Avenue Growth Partners is an early growth equity firm headquartered in Washington DC that partners with founders of high growth, capital efficient, vertical market SaaS businesses throughout the United States and Canada. Avenue is an ambitious, nimble and performance oriented organization committed to building a lasting firm with industry-leading returns. Currently investing out of an $83m Fund I (2021 vintage), we are seeking a strategic CFO to join our growing team.
This role is ideal for the high-agency candidate excited about directly influencing our investment, value creation and back-office operations. This individual will work directly with the founding partners (Ryan Russell & Brian Goldsmith) to develop and extend best practices in all areas of our business. As a result of this distinctive mandate, we are open to candidates from a variety of backgrounds such as COO/CFOs at private market investment firms, CFOs at high performing SaaS companies or Principal + level private markets investors.
Role Mandate
Investment operations: continuously refine the firm's ability to focus our investment team on the highest and best uses of our time.
Value creation initiatives: co-create the early growth category's leading value creation program focused on elevating previously bootstrapped businesses into institutionally backed vertical SaaS platforms.
Back-office operations: manage the entirety of our back-office footprint (fund administration, accounting, tax, compliance and employee benefits) while increasingly participating in fundraising and LP communications.
Role Specifics
Location: Washington, DC (in-person strongly preferred)
Compensation: competitive package (base, bonus, carried interest and benefits) commensurate with previous work experience