Build the team that gives every great UK business a second act.

Mission

Build the UK's most trusted pipeline of retiring-founder businesses (£500k–£15m turnover) so every cohort of operators has 5+ vetted opportunities ready to walk into.

What you'll own

• Own outbound sourcing across accountants, brokers, trade bodies and Companies House signals
• Build relationships with regional Chambers of Commerce, FSB chapters and IFAs
• Lead first-call qualification with founders considering succession
• Hit a target of 12 qualified opportunities into pipeline per month
• Own the CRM, sourcing dashboards and weekly pipeline review

Must have

• 5+ years in M&A, business brokerage, search-fund sourcing or SME lending
• Demonstrable track record sourcing UK SME deals £500k–£10m
• Empathy for founders — this is succession, not asset stripping
• Right to work in the UK

Nice to have

• Existing network of UK accountants and IFAs
• Experience with proprietary deal sourcing tools (Sourcescrub, Grata, etc.)

Mission

Run forensic financial and operational diligence on every business in the LegacyRelay pipeline so operators inherit reality, not a sales deck.

What you'll own

• Build standardised Quality of Earnings models for every deal
• Pull and reconcile Companies House filings, VAT returns and management accounts
• Produce a 10-page diligence brief per business covering customer concentration, working capital, key-person risk and sustainable owner earnings
• Flag deal-breakers early — protect both founders and operators

Must have

• ACA / ACCA / CFA Level 2+, or 3+ years in transaction services / SME audit
• Fluent in UK GAAP, FRS 102, dividend vs salary owner remuneration
• Excel modelling that doesn't break when assumptions change

Nice to have

• Experience in a Big 4 TAS or boutique M&A team
• Familiarity with BADR (Business Asset Disposal Relief) tax mechanics

Mission

Make sure every operator we place succeeds in their first 24 months — the single most important metric for the entire business.

What you'll own

• Design and run the 90-day onboarding from completion through founder handover
• Build the operator peer network — quarterly summits, monthly mastermind calls
• Match operators to mentors from our advisory bench
• Own the early-warning system: if revenue, margin or staff retention slips, we know in week 2, not month 6

Must have

• Operating experience: you have run a £1m+ revenue P&L
• Coaching credibility — you have managed managers
• High EQ; this role lives in difficult conversations

Nice to have

• Have completed an SME acquisition yourself
• Background in EOS / Scaling Up / Rockefeller Habits operating systems

Mission

Run the 12-week Operator Course end-to-end — curriculum, faculty, cohort experience and sign-off — so graduates are deal-ready, not just educated.

What you'll own

• Own the course P&L, calendar and three cohorts per year (24 seats each)
• Recruit and manage the faculty bench (M&A lawyers, lenders, ex-founders)
• Approve each applicant alongside the admin team; maintain the bar
• Iterate the curriculum every cohort based on graduate outcomes

Must have

• 5+ years running a high-stakes professional education product (e.g. accelerator, exec ed, leadership programme)
• Strong project management — you ship a 12-week experience without dropping balls
• Deep comfort with UK SME landscape: TUPE, BADR, Companies House, lender criteria

Nice to have

• Built or scaled a programme like On Deck, Entrepreneur First, or a search-fund accelerator

Mission

Build the funding stack so every approved operator has access to senior debt, vendor finance and equity co-invest within 30 days of accepting a deal.

What you'll own

• Maintain hot relationships with Allica, Shawbrook, ThinCats, BBB-backed funds and SME-focused PE
• Negotiate framework terms so operators get pre-vetted indicative offers
• Structure vendor loan notes and earn-outs alongside the legal team
• Run our equity co-invest LP relationships

Must have

• 8+ years in SME debt origination, sponsor coverage or search-fund equity
• Existing book of UK lender relationships
• Comfortable structuring £1m–£10m senior + mezz + vendor finance stacks

Nice to have

• FCA-regulated experience

Mission

Make every LegacyRelay transaction watertight — from heads of terms to completion to TUPE handover — without becoming the bottleneck.

What you'll own

• Own the standardised SPA, disclosure letter and warranty templates
• Run TUPE process design across every deal
• Manage the panel of external M&A counsel for complex matters
• Compliance: AML/KYC on every founder and operator, GDPR, FCA boundary

Must have

• Qualified UK solicitor with 6+ years post-qualification in private M&A
• Hands-on with share purchases, asset purchases and TUPE
• Pragmatic — closes deals, doesn't paper-cut them to death

Nice to have

• Top-tier UK firm training (MC / SC / US firm London office)

Mission

Fill every cohort and every deal pipeline with the right people — operators on one side, retiring founders on the other.

What you'll own

• Own paid, organic and partnerships across both audiences
• Build a content engine: founder stories, deal post-mortems, operator journeys
• Run conversion across the funnel: site → application → approval → enrolment
• Hit cohort fill-rate: 24/24 seats, 30+ days before start

Must have

• 5+ years growth lead at a content-led B2B brand or marketplace
• You can write — sample portfolio required
• Comfortable with both LinkedIn-led ABM and broad organic SEO

Nice to have

• Two-sided marketplace experience (e.g. property, recruitment, M&A)

Mission

Build the operator + founder platform: the application portal, deal dashboard, diligence workspace and the post-completion operator OS.

What you'll own

• Own the full TanStack Start + Supabase stack end-to-end
• Ship the deal dashboard, secure document room and operator post-completion OS
• Partner with Operator Success and Capital teams to remove their highest-friction workflows

Must have

• 5+ years shipping production React / TypeScript apps
• Solid Postgres, RLS and auth experience
• Bias to ship — you cut scope before deadlines slip

Nice to have

• Prior 0→1 startup experience

Mission

Make the LegacyRelay alumni network the most valuable peer group in UK SME ownership.

What you'll own

• Run the private alumni community (Slack/Circle), monthly virtual events and the annual in-person Operator Summit
• Surface deal opportunities, hire requests and capital intros between members
• Capture every operator's monthly metrics in a confidential benchmarking dashboard

Must have

• 3+ years running a high-touch professional community (200–2,000 members)
• Excellent written communication; you run a community by writing

Nice to have

• Background in SME or founder-focused community building

Mission

Make LegacyRelay the most-cited voice on UK SME succession — so retiring founders and ambitious operators both land on us first.

What you'll own

• Publish 2 long-form pieces and 4 short pieces per week across blog, LinkedIn and newsletter
• Produce the LegacyRelay podcast — interviews with founders, operators and capital partners
• Own narrative consistency from website to deal teaser to investor letter

Must have

• Portfolio of long-form business writing (3+ years)
• Comfortable interviewing founders and lenders on the record

Nice to have

• Audio/video editing fluency