieve exceptional results within set deadlines.
Fit With Operating Principles
* Set the Bar High(er): Sets ambitious goals and repeatedly produces impressive high-quality work by seeking to continuously improve themselves, the team, and the firm through rapid iterations.
* Thoughtful Problem Solvers: Loves to research and solve complex problems with rigor and efficiency by relying on logic, data and first principles and by becoming an expert in new topics, skills and technologies.
* Build Enduring Growth: Comfortable seeking quality over quantity. Focusing on deep, lasting partnerships for the long haul by prioritizing LPs and portfolio companies.
* Lean A* Team: Achieves best results when working collaboratively as part of a fast-paced, goal-oriented team where everyone cares intensely about Greyhound’s success.
* Impact over Ego or Champagne: Values impact over titles, logos or egos and takes responsibility to get things done, never feeling like that’s not their job or blaming external factors when things go wrong.
WHY THIS IS AN EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY
You will be part of a London-based but internationally focused team that is passionate about investing in and building enduring companies, thereby partnering with exceptional tech companies that shape their industries such as Revolut in the UK, Guideline in the US or Toss in South Korea.
You will join a company that cares about continuous improvement and learning, with high ambitions and plenty of challenges to work on to keep the learning curve steep.
You will embark on an entrepreneurial journey where you are expected to drive real impact to build an enduring investment manager.
You will be part of a passionate, high-performance team that is continuously looking to increase talent density and where A* talent gets rewarded disproportionately.
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