VP of Investments

Job Title VP of Investments – FinTech Infrastructure & Strategic Corporate Development Job Details Company: slingshot. Workplace type: Remote Employee location: United States Job type: Full-time Job Description About Us Slingshot is a premier financial technology (FinTech) institution and pioneering developer engineering the world’s next generation of high-performance execution algorithms, distributed transaction routing software, and automated data infrastructure networks. Our platform processes billions of data points daily, empowering global users and enterprise software partners to search, route, and optimize alternative asset data pipelines with absolute precision and minimum latency. We are seeking an analytically rigorous, remote-first VP of Investments to direct our strategic corporate growth roadmap, command our ecosystem capital allocation frameworks, and drive asset-network portfolio expansion. Key Responsibilities Macro Investment Strategy: Define and execute Slingshot's multi-year investment thesis, ensuring capital deployment aligns perfectly with macro FinTech SaaS and data infrastructure benchmarks. Corporate Development (CorpDev): Oversee the end-to-end investment lifecycle, including advanced programmatic financial modeling, platform asset valuation, complex term-sheet negotiations, and legal deal-closing mechanics. Quantitative Due Diligence: Direct rigorous technical due diligence streams across data-engineering stacks, systemic risk profiles, and operational metrics of target tech enterprises or strategic partners. C-Suite & Board Collaboration: Partner with internal Product, Engineering, and Legal divisions to prioritize ecosystem growth opportunities, track portfolio health, and present data-informed insights to executive leadership. Global Governance Alignment: Coordinate with international corporate counsels to ensure all venture placements, ecosystem capital transfers, and network treasury investments comply with standard corporate accounting principles (GAAP) and international regulatory baselines. What We Are Looking For Pedigree: 10+ years of high-impact leadership within Technology Venture Capital (VC), Tech Corporate Development (CorpDev), High-Frequency Trading Systems, or Enterprise FinTech SaaS, with 3+ years serving at the VP, Senior Director, or Principal investor level. Infrastructure Literacy: Proven operational familiarity with distributed database architectures, low-latency API networks, liquidity routing protocols, and advanced automated financial systems. Financial Engineering Mastery: Elite capacity to construct dynamic predictive valuation models, asset risk metrics, and structural balance-sheet analysis within high-growth technology markets. Boardroom Execution: Outstanding track record of leading complex commercial transactions, managing multi-stakeholder relationships, and translating abstract technology parameters into polished corporate strategies. Education: Bachelor’s degree in Corporate Finance, Computer Science, Economics, or a related quantitative discipline. An advanced degree (MBA) or credentials (CFA) are highly preferred. What We Offer Top-tier premium executive base compensation, performance-driven corporate bonuses, and substantial long-term corporate equity/native platform asset incentives. Comprehensive, premium platinum-tier medical, dental, and vision insurance packages. A hyper-collaborative, remote-first team operating at the global cutting edge of transaction technology routing and high-performance financial software infrastructure. Show more Show less