Role summary
We're hiring a Deal Operations Manager to drive execution across our secondary transactions — both buy-side and sell-side — as well as our co-investment book. This is a hands-on, business-oriented role for someone with a legal background who wants to own deal execution and operations rather than practise law. You'll run multiple live deals at once, keep documentation airtight, and get transactions from term sheet through to signing, closing, and settlement cleanly and on time.
Within the VC secondaries space, we acquire and dispose on behalf of own funds, execute structured deals, and run a co-investment book where we work alongside existing LPs and distribution partners. You'll be the connective tissue between the investment team, deal counterparties, finance ops, and IR — managing the paperwork and the process so nothing slips when several deals are moving in parallel. Reporting into the Managing Partner, you'll also help shape and scale how the deal machine runs.
What you'll do
· Drive execution of secondary transactions end to end — buy-side and sell-side — managing timelines, checklists, closing mechanics, and stakeholder handoffs across concurrent deals.
· Prepare and manage the full deal paperwork set — purchase and transfer agreements, subscriptions and side letters, post-closing paperwork — working alongside external counsel, where necessary, as well as finops team, flagging potential commercial and legal issues to the investment team.
· Support the co-investment book, coordinating with existing LPs and distribution partners on the documentation and execution needed to bring them into deals.
· Handle transaction-related compliance and control matters like fund/SPV onboarding, and maintaining accurate records and audit trails across the deal lifecycle.
· Navigate US deal structures and entities (Delaware LLCs/LPs, SPVs, common US secondary and fund vehicles), coordinating with US counsel where needed.
· Work through our investor portal and lean into our tech stack — using and helping improve AI-based automations and workflow tooling so execution scales with deal volume.
· Partner closely with finance ops (who sit within the process) and build the operational infrastructure — playbooks, templates, trackers, and process — that keeps the deal pipeline running.
What we're looking for
· A legal background — qualified lawyer or paralegal, or equivalent training — with a clear preference for building an operational, commercial career rather than a purely legal one.
· Mid-level experience (roughly 3–6 years) in deal support, transaction execution, or deal operations, ideally in venture capital, private equity, secondaries, a law firm's corporate/funds practice, or a fund administrator.
· Direct exposure to closings — you've managed execution, coordinated signatures, and gotten deals over the line, ideally several at once.
· Familiarity with secondary VC transactions strongly preferred, across both buy- and sell-side, and genuine interest in the secondaries market.
· Working understanding of US corporate and fund structures and how they show up in cross-border deals.
· Strong tech proficiency — comfortable working through investor portals and deal tooling, and genuinely interested in AI-driven automation and building better workflows.
· Exceptional organisation and attention to detail — you run tight checklists, juggle many moving parts across parallel deals, and don't let things fall through the cracks.
· A business-oriented, commercial mindset: pragmatic, solutions-focused, and comfortable making judgment calls rather than escalating everything.
· Strong communication and stakeholder management — you can hold your own with both internal and external counterparties.
· Comfortable in a fast-moving, lean environment where you'll wear multiple hats and help build process as you go.
Nice to have
Prior experience at a secondaries-focused fund, platform, or advisor; exposure to co-investment or LP-led transactions; familiarity with fund administration; experience implementing or working with deal automation and portal tooling; and any US legal or transactional experience.
