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Director of Value Creation
Job Location:
Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
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Posted:
27 August 2026 (21 hours ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
24 November 2026
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Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
The Opportunity
Chisel Industries is a holding company based in San Francisco that partners with and acquires leading skilled trades businesses across many verticals including roofing HVAC plumbing electrical landscaping general contracting and pools. We pair strong local operators with institutional capital and ChiselOS our proprietary AI operating platform. Chiselinvests in these businesses for the long term give operators the capital back-office muscle and AI-native tools to grow and reinvest in the people behind the work. We need someone who can go into the field map how a business actually runs and drive the improvements that make it worth more.
Thats where theDirector of Value Creationcomes in. Youll own the value creation strategy and execution tracking across Chisels portfolio companies looking across every trade vertical assessing whats already in place at each acquired business and deciding where to optimize. Working directly with portfolio company owners operators and the Chisel team youll identify prioritize and monitor the initiatives that drive EBITDA growth margin expansion and M&A. This is a hands-on role: youll build and execute the value creation plan for each business track realized impact against an EBITDA bridge and own the KPI and reporting infrastructure that gives leadership visibility into initiative-level progress.
Chisel Industries is a holding company based in San Francisco that partners with and acquires leading skilled trades businesses across many verticals including roofing HVAC plumbing electrical landscaping general contracting and pools. We pair strong local operators with institutional capital and ChiselOS our proprietary AI operating platform. Chiselinvests in these businesses for the long term give operators the capital back-office muscle and AI-native tools to grow and reinvest in the people behind the work. We need someone who can go into the field map how a business actually runs and drive the improvements that make it worth more.
Thats where theDirector of Value Creationcomes in. Youll own the value creation strategy and execution tracking across Chisels portfolio companies looking across every trade vertical assessing whats already in place at each acquired business and deciding where to optimize. Working directly with portfolio company owners operators and the Chisel team youll identify prioritize and monitor the initiatives that drive EBITDA growth margin expansion and M&A. This is a hands-on role: youll build and execute the value creation plan for each business track realized impact against an EBITDA bridge and own the KPI and reporting infrastructure that gives leadership visibility into initiative-level progress.
Key Responsibilities
Value Creation Plan Development
- Build the value creation plan for each portfolio company during diligence or shortly after close (the 100-day plan) in direct partnership with portfolio company owners and operators.
- Identify and prioritize levers across commercial (pricing cross-sell new markets) operational (cost procurement labor productivity) and financial (working capital capex discipline) categories.
- Quantify the expected EBITDA impact of each lever and build a target baseline for each portfolio company.
Execution & Tracking
- Work hands-on with portfolio company leadership to execute against prioritized initiatives.
- Track realized value against the baseline and report progress regularly to firm leadership.
- Revisit and adjust the value creation plan as new information emerges or business priorities shift.
KPI & Reporting Infrastructure
- Own the KPI and reporting infrastructure that gives the fund visibility into initiative-level progress not just top-line financials.
- Leverage AI tools and automation to track and produce KPI data with minimal manual effort.
- Partner with the finance team so value creation KPIs tie cleanly into financial reporting and the budget baseline.
Exit Preparation
- Support exit preparation by quantifying and documenting the value created for the investment memo or CIM.
- Maintain a clear defensible record of initiative-level impact that can withstand buyer diligence at exit.
Cross-Portfolio Benchmarking
- Run benchmarking and best-practice sharing across portfolio companies on value creation levers and outcomes.
- Share whats working and what isnt across the portfolio to speed up value realization for newer acquisitions.
Qualifications
- 6 years of experience in private equity management consulting corporate development or an operating role inside a PE-backed company with direct exposure to value creation planning.
- Strong financial modeling skills; able to build and defend an EBITDA bridge and quantify the impact of individual initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience identifying and executing on growth margin and revenue improvement levers in a lower-middle-market or middle-market environment.
- Comfortable working directly with founder-operators and portfolio company leadership; able to earn credibility and drive execution not just hand off a plan.
- Experience using AI or automation tools to build and maintain KPI reporting and dashboards.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to translate initiative-level detail into a clear value creation narrative for firm leadership and eventually an exit process.
What Success Looks Like
- Every portfolio company has a clear quantified value creation plan and are tracking realized impact within 100 days of close.
- Initiative-level progress is tracked and visible to firm leadership on an ongoing basis not just reconstructed at exit.
- Portfolio companies show measurable EBITDA improvement against their value creation plan within the first year.
- At exit the value created by each initiative is clearly documented and defensible in the CIM and buyer diligence.
Required Experience:
Director
About Company
Chisel Industries partners with or acquires and scales real-estate services, pairing proven operations with AI-driven technology innovation. Ideal buyer for trades owners, brokers, and bankers seeking certainty to close.
