Head of Capital Partnerships

About the Role

Sinclair Ventures is seeking an experienced private capital executive to build and lead its Capital Partnerships function. The role will develop and manage a durable network of family offices and institutional allocators capable of investing alongside Sinclair in selected lower- and middle-market private equity transactions. Sinclair invests permanent capital and maintains full discretion over when and where it invests. Accordingly, the Capital Partnerships function is designed to support attractive Sinclair-led opportunities—not to create pressure to deploy capital.

The successful candidate will combine senior allocator relationships, strong private equity fluency, and the ability to execute co-investment processes quickly, credibly, and with a long-term relationship orientation.

The Executive We Are Looking For

• Established allocator relationships: Deep, senior-level relationships with family office principals, CIOs, and private capital allocators, supported by a demonstrable record of converting relationships into repeat investment commitments.
• Record of closed capital: Meaningful experience personally originating and closing third-party private capital, with clear attribution to commitments raised, investor relationships, and repeat participation.
• Relationship-driven approach: Builds trust through credibility, responsiveness, discretion, candor, and consistent follow-through. Success is defined by the quality and durability of the partner base, not simply aggregate dollars raised.
• Private equity fluency: Strong command of underwriting, capital structures, downside cases, co-investment economics, governance rights, allocations, vehicle structures, data rooms, and closing logistics.
• Executive communication: Able to translate Sinclair's investment strategy and transaction-specific underwriting into clear, compelling materials and conversations for sophisticated family offices and investment committees.

Responsibilities

Capital Partnerships Strategy

• Design and execute Sinclair Ventures' co-investment capital program, including target investor universe, coverage model, allocation framework, standard terms, and partner segmentation.
• Build and maintain a pre-qualified roster of family offices and allocators with known check sizes, sector preferences, governance requirements, and decision timelines.
• Develop a repeat partner base capable of investing at meaningful scale alongside Sinclair when a transaction meets the firm's underwriting standards.
• Ensure capital formation remains subordinate to Sinclair's investment discipline; support transactions that meet Sinclair's return and risk parameters rather than create pressure to deploy capital.

Deal-by-Deal Syndication

• Partner with the investment team during diligence to shape each co-investment offering, including sizing, structure, economics, target partners, and timing.
• Lead each syndication process from initial outreach through signed commitments and funding, coordinating materials, data room access, diligence questions, allocations, documentation, and closing logistics.
• Work with counsel and the deal team to negotiate co-investor terms, governance rights, and vehicle mechanics while preserving Sinclair's control of the investment process.
• Maintain the ability to move at deal speed while protecting long-term partner relationships and communicating allocations with transparency and consistency.

Investor Relations & Partner Management

• Serve as the primary ongoing relationship lead for capital partners, coordinating reporting, valuations, distributions, capital calls, and periodic portfolio updates on an institutional-quality cadence.
• Own Sinclair Ventures' capital-partner narrative and external materials, ensuring that messaging accurately reflects the firm's patient-capital strategy, underwriting discipline, and meaningful sponsor capital commitment.
• Represent Sinclair Ventures with family offices and allocators through targeted meetings, relevant industry forums, and Sinclair-hosted partner events.
• Track partner engagement, preferences, participation history, responsiveness, and relationship health to improve future transaction execution.

Internal Partnership & Firm Building

• Work closely with Sinclair's CEO, Executive Vice Chairman, Managing Director, investment team, finance, legal, and tax functions on capital planning and transaction execution.
• Establish institutional-quality processes, systems, and reporting for investor coverage, commitments, allocations, and partner communications.
• Provide market feedback to the investment team without allowing external investor appetite to influence Sinclair's core underwriting standards or deployment decisions.
• Help build a long-term capital partnerships capability that enhances Sinclair's flexibility, transaction capacity, and ability to support larger or more complex opportunities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in capital formation, private capital coverage, placement, investor relations, or a comparable role within private equity, investment banking, or an institutional investment platform.
• Deep, referenceable relationships with family office principals, CIOs, and private market allocators, with an attributable record of third-party capital closed and repeat participation.
• Strong command of private equity underwriting, transaction structures, co-investment economics, governance terms, and special-purpose or aggregator vehicles.
• Demonstrated ability to run time-sensitive deal-by-deal capital processes from investor targeting through funding.
• Exceptional interpersonal, written communication, and presentation skills, with credibility across family principals, investment committees, bankers, lawyers, and deal professionals.
• High integrity, discretion, sound judgment, and a long-term relationship orientation.
• Willingness to travel extensively for investor coverage and relationship development.
• Bachelor's degree required; M.B.A. or other relevant advanced degree preferred.

Pay

The base salary range for this role is $275,000 to $400,000, plus eligibility for a performance-based annual incentive and long-term incentives. Performance will reflect successful capital formation, transaction execution, partner retention, repeat participation, and the development of a durable co-investment network—not simply aggregate dollars raised. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location.

Benefits

• Participation in a retirement plan
• Life and disability insurance
• Health, dental, and vision plans
• Flexible spending accounts
• 15 paid vacation days
• 2 paid personal days
• 9 paid holidays
• 40 hours of paid sick leave
• Parental leave
• Employee stock purchase plan

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship, including employer sponsorship for an H-1B visa, OPT-STEM employment, etc.