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About the Role
Foundational is building AI-native autonomous factories to reshore critical supply chains, enabling domestic production of high-quality products quickly and cost-effectively. This role is crucial for scaling the company by leading underwriting, diligence, and capital formation, acting as the link between industrial operations and capital markets.
Responsibilities
- Lead underwriting, diligence, and capital formation across Foundational's platforms.
- Partner directly with the CEO on deal execution and investor engagement.
- Establish initial LP and co-investor relationships.
- Secure first close or significant capital commitment for at least one Foundational investment vehicle.
- Build a deal pipeline with qualified origination channels.
- Underwrite and close two or more manufacturing facility acquisitions or retrofit investments.
- Institutionalize the capital formation process, including investor reporting, LP communications, and capital stack management.
- Articulate the investment strategy internally and externally.
- Manage legal, technical, and operations workstreams simultaneously during execution.
- Walk a factory floor and ask the right questions.
Requirements
- 10+ years in private equity, investment banking, corporate development, or a comparable investment role inside an industrial operator or strategic investor.
- Ability to build LBO and DCF models from scratch and stress-test manufacturing unit economics.
- Experience raising capital from institutional LPs, family offices, or strategic investors.
- Experience evaluating industrial, infrastructure, or real-asset investments.
- Experience writing IC memos and investment materials that secured deals.
- Ability to manage legal, technical, and operations workstreams simultaneously.
- Ability to walk a factory floor and ask pertinent questions.
Skills
- Private equity
- Investment banking
- Corporate development
- LBO modeling
- DCF modeling
- Capital formation
- Investor relations
- Financial modeling
- Deal execution
- Due diligence
- Industrial investments
- Real-asset investments
- Operations analysis
Location
- NYC
Work Type
- Full-Time
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Benefits
- Base compensation
- Bonus
- Equity
About the Company
- Foundational is building a network of AI-native, autonomous factories for modern contract manufacturing.
- We are reshoring critical supply chains so companies can produce high-quality products domestically, quickly, and at competitive cost.
- Recent breakthroughs in robotics and physical AI have shifted autonomous manufacturing from theoretical to deployable.
- We're focused on operationalizing these capabilities at scale during a decisive decade for American industrial leadership.
- We're turning reindustrialization from a talking point into an operating reality.
- The work is hard, the environment is demanding, and the stakes are real.
- Foundational offers the opportunity to help define one of the most consequential industrial transformations of the next decade.
Equal Opportunity
- Foundational Industries is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- Foundational complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.
- We evaluate every candidate on what they can do and who they are.