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Senior Associate, M&A Origination

CSC Generation· Finance
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Hybrid (Los Angeles, CA)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Associate, M&A Origination at CSC Generation leading front-end acquisition generation: market mapping, outreach, and initial conversations to build a scalable origination pipeline in a hybrid Los Angeles setting.

Responsibilities

  • Build the market maps that drive acquisition strategy—size target markets, identify companies that fit investment criteria, track competitive buyer activity, and produce the target lists and coverage plans the team works against for both new categories and bolt-on acquisitions.
  • Develop a defensible point of view on your sectors by conducting primary industry research on market trends, consolidation dynamics, buyer activity, and clearing multiples.
  • Build and maintain the target universe that everything else runs on—construct and enrich company profiles, keep ownership and financing detail current, and ensure the team operates from a complete and accurate picture.
  • Run outreach at volume and with judgment—open conversations with owners, founders, and management teams before a formal process exists to get CSC in front of businesses early.
  • Support coverage of the banker, broker, lender, and advisor network—maintain the relationship map, prepare for meetings, run follow-up, and ensure nothing goes cold.
  • Screen inbound and sourced opportunities against investment criteria and build the initial commercial case—market context, seller motivation, indicative valuation, and key risks—so the team can decide quickly whether to engage.
  • Stay with opportunities you source as they go live—support the deal team through diligence and deal documents, contributing until close.
  • Own pipeline hygiene, reporting, and tooling—keep the CRM accurate, publish coverage and conversion metrics, and build automations and AI workflows that let a small team cover a large market.

Qualifications

  • 3–6 years in investment banking, private equity, corporate development, or transaction advisory with meaningful exposure to deal sourcing or business development.
  • Demonstrated ability to generate activity—outreach you have run, relationships you have opened, or a pipeline you have helped build.
  • Solid financial literacy: ability to size a business, read a P&L and capital structure, and build a credible first-pass commercial case.
  • Strong research skills—able to build a market map from scratch, identify non-obvious targets, and assemble accurate ownership and financing profiles.
  • Fluency with sourcing and CRM platforms (DealCloud, Grata, Sourcescrub, Affinity, Apollo, or equivalents) and genuine comfort using AI tooling to extend coverage.
  • Comfort working quantitatively on coverage, conversion, and activity metrics, with the rigor to keep a pipeline clean without being asked.
  • High ownership mindset—you will be measured on the pipeline you build and the deals that close from it.
  • Willingness to travel regularly to targets, lenders, advisors, and key industry events.

Skills

Required:Market mappingSourcing and outreachFinancial analysisCRM & sourcing platforms

Benefits

  • 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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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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