Managing Partner & President, Private Equity Growth & Strategy

Urrly is building the talent infrastructure lower-middle-market private equity firms need when critical hires directly impact growth, margin, execution, and enterprise value.

This is a company-building ownership role for someone who can win trusted private equity relationships, convert those relationships into revenue, learn our search model from the inside out, and help scale Urrly into the modern hiring platform sponsors and portfolio companies use for critical leadership and functional hires.

This is not a conventional executive search partner role, a narrow business development seat, or a polished president role inside a mature company. You will help build the machine while carrying real commercial and operating responsibility.

The right person brings PE credibility, revenue ownership, talent judgment, AI fluency, and the builder energy required to scale something from the ground up.

The Opportunity

High-stakes hiring is still too slow, too manual, too expensive, and too dependent on weak signals. That problem is especially painful in lower-middle-market private equity, where one strong or weak leadership hire can materially change the trajectory of a portfolio company.

Urrly’s first wedge is value-creation search: critical leadership and functional hires that help PE-backed companies execute faster, professionalize the business, improve operating discipline, and create enterprise value.

Over time, the ambition is bigger than executive search. We are building toward a hiring platform that combines high-trust human judgment with AI-enabled speed, structure, and signal.

What You Will Own

You will own the growth and operating strategy for Urrly’s private equity business.

That includes building trusted sponsor and portfolio-company relationships, converting those relationships into signed work, shaping the commercial model, sharpening the category narrative, and helping build the delivery engine required to scale beyond founder-led execution.

Early in the role, you should expect to get close to the work: intake, role definition, candidate assessment, client calibration, and selected searches. That hands-on phase is not busywork. It is how you learn what to scale.

Over time, the role should graduate toward PE relationship ownership, executive-level search strategy, account growth, team development, operating leverage, and building a repeatable delivery engine.

What Success Looks Like

Success means Urrly becomes more credible, more commercially effective, and more scalable in the lower-middle-market PE ecosystem.

You will be expected to:

• Build trusted relationships with PE sponsors, operating partners, portfolio executives, and human capital decision makers
• Convert those relationships into signed searches, repeat clients, and stronger commercial terms
• Produce or materially influence meaningful revenue, including a path toward $1M+ in annual revenue contribution
• Help create at least three repeat PE firm clients
• Improve Urrly’s value-creation search narrative, delivery model, and AI-enabled operating workflows
• Help develop future delivery or business development talent as the model scales

What Makes You a Strong Fit

You may be a strong fit if you combine PE fluency, commercial ownership, operating judgment, talent judgment, and builder energy.

You have consistently interfaced with lower-middle-market PE GPs, operating partners, deal team members, portfolio operations leaders, talent leaders, portfolio-company executives, or similarly sophisticated business buyers.

You have clear evidence that you can create opportunities, open relationships, expand accounts, convert trust into revenue, and carry meaningful commercial responsibility.

You do not need to have spent your whole career in executive search, but you need the judgment and willingness to learn the workflow deeply. Great hiring is not just matching resumes to job descriptions. It is defining the work, understanding what value creation actually requires, assessing signal, calibrating clients, and helping both sides move with confidence.

You can speak in business-outcome language. You understand how leadership, systems, GTM, finance, operations, talent, AI, and execution affect enterprise value.

Relevant backgrounds may include private equity-facing consulting, commercial diligence, GTM, operations improvement, transformation, investment banking, sponsor coverage, human capital, portfolio talent, retained search, talent advisory, or professional services growth.

AI Fluency

You do not need to be an engineer, but you should be using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar systems frequently enough that AI leverage is part of how you work, learn, research, synthesize, assess, and build.

You are curious enough that, even if AI was not part of your formal job, you found ways to use it because you could not help yourself.

Builder Mindset

You are energized by ambiguity, responsibility, pressure, and upside.

You are willing to write outreach, review candidates, run calls, build pipeline, attend conferences, diagnose process problems, and do the unglamorous work required to build something excellent.

This is a remote role in a high-intensity, early-stage company-building environment. The pace is real. The ambiguity is real. So is the ownership.

Compensation and Ownership

Base salary is expected to land in the $150,000–$200,000 range, with flexibility for an exceptional candidate. The role also includes significant equity designed to reflect the company-building nature of the seat.

This is a real ownership role, not a conventional mature-company executive package. For the right person, this starts with a true Managing Partner & President mandate and can grow into broader company leadership over time based on demonstrated impact.

Kyle remains Founder/CEO. This person will help run and scale the business in partnership with him.

Why This Role

If you want a safe executive role at a mature company, this is not it.

If you want a high-ownership seat helping build the talent platform lower-middle-market private equity needs for the next decade, this could be exactly the right kind of hard.

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