Private Equity - Business Development Manager

ProsperOps is the category leader in autonomous cloud cost optimization, founded by the leaders behind Rackspace's AWS Managed Services Business. We use sophisticated algorithms, AI, and automation to generate world class savings outcomes for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, while minimizing our customers' risk. We have over $5 billion dollars of cloud spend under management and serve sophisticated teams like Coinbase, Canva, SeatGeek, and TD Synnex. The cloud is incredibly powerful, but operating it cost effectively is complicated and time-consuming. Our mission is to remove complexity and deliver savings outcomes so every business can prosper in the cloud. We're a fully remote team, so 100% of our roles are open to applicants anywhere in the region in which the role is advertised.

We are expanding our Private Equity (PE) Channel program and are hiring a high-impact

Private Equity Business Development Manager

to help scale our relationships with investment firms and their portfolio companies. This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing team where you'll gain direct exposure to our top PE and VC partners, and contribute to pipeline growth, field marketing, and partner success.

You’ll be responsible for relationship management, partner reporting, and event support. This role blends partnership enablement with data-driven storytelling, ideal for someone with strong commercial instincts and a passion for the PE ecosystem.

What You’ll Do

Partner & Portfolio Engagemen

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• Manage monthly and quarterly calls with PE firms to grow, influence, and source opportunities
• Represent the company at select industry events, including supporting field execution and account mapping
• Build QBR decks, reporting packets, and insight briefs for partners on portfolio engagement

Data & Reporting

• Build and maintain reporting on PE-influenced and PE-sourced pipeline and revenue
• Track and systematize engagements across multiple investment firms and their portfolio companies
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders (Sales, Marketing, RevOps) to maintain CRM hygiene and pipeline visibility

Market & Firm Research

• Research new PE firms and map whitespace within existing portfolios
• Support outreach to 3+ new investment firm partners in your first 6 months

Team Collaboration

• Participate in weekly strategy meetings with VP of Partnerships
• Be mentored on PE acumen, sales strategy, and professional development with a clear growth track

Who You Are

• 1-3 years of experience in partnerships, business development, investment research, or analyst roles
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and the major hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Interest in, or understanding of, the Private Equity ecosystem
• Highly organized, data-driven, and thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Strong communication and negotiating skills, written and verbal, with comfort preparing and presenting materials to external stakeholders because you like to sell to prospects
• Experience in SaaS or cloud-native companies is a plus

Why Join

You’ll be joining a business that deeply values the PE channel as a strategic growth lever. In this role, you’ll get to build meaningful relationships across the investment community, drive real pipeline impact, and learn firsthand what it takes to scale a high-growth GTM partnerships motion. And you'll do it with mentorship, ownership, and visibility.

ProsperOps, a Flexera company, is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  Qualified applicants will be considered for open roles regardless of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local/national laws, policies and/or regulations.

ProsperOps understands the value that results from employing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce. We recognize that equity necessitates acknowledging past exclusion and that inclusion requires intentional effort. Our DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) council is the driving force behind our commitment to championing policies and practices that foster a welcoming environment for all.

We encourage candidates requiring accommodations to please let us know by emailing [email protected].