Hiring: Deal Origination Associate Company: Atomic Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:54:55 Target Skills & Keywords : Embedded Systems, Pest, Sanity About the job Experience: •2-5 years in deal sourcing / origination at a private equity firm, holding company, or search fund. •5 years in deal sourcing / origination at a private equity firm, holding company, or search fund. Required Skills: •You are the tip of the spear. Your job is to find, engage, and build multi-year trust relationships with software founders in 25+ niche verticals so that when they decide to sell, we are the only call they make. •This is not a warm-inbound seat. It's not investment banking. It's outbound origination + relationship compounding + deal quarterbacking •The exact function that separates Constellation's operating groups from every wannabe roll-up that has flamed out. •Own the top of funnel end-to-end. •Build and maintain a proprietary pipeline of 2,000+ target companies across our buy box, mapped by vertical, ARR, ownership structure, and readiness-to-sell signals. •100+ meaningful founder touches per week - cold email, LinkedIn, phone, handwritten notes, in-person visits. We measure conversations, not activity theater. •Build 3-year relationships. •Most founders in our verticals sell once. Your win rate is a function of being the trusted party in their inbox for years before the LOI conversation happens. Compensation: •2-5 years in deal sourcing / origination at a private equity firm, holding company, or search fund Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!