Deal Origination Associate at Vantierr

About Vantierr

Vantierr builds proprietary deal flow for advisory firms, capital providers, and specialized service partners. We combine data, research, and outbound origination to identify opportunities before they reach broad market processes.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Deal Origination Associate to identify, engage, and qualify opportunities across private markets. You will work directly with leadership to source conversations with business owners, investors, lenders, advisors, and commercial real estate sponsors.

This is a revenue-generating role focused on creating qualified opportunities through research, outreach, relationship building, and pipeline management.

Responsibilities

- Source prospective companies, sponsors, and intermediaries using proprietary datasets and market intelligence.
- Execute outreach campaigns via email, LinkedIn, phone, and other channels.
- Conduct initial qualification calls and discovery conversations.
- Build relationships with business owners, executives, advisors, lenders, investors, and operators.
- Maintain accurate CRM records and pipeline reporting.
- Monitor market events, debt maturities, acquisitions, financings, and other deal signals.
- Coordinate meetings between prospects and senior team members.
- Support live mandates and strategic sourcing initiatives.
- Generate market intelligence reports and opportunity briefs.

Qualifications

Required

- 1-3 years of experience in one or more of:
- Investment Banking
- Private Equity
- Commercial Real Estate
- Business Development
- M&A; Advisory
- Capital Markets
- Executive Search
- B2B Sales
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Highly organized and process-oriented.




- Comfortable conducting outreach and speaking with senior executives.
- Ability to analyze companies and identify potential transaction opportunities.
- Proficiency with CRM systems and spreadsheet tools.

Preferred

- Experience sourcing deals or investment opportunities.
- Understanding of M&A;, capital raising, debt financing, or commercial real estate transactions.
- Familiarity with Apollo, Clay, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, HubSpot, Affinity, or similar tools.
- Existing network within private markets, advisory, or real estate ecosystems.

Ideal Candidate The idóneo candidate is naturally curious, commercially minded, and enjoys uncovering opportunities others miss. They are comfortable researching companies for hours, initiating conversations with strangers, and building relationships over time.

You should enjoy

- Finding opportunities before competitors.
- Speaking with founders, executives, and investors.
- Working in a fast-moving entrepreneurial environment.
- Using data and research to drive commercial outcomes.

Compensation
- Base salary + performance bonuses.
- Opportunity for significant upside tied to sourced opportunities and closed business.
- Remote-first environment.
- Direct exposure to founders and private market participants.

Success Metrics (First 12 Months)
- Qualified opportunities generated.
- Meetings booked with target accounts.
- Pipeline value created.
- Revenue influenced.
- Data accuracy and research output.
- Conversion rates across the origination funnel.
- For Vantierr specifically, I'd strongly bias toward candidates with commercial real estate debt, M&A; sourcing, private equity sourcing, investment banking analyst, or executive search backgrounds . Those skill sets transfer exceptionally well to deal origination.

📌 Deal Origination Associate (Madrid)
🏢 Vantierr
📍 Madrid