Principal - Infrastructure Private Equity Job at Lieef, Irvine, CA

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  • Lieef
  • Irvine, CA

Job Description

About Lieef

Lieef is an emerging infrastructure investment platform purpose-built to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable real assets. We invest across the capital structure — in distributed infrastructure projects and operating companies. We are as much entrepreneurs as we are investors.

Lieef is backed by institutional capital and is actively deploying into investment opportunities.

Role Overview

We are hiring a Principal to work directly with the CEO across all aspects of firm building — from sourcing and executing deals to interfacing with LPs, shaping materials, and even standing up internal systems. This is not a single-lane role. It’s a generalist-athlete position for someone who thrives on complexity, ownership, and forward momentum.

This is a rare opportunity to help build a next-generation investment firm from the inside, with meaningful influence on how we invest, communicate, operate, and grow.

What You’ll Do

Deal Origination & Execution

  • Source new platform or project opportunities through founder/CEO outreach, channels, and creative sourcing
  • Own the full execution stack: diligence, modeling, structuring, legal coordination, and IC materials
  • Work directly with management teams to identify risks, structure alignment, and plan post-close execution

Strategic Business Building

  • Partner with the CEO on fundraising strategy, LP management, and ongoing investor communications
  • Build and refine internal decks, memos, and marketing materials (yes, you’ll make PowerPoints)
  • Identify and solve friction points in operations, workflows, and team scaling

Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves Execution

  • Set up internal tooling, CRM, data rooms, Airtable views — whatever’s needed
  • Jump in on IT, process, compliance, back-office, or operational gaps — we all do what’s required
  • Be an internal “Swiss Army Knife” who drives toward outcomes, not just analysis

What You Should Have

  • 5–8 years of experience in infrastructure private equity or a related investment strategy
  • Experience owning or co-leading deals from sourcing to close — and making them real post-close
  • Deep fluency in financial modeling, investment structuring, and legal documents
  • Ability to create institutional-grade materials and confidently present to LPs and partners
  • Comfort with ambiguity and rapid context-switching between investor, operator, and builder mindsets

You Might Be a Fit If You...

  • Enjoy solving problems of all kinds and hate being pigeonholed as one thing
  • Want to benefit directly from the value you help create
  • Default to action and iteration — and never say “that’s not my job”
  • Are just as comfortable debugging a data room as negotiating a term sheet (you’re tech-savvy)
  • Know how to manage complexity without adding process for its own sake
  • Prefer hands-off management and minimal oversight, so you can get creative solving the bigger-picture tasks
  • Aren’t interested in corporate politics or popularity contests
  • Want to build something — or have seriously considered joining a startup in Silicon Valley
  • Would rather earn more by betting on your ability to influence outcomes than work in a big firm where delivering 10x still gets you the same comp as everyone else

Notable Compensation Item

Upside participation, including the potential for management company economics, may be available to the right candidate.

Location

Open to candidates living in Los Angeles in addition to the Orange County area.

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