About the Role
Yieldstreet is looking for an Originations Associate to join our Private Credit vertical. You will report to the Head of Private Credit and play an integral role in the growth of this vertical. You will be responsible for various aspects of origination and business management, including prospecting, new opportunity screening, and ad hoc tasks to improve team efficiencies. This role is critical in driving effective outcomes and reducing execution timelines.
The ideal candidate will have a passion for Yieldstreet’s mission of helping individual investors gain access to a variety of alternative investments. This is an opportunity to leverage your expertise to change the way wealth is created and help millions on their path to financial independence. The candidate should be comfortable working under strict deadlines and timelines, aligning with our mission to provide investors with a diversified portfolio of alternative investments.
Yieldstreet has originated over $6 billion in investments across multiple asset classes, including Asset-Backed Finance, Receivables and Trade Finance, Art Finance, Litigation Finance, and Real Estate. Investment structures include direct loans, private securitizations, whole loan transactions, and equity investments. Yieldstreet is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Greece, Brazil, Argentina, and Malta. This role requires you to work from our Manhattan office at least four days a week, with the option to work from home one day a week.
What You'll Do:
- Conceptualize and create presentations to drive deal origination activity.
- Prospect, set up, and participate in new investment screening meetings.
- Manage Salesforce database entries across the team, including logging new opportunities, detailing call notes, building and maintaining contact lists, and tracking key closing and funding dates.
- Follow up with partners on various requests and ensure that deal files are complete.
- Assist lead underwriters with initial due diligence of originators and borrowers, including basic analysis of company history, financials, transaction structures, and collateral quality.
- Conduct ad hoc investment research.
- Analyze origination trends to support strategic initiatives, grow the deal pipeline, and improve efficiency while reducing turnaround times.
What You’ll Need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or a related field.
- 1-2 years of experience as an investment banking analyst or 5+ years in a sales operations role.
- Strong multitasking ability, excellent organizational skills, and high attention to detail.
- Execution-oriented mindset with the ability to work under tight deadlines and a structured approach to scale and efficiency.
- Ability to work as part of a high-growth team within a venture-backed organization.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, with a strong emphasis on PowerPoint and Excel.
- Prior experience working in Salesforce.
Bonus Points For:
- Ability to assess risk exposure and articulate financial and risk analysis clearly in both verbal and written forms.
- Strong financial analysis skills, including constructing cash flow models and performing sensitivity analyses on key performance drivers.
- Direct experience in commercial lending or asset-backed finance.
- Experience utilizing AI and machine learning systems to increase efficiencies.
- CPA, MBA in Finance, or completion of a formal Bank Credit Training Program.
About Yieldstreet
Yieldstreet is the leading private market investment platform. We believe that private market alternatives should be a fundamental part of your portfolio. That’s why we’re unlocking access to make it easier than ever to get started. We partner with top-tier investment managers to provide investors with a wide range of opportunities across real estate, venture capital, private equity, art, short term notes and more. All of our offerings are curated and vetted by our team to help investors diversify away from the stock market with confidence.
Why Yieldstreet?
Join a team of diverse, smart, and friendly people from 8 different countries who speak a total of 17 different languages who are on a mission to make alternative investments a fundamental part of the modern portfolio. Our team is comprised of successful entrepreneurs with combined exits of over $1B. We get social with each other during happy hours, exercise classes and team off sites! We are a hybrid work company giving you the opportunity to connect with your peers in real time with the flexibility to work remotely a few days per week.
What’s in it for you:
Competitive compensation packages including equity
Health, dental & vision coverage with FSA/HSA options
Unlimited PTO
401k Match
Paid lunch once a week
Commuter benefit
Life insurance
Sabbatical
Summer Fridays
Compensation:
- HIRING SALARY RANGE: $100,000 - 120,000 (Actual salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.) Compensation package also includes generous, bonus, benefits and equity.
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What We Do
Yieldstreet is changing the way wealth is created, providing access to asset based investments historically unavailable to most investors. We believe our technology platform creates a unique experience for investors at every level and provides valuable diversification and strength to most portfolios.
Why Work With Us
We're creating something that has never existed before to change the world for the better, and we're doing it with a fun and diverse group of thinkers that have joined us from all walks of life.
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