Careers

Senior operators, close to the work.

We are looking for people with the experience and the appetite to build a new professional services organization: one committed to Alio's values and to its clients, and one that puts leading tools, reinvestment, career growth and equity awards behind the people doing the work.

Every person here has a seat at the table on the work itself. Current needs: senior operators in value capture and post-merger integration, and independent advisors for the firm's network.

Example roles: account executive · data and AI engineer · M&A and venture practitioners · operating partners and subject-matter experts.

Senior work from day one

You sit with the client and own the analysis from the start, rather than working up to it.

Own the engagement

Scope, model, roadmap and delivery under your name, with a partner alongside rather than above.

Tools and IP you help build

The firm's platforms, data feeds and diagnostic library are yours to use and extend.

Health, retirement and leave

Medical, dental and vision cover, a retirement plan and paid leave.

Chicago base, flexible working

Willis Tower, 44th Floor, as home base, with remote work as each engagement allows, and continuing education supported.

A life outside the work

The work is demanding and we will not pretend otherwise. It should still leave room for the rest of your life: the people you answer to outside the firm, and whatever else you are serious about. We plan engagements around that rather than treating it as something to be accommodated, and a career here is meant to be worth having for longer than a few intense years.

Open roles

Where you come in.

Indicative rather than exhaustive. If your experience sits near one of these, or across two of them, write to us anyway and describe the work you have led.

Engagement Manager

3 to 6 years experience · Value Capture & M&AFull-time · Chicago home base · Remote as engagements allow

You will lead engagement delivery and hold the relationships with senior client leaders, turning ambiguous questions into structure, and structure into results the client can see.

What you will do
  • Lead the day to day: cadence, workstreams, and the quality of everything that ships
  • Own working sessions with client executives. Find the root issue and drive to a decision
  • Turn ambiguity into hypothesis-led plans, and plans into outcomes that hold
  • Shape how the firm serves its clients. Your standards become the playbook
What you bring
  • 3 to 6 years in consulting, sponsor operations, corporate development or integration work
  • Client workstreams owned end to end, not observed
  • Clear writing and a calm presence in a client room
  • Exacting standards and an even temperament

Apply for this roleFixed + variable + equity · Competitive benefits

Director

10+ years experience · Value Capture & M&AFull-time · Chicago home base · Remote as engagements allow

You own the engagement and the relationship. Scope, the working model, the plan and the delivery sit with you, with a partner alongside rather than above.

What you will do
  • Frame the question with the client before any scope is agreed
  • Carry accountability for what the work lands, against the standard set at the outset
  • Run diligence, synergy validation, carve-out and integration, or the value capture arc, end to end
  • Bring the specialists and the advisor network in when the work needs them
What you bring
  • A record of taking a plan through to reported results, not to a deck
  • Deal experience on both sides, or value capture delivered into the P&L
  • Able to build a model and defend it in front of a CFO
  • Your client career highlights, in your note to us

Apply for this roleFixed + variable + equity · Competitive benefits

Data and AI Engineer

4+ years experience · PlatformFull-time · Chicago home base · Remote as engagements allow

Every engagement runs on our own platform: the standing data feeds, the diagnostic library and the integration engine. You will take it further, knowing client work rides on every release.

What you will do
  • Extend the platform into new use cases and new depth, from the models underneath to the surface the team works in
  • Build commercial data models for our own development and operations, and client-facing analysis when an engagement calls for it
  • Hold and raise the security standards the platform is built on: confidentiality by architecture, not by policy
  • Translate what the team needs in the field into capability, in small releases shipped fast
What you bring
  • 4+ years building and running production software across backend, data and cloud
  • LLM systems in production: orchestration, evaluations and retrieval, beyond calling an API
  • Experience drafting PRDs and BRDs, and building the harnesses and evals that keep a system honest
  • Judgment about what to build, and the restraint not to build the rest

Apply for this roleFixed + variable + equity · Competitive benefits

Account Executive

Origination · CommercialFull-time · Chicago home base · Remote as engagements allow

You open and hold relationships with sponsors, portfolio operators and corporates, and bring the firm the questions worth answering.

What you will do
  • Build and work a pipeline across private equity, family offices and the mid-market
  • Sit credibly in a first conversation with a CFO or an operating partner
  • Sell a defined scope with a stated outcome, not a retainer
  • Carry what you hear in the market back into how the firm positions the work
What you bring
  • A network you have built yourself and can bring with you
  • Comfort with a technical sale: you will be asked what the model actually does
  • Discipline with a pipeline and a forecast
  • Patience for a long, senior, referral-led cycle

Apply for this roleFixed + variable + equity · Competitive benefits

Every offer is a complete package: fixed and variable compensation, equity participation and competitive benefits, all discussed openly and early in the process.

We also keep standing relationships with operating partners and subject-matter experts, called into a specific question rather than seated on a panel. If that is you, write to us as well.

Apply

A paragraph beats a perfect resume.

No portal and no upload. Send us four things and we will read all of them. We reply to everyone.

  1. The roleName it, or say none of them fit and tell us what you would rather do.
  2. Your LinkedInOr a portfolio, or anything that shows the work. No resume upload, no portal.
  3. A paragraphWhy this role, why these problems, why now. Plain words, in your own voice.
  4. Proof of workSubmit a recap of your experience, select clients, or project work. We hold proof of work in high regard.
Write to careers@aliofoundry.com

Equal opportunity

Alio Foundry LLC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, marital or family status, citizenship status, arrest record, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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