Partner, AI & Data at Maverix Private Equity — NeverHard

Who we are: Maverix Private Equity is a Toronto-based private equity firm led by an experienced and talented team with the background, network, and track record necessary to successfully execute a technology-enabled growth and disruption investment strategy. We closed our inaugural fund in 2022 and are raising Maverix Growth Equity Fund II. Maverix targets North American businesses with rapidly growing revenues and evidence of a clear, profitable business model. The average position size is US$50M for meaningful minority positions in our portfolio companies. Our mission is to build a globally recognized, industry-leading, Canadian-based Private Equity platform that invests in market-changing businesses and exploits the disruptive opportunities inherent to the accelerating pace of transformation. We aim to transform legacy businesses and industries to unlock substantial financial opportunity with appropriately mitigated levels of risk. Our founding principles include: We are builders, and Entrepreneurs are our partners; Opportunity is generated by innovation; Challenging the status quo with a bias for action; Respect, transparency and freedom from judgement; and Having fun! For further details on the Fund and Team visit maverixpe.com. About the Role Maverix is building its Data & AI capability as a core part of how we create value, both internally and across our portfolio. This is a new role, reporting to the Managing Partners designed for someone who can operate at the intersection of PE and applied AI: part internal builder, part external advisor, full thought partner to founders and leadership teams navigating an AI-first world. Think of this as the AI/Data equivalent of what our Growth function does today, embedded enough to understand the business, credible enough to challenge and guide, and practical enough to actually build things. What You'll Do Build internal playbooks and frameworks for evaluating AI readiness and AI risk in target companies Serve as a trusted advisor to our Portfolio Company founders and leadership teams on their data and AI strategy, in a value creation advisory function Help portfolio companies identify where AI and data create the highest-leverage opportunities: operations, customer, product, or GTM Connect Portfolio Companies to the right tools, talent, and frameworks, not prescribing solutions but helping leadership ask better questions and build better capabilities Spot patterns across the portfolio and bring relevant insights, tools, or introductions from one company to another Build and own our AI-assisted deal workflow, from earlier company tracking through to diligence and portfolio monitoring, using and extending our existing stack Develop tools and processes that help the investment team move faster: smarter data room review, faster market mapping, better signal detection on companies earlier in their trajectory Act as an analytical resource for the deal team, filling gaps and raising the floor on what the team can do with data in our diligence and sourcing activities. Who You Are You’ve built and shipped real AI products in production environments. You’re not a theorists or strategy deck authors. You’ve made decisions under uncertainty, scaled teams, and lived with the consequences. More specifically: You have direct experience building or deploying AI/data solutions at a company, not just advising on them You can talk to a CEO about business outcomes and to an engineering team about architecture, without losing credibility in either room You're comfortable in ambiguity and early-stage organizational contexts, you build the map while navigating You have genuine intellectual curiosity about where AI is going and a point of view worth hearing Toronto-based What We're Not Looking For This is not a "AI strategy" consulting role. We're not hiring someone to produce frameworks and decks. We're hiring someone who has built things, understands the craft, and can help others do the same.