Executive Director – GP Solutions

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Role Summary
NLG Capital is seeking an accomplished Executive Director to join our GP Solutions team, focused on building long-term partnerships with private asset managers. This role is responsible for sourcing, underwriting, and executing investments in asset managers and developing insurance-optimized strategies that advance NLG Capital’s objectives as a best-in-class insurance investment platform.

The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in GP Staking and platform underwriting, motivated by the opportunity to deploy permanent, insurance-aligned capital into partnerships that combine alignment of interests, proprietary deal flow, and sustainable long-term growth.

Key Responsibilities

GP Investments

• Underwrite and execute GP and platform-level investments in private asset managers.
• Structure and negotiate investments that provide governance rights, long-term economic alignment, and access to proprietary pipelines.
• Drive post-investment engagement to deepen relationships and unlock co-investment and new product opportunities.

Market Mapping & Intelligence

• Maintain a dynamic market map of the private asset ecosystem, with focus on asset manager M&A, minority stake opportunities, and capital formation trends.
• Identify high-potential managers across private credit, real assets, and specialty finance.
• Monitor new entrants, capital raisers, consolidators, and specialty platforms with partnership potential.
• Bring a forward-leaning perspective on how asset manager business models are evolving and where value is being created.

Insurance-Aligned Strategy Development

• Partner with GPs to design differentiated, insurance-optimized strategies in private credit, asset backed finance, and real estate.
• Assess business plans, platform growth strategies, and manager economics for alignment with NLG Capital’s risk-return and liability-matching objectives.
• Build a repeatable framework for seeding new products that meet insurance and institutional capital requirements.

Cross-Functional & External Collaboration

• Work across legal, finance, and executive leadership to structure and close complex transactions.
• Represent NLG Capital externally with GPs, LPs, and other stakeholders, positioning the firm as a partner of choice in GP Solutions.
• Contribute to internal strategy, helping define NLG Capital’s differentiated role in the private markets ecosystem.

Qualifications

Experience

• 12+ years in private equity, private credit, investment banking, or asset management M&A.
• Strong preference for experience underwriting GP or platform-level investments in credit, structured finance, or real assets.
• Familiarity with liability-driven investing, and insurance regulatory capital frameworks is considered a plus.

Skills & Attributes

• Exceptional skills in financial modeling, valuation, and transaction structuring.
• Ability to evaluate both manager-level economics and platform-level strategic value.
• Strong investment committee and presentation skills.
• Entrepreneurial, collaborative, and low-ego approach.
• Proven ability to source, structure, and execute GP investments that deliver differentiated outcomes.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA, CFA, or equivalent credentials preferred.

Benefits and Compensation

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!
• The base salary range for this role is between $233,750 - $330,000 annually. We are open to varying levels of experience.

The base compensation range represents the low and high end of the range for this position. Actual compensation will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to qualifications, skills, competencies, location, and experience. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees.

Other rewards may include an annual bonus, quarterly bonuses, commissions, and other long-term incentive compensation, depending on the position. National Life offers a competitive total rewards package which includes: a 401(k) retirement plan match; medical, dental, and vision insurance; a company funded wellness account for director and below employees; 10 paid holidays; a generous paid time off plan (22 days of combined time-off for non-exempt employees and exempt employees have discretion in managing their time, including scheduling time off in the normal course of business, but in no event will exempt employees receive less sick time than required by state or local law); 6 weeks of paid parental leave; and 6 weeks of paid family leave after a year of full-time employment.

National Life is accepting applications for this role on an ongoing basis and the role remains open until filled.

National Life Group® is a trade name of National Life Insurance Company, Montpelier, VT – founded in 1848, Life Insurance Company of the Southwest, Addison, TX – chartered in 1955, and their affiliates. Each company of National Life Group is solely responsible for its own financial condition and contractual obligations. Life Insurance Company of the Southwest is not an authorized insurer in New York and does not conduct insurance business in New York. Equity Services, Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC, is a Broker/Dealer and Registered Investment Adviser affiliate of National Life Insurance Company. All other entities are independent of the companies of National Life Group.

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