Senior Associate, Investment Team
Overview LLR Partners is seeking a Senior Associate to join its Investment Team focused primarily in the Healthcare sector, based in Philadelphia. This role is a meaningful opportunity for an investment professional to help identify, evaluate, execute, and support investments in growing software, technology, and healthcare businesses across the lower middle market. This individual would be a core member of LLR’s deal team where they would be involved across the full investment lifecycle, from market mapping and thesis development to diligence, transaction execution, and portfolio company support. The role offers significant exposure to senior investment professionals, management teams, intermediaries, and portfolio company leaders, with increasing responsibility for shaping investment theses and driving workstreams. The right candidate brings a strong foundation in investment banking and private equity, with experience evaluating healthcare, software, technology, and/or lower middle market businesses. They are analytical, commercially minded, and able to turn complex information into clear investment insight. Accountabilities Evaluate new investment opportunities across SaaS / Healthcare markets, including platform investments, add-ons, growth equity investments, recapitalizations, and buyouts. Develop research-driven investment theses by identifying attractive markets, mapping competitive landscapes, assessing market structure, and forming a view on where LLR can create differentiated value. Conduct investment analysis, including financial modeling, valuation, unit economics, cohort analysis, customer and revenue quality, market sizing, competitive positioning, and assessment of key business drivers. Synthesize incomplete or conflicting information, identify the most important diligence questions, pressure-test assumptions, and assess fit with LLR’s investment criteria. Support and increasingly lead diligence workstreams, including internal analyses, third-party diligence coordination, data room review, diligence trackers, and summaries of key findings. Create clear and persuasive investment materials, including investment committee memos, market maps, company profi...