Investment Banking Partner

🌍 Remote, USA 💹 Full-time 🕐 Posted Recently

Job Description

Location: U.S. & U.K. (New York / San Francisco / London preferred)
Type: Part-time / fractional / full-time (performance-based comp)

About Thunder
Thunder is a tech-enabled investment bank with a founder-first philosophy. We help growth-stage tech companies navigate capital strategy (equity, debt, and M&A transactions) by combining deep operating experience, proven relationships, and proprietary technology. Thunder gives partners the infrastructure, data, and execution resources to focus on what matters: advising founders and closing transformative transactions. Thunder focuses on the relationships with our founders and helps them achieve their ideal target outcomes.

The Role
We’re hiring experienced operators and dealmakers to join Thunder as a Partner. This flexible, performance-driven role is ideal for exited founders or senior investment bankers with 10+ years of experience and a proven track record of transactions. Partners will be hands-on advisors to founders — leading strategy, investor and buyer outreach, and managing deal execution with Thunder’s delivery teams.

Lead client relationships for later-stage tech companies (post-Series A, typically >$5M revenue).
Advise founders on capital strategy (equity, debt, M&A) and craft the path to their ideal outcomes.
Drive investor and strategic buyer outreach, leverage and grow your sector network.
Lead negotiations and manage the execution team (analysts/associates) to deliver investor materials, diligence support, and closing.
Contribute to client satisfaction and revenue generation through retainers and success fees.

10+ years building or advising tech companies (exited founder strongly preferred) or senior experience in IB/VC.
Direct transaction experience (multiple deals on either side, buy/sell, capital raises, M&A).
Deep sector expertise and an established, demonstrable network of investors/strategics in your vertical.
Founder-first mindset: empathetic, pragmatic, and solutions-oriented.
Comfortable with a flexible, performance-based compensation model.
FINRA registration helpful but not required.

100% performance-based: partners earn a share of Thunder’s revenue from retainers and success fees.
The average partner is earning $10K+/mo in retainers and 6 figures in performance pay
Option to purchase/earn equity in Thunder and become a formal, voting partner after a 1-year cliff.
Background checks, references, and NDAs required.

Stay in the game, not the grind. Focus on high-impact advising and deal leadership instead of hiring, payroll, fundraising for a new company — you own the strategy and client relationship; Thunder handles the execution work.
Flexible commitment. Work fractional, part-time, or full-time on your terms — “what you put in is what you get.” Build a book of advisory work that fits your lifestyle.
Real upside, no fundraising risk. Earn meaningful pay-for-performance through retainer + success-fee splits (detailed, transparent commission schedules and worked examples are provided). You get revenue upside from closed transactions — with no need to commit capital or manage a fund.
Low liability, high credibility. Work with an experienced team of ex-founders, bankers and operators, backed by a compliance and finance infrastructure that minimizes your operational risk while you advise.