About the Role
Own our AI-powered M&A platform, enabling the team to identify, prospect, diligence, and close acquisitions with unfair leverage. This role requires designing and building data-intensive applications with minimal product oversight and a focus on rapid iteration and delivering results.
Responsibilities
- Partner deeply with cross-functional teams to understand constraints, challenges, and opportunities associated with our M&A process.
- Leverage software, data, and artificial intelligence to maximize the quality and number of businesses acquired per FTE.
- Own the M&A platform end-to-end, including roadmap, implementation, and ongoing support/enablement.
- Improve and own the system architecture, including data ingestion, entity resolution, enrichment, scoring models, and storage.
- Identify, prototype, and deploy internal tools and workflows to increase time spent meeting with prospective sellers and decrease time analyzing data or drafting memos.
- Build integrations and automations via APIs, webhooks, and tools like Zapier/Make to maintain data cleanliness and synchronize business systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of software and/or data engineering experience, with demonstrated depth in GTM-oriented work.
- Strong product intuition and the ability to translate business workflows into well-architected technical solutions.
- Bias towards rapid iteration and using third-party tools where possible; prioritizing delivery of results over writing code.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Skills
- Web crawling
- Entity resolution
- Data ingestion
- Data enrichment
- Scoring models
- API integration
- Webhook integration
- Zapier
- Make
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years of software and/or data engineering experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
Salary/Compensations
- $150K - $200K
Benefits
- Discretionary performance-based bonus
- Equity
About the Company
- American Operator believes the American Dream is worth protecting and that small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
- The mission is to preserve the legacy of America’s small businesses and create more pathways to meaningful ownership.
- The company partners with operators who want to step into leadership, take responsibility for great companies, and continue the work that founders spent decades building.
- Success is measured in deals closed and businesses grown, with the reward of seeing companies continue to serve their people and towns, stronger than before.
Equal Opportunity
- We need a team that reflects the real world: operators, builders, investors, and problem-solvers from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences.
