OperatingPartner

Who We Are Emergence is a thematic holding company backed by the Pritzker Organization focused exclusively on acquiring and scaling category-defining software businesses. We invest in focused portfolios, specialized operating groups with deep domain expertise and proven playbooks. Emergence combines operational rigor with a growth equity mindset, driving sustainable ARR growth, profitability improvements, and industry-leading customer outcomes. The Mission Embed at newly acquired companies to translate strategy into operating discipline and unlock value creation velocity. What You'll Do - Design and run the weekly operating cadence with KPIs, business reviews, and accountability loops from day one. - Align portfolio company leadership teams to the same scorecard and targets the deal team modeled at close. - Partner with the CEO and operating partner on the value creation plan, then own highest-impact execution workstreams. - Grab cross-functional projects that fall between silos (go-to-market refinement, organizational restructuring, integration work) and run them to completion. - Run the operating conversations, offsites, and diagnostic exercises the CEO needs but lacks time to organize. - Move across portfolio companies as post-close needs shift, rotating between deep operational embedding and strategic board-level support. What We're Looking For Must-haves - 7+ years hands-on operating role running a P&L or owning meaningful operational scope. - Early foundation in banking or management consulting, then transition into software or PE-backed operating role. - Real commercial exposure: you have personally sold, owned a revenue line, or driven a sales process redesign. - Ability to hold a P&L conversation without notes and ship the 80% version of an operating artifact. - Named a situation where things broke at work, explained your response, and articulated how it changed your approach. - Comfortable moving between strategy-level CEO conversations and tactical execut