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Vice President, M&A Origination

CSC Generation· Finance
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Hybrid (Los Angeles, CA / Austin, TX / Salt Lake City, UT)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

CSC Generation is seeking a Vice President, M&A Origination to design and lead the origination strategy, build a proprietary deal pipeline, and develop the team and network to source and advance acquisition opportunities across a multi-brand portfolio.

Responsibilities

  • Own the origination strategy end to end—size each market, map the universe of companies that fit CSC's acquisition criteria, identify new categories for expansion, and set the bolt-on strategy for existing platforms.
  • Develop and defend a clear point of view on sectors, market trends, consolidation dynamics, buyer landscape, and clearing multiples.
  • Scale the acquisition funnel by maintaining a current, comprehensive picture of target markets so no relevant business transacts without CSC knowing about it.
  • Shape how coverage is divided across the origination team and how the function is structured, resourced, and measured as it grows.
  • Source proprietary opportunities directly from owners, founders, and management teams before a formal process exists.
  • Build and systematize the intermediary network—investment banks, corporate development teams, brokers, lenders, specialty-finance firms, and restructuring advisors—so CSC is the first call when an asset comes to market.
  • Represent CSC credibly in conversations with owners, boards, and advisors, articulating what we would do with the business, what happens to their team, and why our offer will hold.
  • Screen opportunities against investment criteria, build the initial commercial case, and present a clear recommendation to the investment team with market context, seller motivation, valuation, and risk.
  • Stay with your deals through close—remain the relationship owner, step into the deal process wherever you add leverage, and contribute to deal documents as they take shape.
  • Maintain pipeline discipline and reporting—coverage, conversion, activity, and relationship status—using modern sourcing, CRM, and AI tooling to extend reach.
  • Design and run referral and external advisor programs so sourcing capacity scales faster than headcount.
  • Develop junior origination talent and set the standard for how origination is executed across CSC.

Qualifications

  • 10–15 years in private equity, investment banking, or a comparable principal-investing environment with business development or deal origination as a major component of the role.
  • Track record of sourcing transactions that closed at volume—proprietary or limited-process deals you personally found, cultivated, and advanced.
  • Deep, current network across bankers, brokers, corporate development teams, lenders, and advisors in the middle market, with the standing to open doors on your own name.
  • Investing judgment sufficient to evaluate whether an opportunity is worth pursuing and to defend that view to an investment committee.
  • Proven ability to build a funnel from scratch—constructing the target universe, segmenting it, running outreach cadence, and sustaining relationships across multi-year cultivation cycles.
  • Fluency with sourcing and CRM platforms (DealCloud, Grata, Sourcescrub, Affinity, Apollo, or equivalents) and genuine comfort using AI tooling to extend coverage.
  • Comfort managing a pipeline quantitatively—coverage, conversion, and activity—and setting the targets the team is held to.
  • Willingness to travel regularly to targets, lenders, advisors, and key industry events.

Skills

Required:Origination strategy designDeal sourcingRelationship managementCRM and sourcing tools

Benefits

  • Executive Access: Work directly with C-suite leadership and brand CEOs—you will be in the room when acquisition decisions are made and your sourcing work will have visible impact on what CSC buys next.
  • Portfolio-Wide Leadership: Shape the origination strategy for a growing holding company with 13+ brands.
  • Build the Function: Define how CSC Generation finds and wins its next acquisitions with autonomy to design processes from the ground up.
  • Competitive Benefits: Paid time off policies, 401(k) match, medical/dental/vision and a variety of supplemental policies, and employee discounts across our portfolio of brands.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About CSC Generation

AI Native Retail Future: Commerce AGI

CSC Generation is the AI-native retail holding company. We modernize iconic brands with data, automation and our Genesis platform to build the future of Commerce AGI.

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