Position: Principal of High Street Capital

Reports to: Partners of High Street Capital

Role Description

Principal will help enable High Street Capital’s investment and operating team leaders to focus on sourcing new platform transactions and manage High Street Capital’s existing holdings.  Principal provides a seasoned perspective to execution workstreams to ultimately accelerate decision-making and enhance the efficiency with which the firm completes platform, add-on, and exit transactions.  The principal will also assist in certain administrative responsibilities for the firm, including investor relations, giving him or her a front-row seat into the value High Street Capital creates and the impact it has on the firm’s limited partners.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Serve as investment team resource on platform investments
• Coordinate due diligence, third party providers, models, investment memos in support of, and in collaboration with, the investment team leader
• Collaborate with investment team leaders to frame out the key risk areas and key questions to answer for each transaction
• Negotiate legal documentation
• Direct activities of any third investment team member, managing them as a resource in coordination with the investment team leader
• Coordinate with 3^rd party financing partners
• Lead all portfolio company exits
• Lead the analysis and execution of all add-ons, including negotiation of legal documentation and financing processes, as determined by Partners
• Oversee shared activities and best practices, including transaction-related legal documentation for investments, due diligence vendors, control and organization of internal and external data rooms, Deal Cloud, office requirements, various accounting activities in coordination with our outside CFO
• Sit on, or observe, portfolio company Boards of Directors as decided by the Partners at each platform transaction closing
  
  Firm-wide Administration including:
• Serve as first point of contact for investor relations, including leading drafting of the Annual General Meeting presentation
• Develop and maintain a Value Creation Summary for each Fund VI investment in collaboration with the deal team at closing
• Develop and maintain a firm wide digital escrow tracking system
• Quarterly valuation and return (IRR) management and coordination
• Take on various other administrative responsibilities (will evolve over time)
  
  Qualifications
• A bachelor’s degree and MBA (preferred but not required) with an outstanding academic record
• At least five years of relevant experience, including investment banking, Principal investing, subordinated debt/cash flow lending, or other similar roles.  Accounting background helpful but not necessary
• Significant exposure to and understanding of efficient due diligence and closing processes for private investments
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, analytical, and modeling skills.  High attention to detail
• Strong written communication skills

• Ideal Candidate Attributes
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• Collaborative working style in step with a partnership model
• Demonstrated ability to:
• Synthesize, aggregate, and parse high volumes of information that may be incomplete or irrelevant and recommend actions that are in accordance with the firm’s vision, strategy, and values
• Thrive in an unstructured environment without rigidly defined procedures
• Understand and consider a wide range of financial, operational, strategic, human, and ethical matters
• Comfortably communicate with multiple personality types
• Seek accountability/responsibility while exercising self-awareness to know when help is needed
• Naturally a systems thinker with an interest in business operations and working with management teams to improve them
• Curiosity and open-mindedness, with a passion for continuous improvement
• Uncompromising attention to detail that inspires confidence and always produces excellent work whether anyone will know or not 

What Success Looks Like

• Driving greater fund efficiency, as shown by the following:
• Quicker closings, as measured by time from LOI execution to closing
• Better utilization of High Street Capital resources by leveraging team leads and junior resources
• Better selection, terms and utilization of service providers
• Driving expense savings
• Driving better collaboration of deal teams and more effective and efficient input from Investment Committee on prospective investment opportunities

Compensation:

• Base salary and bonus plan commensurate with experience

Firm Description

• We’re helping fuel the growth of American lower middle market businesses. High Street Capital isn’t your typical private equity firm. For nearly three decades, we’ve partnered with entrepreneurs, operators, and executives to turn good businesses into great ones. With $232.5 million of capital raised for our Fund VI, we’re doubling down on what we do best: building companies, empowering management teams, and creating long-term value. Our culture thrives on curiosity, collaboration, and a shared passion for helping hard-working people to build their businesses.
• At High Street Capital, we roll up our sleeves and work side by side with management teams, supported by seasoned Operating Partners who bring real operating expertise to the table. Integrity, excellence, and respect have guided us for 28 years and remain the foundation of our success. We build authentic partnerships through equity alignment, open communication, and a shared vision that keeps everyone moving in the same direction.

Career Growth: Consideration for Partner in next fund

Qualified and interested in growing your career?  Forward resume to Tim@HighStreetCapital.com