Vice President, M&A Origination

CSC Generation is the AI-native holding company re-engineering omnichannel retail. It acquires iconic brands and transforms them with Genesis, its operating platform combining a Data Fabric, Automation Engine, proprietary tools, and shared services to modernize operations, elevate customer experience, and expand margins. With $1B+ in revenue across 13 brands, its portfolio includes Sur La Table, Backcountry, One Kings Lane, and others.

Location: Los Angeles, California; Austin, Texas, or Salt Lake City, UT - Hybrid Required

About The Role

Acquisitions are how CSC Generation grows, making the front end of the deal pipeline one of the most consequential functions in the company. As Vice President, M&A Origination, you will set the strategy for where to look and why, build the relationships that produce proprietary opportunities, and surface businesses that would never be found through a standard process.

Within the first year, success means a fully built origination engine - defined coverage markets, a growing proprietary pipeline, a systematized intermediary network, and qualified opportunities advancing through the investment process.

What You'll Do

Origination Strategy & Market Coverage: Own the origination strategy end to end - size each market, map the universe of companies that fit CSC's acquisition criteria, identify new categories for expansion, and set the bolt-on strategy for existing platforms.

Deal Sourcing & Relationship Management: Source proprietary opportunities directly from owners, founders, and management teams before a formal process exists. Build and systematize the intermediary network of investment banks, corporate development teams, brokers, lenders, specialty-finance firms, and restructuring advisors.

Qualification, Execution & Pipeline Discipline: Screen opportunities against investment criteria, build the initial commercial case, and present a clear recommendation to the investment team with market context, seller motivation, valuation, and risk. Stay with deals through close.

Required Qualifications

10-15 years in private equity, investment banking, or a comparable principal-investing environment with business development or deal origination as a major component of the role.

Track record of sourcing transactions that closed at volume - proprietary or limited-process deals personally found, cultivated, and advanced.

Deep, current network across bankers, brokers, corporate development teams, lenders, and advisors in the middle market.

Investing judgment sufficient to evaluate whether an opportunity is worth pursuing and to defend that view to an investment committee.

Fluency with sourcing and CRM platforms (DealCloud, Grata, Sourcescrub, Affinity, Apollo, or equivalents).

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in consumer, retail, ecommerce, or multi-unit businesses.

Exposure to carve-outs, distressed, and special-situations transactions.