Director, Private Capital Solutions

Clarity is redefining how private companies and their shareholders access liquidity. Through its institutional-grade platform, Clarity brings together buyers, sellers, and issuers to facilitate secondary transactions in venture-backed, pre-IPO companies, introducing efficiency, transparency, and standardization to an otherwise opaque asset class.

Recognized as one of Canada's fastest-growing companies and backed by leading U.S. investors, Clarity is profitable, well-capitalized, and building a high-performance team to meet growing demand and pursue new market opportunities.

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As an Associate Director/Director, Private Capital Solutions at Clarity, you will play a pivotal role in demonstrating the benefits of the Clarity platform’s all-in-one liquidity solution to private issuers and their shareholders. This is a high-visibility role where you'll directly engage with founders, CFOs, and legal teams of the most highly valued VC-backed private companies across the US, to bring them investor demand and a best-in-class transaction management technology. Your mission will be to position Clarity as the gold standard in liquidity solutions for private companies, enabling them to raise capital and streamline secondary transactions in an increasingly complex private markets landscape.

In this role, your responsibilities would include:

• Becoming an expert on the secondary market for pre-IPO securities, including company-sponsored liquidity events such as tender offers; understanding market dynamics, key participants, and the role of Clarity.

• Developing, growing, and owning strategic relationships with a set of private companies and/or law firms by articulating the benefits of Clarity’s capital markets and transaction administration technology capabilities.

• Prospecting and engaging private companies and law firms through strategic calling, targeted marketing campaigns, and personalized outreach efforts to drive liquidity in their shares and platform adoption.

• Solidifying Clarity’s position as best-in-class partner to private companies for liquidity in their shares and transaction administration technology.

• Seamlessly delivering the value of Clarity to issuers by collaborating with our Capital Markets, Execution Services, and Funds teams.

• Mentoring and developing junior team members, fostering a high-performance and collaborative environment within the Private Capital Solutions team.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be an ambitious, high-energy person with a strong sense of urgency, exceptional work ethic, insatiable thirst for knowledge and challenge, and outstanding organizational skills.

• Be passionate about building and maintaining strategic client relationships.

• Have a “can-do” attitude and demonstrated ability to take on new challenges and map uncharted territory.

• Have experience owning a set of accounts with responsibility for driving service and product adoption within those accounts.

• Have a deep understanding of private capital markets and the ecosystem of players.

• Have an existing network of private company, law firm, and VC contacts in senior, influential roles.

• Have exceptional sales acumen, negotiation skills and a results-driven mentality.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to navigate cross-functional dynamics quickly and efficiently to drive results.

• Have a relevant educational background, such as a business, finance, or economics degree, or exceptional academic performance in a liberal arts or science program.

• Possess a FINRA Series 7 and/or Series 63 or ability to complete the registrations shortly after hiring.

Benefits & Perks:

• Opportunity to participate in ownership of a rapidly growing company through our employee stock option plan.

• Comprehensive 100% employer-paid health & dental premiums and a Health/Personal Spending Account for Canadian employees. (An employer-subsidized benefits program is available for US-based team members).

• If you are based in Vancouver, enjoy a dedicated desk in our Vancouver, BC HQ, in the heart of downtown, with a fridge stocked with healthy snacks and drinks, an onsite gym, and a gorgeous rooftop amenity.

• Vancouver based employees enjoy a $20-per-day commuter benefit for every day you work in our downtown HQ.

• An engaging social calendar, including bi-weekly catered lunches, bi-weekly “Friday bar,” team workouts, annual summer party, and holiday party, two “onsite” all-team retreats each year, semi-annual team-building events, and Clarity Women’s Network events.

• Significant opportunities for growth into team leadership and management roles.

• Entrepreneurial culture and a small and dynamic team.

• Sponsorship, immigration, and relocation for exceptional candidates.

Clarity is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed.

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