Founding Private Equity Strategist
About the role
Founding Strategist – Private Equity role at Keye, a YC-backed AI-driven private equity diligence platform. In-person in New York, sponsored visa, 3+ years PE investing experience required. Lead full client lifecycle from demo to activation and expansion, shaping platform adoption and strategy with the founding team.
Responsibilities
- Drive customer activation—ensuring firms not only onboard, but fully adopt the platform
- Own relationships with clients from demo to rollout, often working directly with them on live deal data
- Run tailored POCs that showcase platform value using real, quantitative diligence processes
- Build and maintain deep, trusted relationships with senior PE professionals—across business and informal settings
- Collaborate with product and engineering to prioritize, spec, and ship features that drive usage
- Turn PE workflows and client feedback into actionable roadmap decisions
- Help define the future structure of the platform strategy org—spanning engagement, success, and support
Qualifications
- 2–6 years in Private Equity (investing role)
- Deep experience with analyses carried out during due diligence (beyond just commercial DD)
- Confident presenter with experience engaging senior stakeholders
- Entrepreneurial, process-driven, with strong product sense and ability to work across teams
- Works with urgency, clarity, and a strong sense of ownership
- Socially confident—comfortable leading client sessions, dinners, and events
- Based in NYC or open to relocating
- Comfortable in high-pressure, fast-paced environments with tight deadlines and demanding clients
Skills
About Keye
The Smartest Private Equity Investor
Keye is an AI software that lets private equity firms do due diligence for acquisitions faster and more accurately. Our customers can evaluate 10x more deals and fund better companies which leads directly to better returns/more alpha. -- Our system is the first of its kind to instantly generate complex, comprehensive data packs from raw data in any format, directly from the data room. This enables investors to gain an 80% understanding of a potential deal within moments, empowering them to say No to a deal earlier in the process and focus on high-potential opportunities. Traditionally, creating these detailed data packs—like cohort or retention analyses and customer roll-forwards—takes weeks, during which critical details may be overlooked, potentially costing funds millions in missed insights and poor decisions. -- Keye combines cutting-edge AI with deep private equity expertise to deliver powerful, multi-layered insights that go far beyond the simple summarizers and search functions offered by other tools. Our platform dives deep into both quantitative and qualitative due diligence data, offering high-impact analytics crafted specifically for private equity workflows. This isn’t just automation—it’s a purpose-built solution that uncovers actionable insights, fueling smarter decisions and driving true alpha.
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