Director, Deal Team, Secondary Markets

Job summary

European hours preferred. Open to candidates based in Italy, the UK, the US East Coast, or Canada. Employment Type: Full-Time Reports to: Founders Company Description Tan*** is a fast-growing, tech-enabled platform providing liquidity solutions to LPs and GPs in the private markets secondaries ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Partner with Product, BD, and Compliance to translate lived deal experience into standardised workflows, buyer profiles, and platform capabilities.
• You are a senior transactional professional with a demonstrable track record of leading complex private-market transactions from origination through close.
• To succeed in this role, you bring:
• 10+ years in private-market transactions, with a material portion in secondaries, private equity, fund-of-funds, or adjacent private-markets M&A advisory.
• Prior experience at Vice President, Director level at a secondaries advisor, investment bank, financial sponsors / M&A team, or similar institution.
• A clear track record of leading transactions from origination to close, including owning the hardest commercial and legal negotiations.
• A strong external network across GPs, LPs, advisors, and institutional counterparties.
• Experience building, managing, and mentoring a deal team or sub-team.
• An entrepreneurial mindset and genuine appetite to work in a high-growth, tech-enabled environment where process and infrastructure are still being built.
• Clear, direct communication, written and verbal, with sophisticated external counterparties and internal stakeholders.
• Bonus points if you have:
• Secondaries experience at a tier-one advisor (e.g.

Responsibilities

• You will personally lead live deals, not just oversee them.
• You will manage and mentor a team of Deal Managers and Analysts, set the bar for execution quality, and shape how Tan*** scales its deal-making capacity through people, process, and platform.
• You will represent Tan*** externally at principal level with GPs, LPs, placement agents, and institutional counterparties.
• The platform is young, the deal flow is complex, and you will be expected to get into the details of the hardest conversations.

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