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We acquire iconic brands and transform them with Genesis, our operating platform combining a Data Fabric, Automation Engine, proprietary tools, and shared services to modernize operations, elevate customer experience, and expand margins. With $1B+ in revenue across 13 brands, our portfolio includes Sur La Table, Backcountry, One Kings Lane, and others that serve as real-world innovation labs.\nReports to: Executive Leadership\nLocation: Los Angeles, California; Austin, Texas, or Salt Lake City, UT - Hybrid Required\nAbout the Role\nAcquisitions are how CSC Generation grows, making the front end of the deal pipeline one of the most consequential functions in the company. As Director, M&A Origination, you will build and own the acquisition funnel-sourcing proprietary opportunities, cultivating intermediary relationships, and putting actionable deals in front of the investment team that we would never have seen otherwise.\nIn your first 6-12 months, success means a living, data-driven pipeline with measurable coverage across our target markets, a growing network of bankers and advisors who call you first, and at least one proprietary opportunity advancing toward close. You will work in partnership with our existing Director of Origination, dividing coverage across channels and categories while reporting directly into senior leadership.\nThis is a lean team. You will own a lot, move fast, and make decisions with full end-to-end responsibility.\nWhat You'll Do\nPipeline Development & Market Coverage\nBuild and maintain the acquisition funnel end to end-map the universe of target companies across our focus markets, keep coverage current, and ensure no relevant business transacts without CSC knowing about it.\nSegment the target universe, run structured outreach cadences, and sustain relationships across multi-year cultivation cycles.\nMaintain pipeline discipline and reporting-coverage, conversion, activity, and relationship status-so the entire team can see the state of the market without asking.\nProprietary Deal Sourcing\nOriginate proprietary opportunities by engaging directly with owners, founders, and management teams before a formal process exists.\nOwn and expand the intermediary network across investment banks, brokers, lenders, specialty-finance firms, and restructuring advisors so CSC is the first call when an asset comes to market.\nLeverage modern sourcing platforms (DealCloud, Grata, Sourcescrub, Affinity, Apollo, or equivalents) and AI tooling to extend coverage beyond what manual effort alone can reach.\nDeal Qualification & Execution Support\nScreen opportunities against investment criteria, build the initial commercial case, and make a clear recommendation on whether to pursue or pass.\nRemain the relationship owner through close on deals you originate-step into the deal process wherever you add leverage while keeping origination as your primary focus.\nMarket Representation & Network Growth\nRepresent CSC credibly with owners, boards, and advisors-articulate what we do with acquired businesses, how we treat teams, and why our offers hold.\nManage referral and external advisor networks so sourcing capacity scales faster than headcount.\nRequired Qualifications\n6-10 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.\nDemonstrable track record of sourcing transactions that closed-proprietary or limited-process deals you personally found, cultivated, and advanced.\nEstablished relationships across bankers, brokers, lenders, and advisors in the middle market, with the standing to open doors on your own name.\nInvesting acumen sufficient to size a business, read a capital structure, and form a view on whether an opportunity is worth pursuing.\nProven ability to build a funnel from scratch-constructing the target universe, segmenting it, running outreach, and sustaining relationships across long cultivation cycles.\nFluency with sourcing and CRM platforms (DealCloud, Grata, Sourcescrub, Affinity, Apollo, or equivalents) and genuine comfort using AI tooling to extend coverage.\nComfort managing a pipeline quantitatively-coverage, conversion, and activity metrics-rather than from memory.\nHigh ownership mindset with willingness to travel regularly to targets, lenders, advisors, and key industry events.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience in consumer, retail, ecommerce, or multi-unit businesses.\nExposure to carve-outs, distressed, or special-situation investing.\nWhy Join\nThe people who do best here are builders. They take ownership, move fast, and want to see the direct impact of their work.\nExecutive 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.\nPortfolio-Wide Leadership: Shape the origination strategy for a growing holding company with 13+ brands rather than operating within a single business unit-high performers are entrusted with greater responsibility and leadership opportunities across the portfolio.\nBuild the Function: Define how CSC Generation finds and wins its next acquisitions. You are not inheriting a playbook; you are writing it, with AI-first tooling and the autonomy to design processes from the ground up.\n 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.\nInterview Process\nRecruiter Screen - A 30-minute conversation with our recruiting team to align on the role, your background, and what you are looking for.\nHiring Manager Interview - Conversation with Corporate Development leadership focused on your sourcing track record, network depth, and how you approach building a pipeline.\nSourcing Challenge - A short take-home exercise so we can understand how you build a funnel and approach execution.\nExecutive Interview - Deep-dive session with CSC senior leadership covering deal origination history, relationship network, and strategic fit.\n In-Person Interview - We'd like to meet you at our nearest office (Los Angeles, Austin, or Salt Lake City). Details and logistics will be arranged with your recruiter.\nReference Checks - Conducted in parallel with the final stages where possible.\n Offer - We move quickly for the right candidate.\nInterview process is subject to change. 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