Remote Business Broker M&A Associate

Were hiring a Business Broker / M&A Associate to sit in the middle of business sales owners who want out buyers who want in and turn confidential conversations into real tracked deals.

• Flexible Title: Can tailor to reflect your skills & experience.
• Flexible Time: Can do full-time part-time side-gig (off-hours) or fractional (contract).
• Flexible Commitment: Can do short-term long-term or intermittent.
• No license required. Brokers sell-side advisors buy-side searchers and relationship-driven dealmakers welcome a license or IB background is a plus not a requirement.

Why so flexible Were a FUNDED startup racing to launch end of Q3 2026. That gives us just 3 months to stack features while raising additional working capital. Feel free to jump in help us ship then bounce >> or stick around. A successful launch translates into lots of permanent jobs for those that want them. Were also interested in long-term side gig relationships if thats what youre intoin our experience a few expert hours often beat full-time learning-curve hours.

Were a credible funded remote-first startup backed by a growing team. Were pre-launch and moving fast building the kind of relationship-driven deal network that connects people who have something with people who want it.

The best business sales never hit BizBuySell as a blind listing. They start as a conversation: an owner whos ready a buyer with a thesis and someone in the middle who can keep it confidential and keep it moving. Thats the person were hiring.

This is the business / M&A counterpart to our real-estate off-market seat same skill (two-sided relationship-first) different deal. Youll source and work owners who want to sell stay close to buyers who are actively looking (searchers independent sponsors operators small PE) and make the introductions that turn into deals.

This is ideal for someone who already talks to business owners and buyers brokers M&A associates search-fund operators who also source or anyone who has sat in the middle of a main-street or lower-middle-market sale.

Youll answer: Whos actually for sale (even if its not listed) Whos a real buyer vs. a window shopper What does each side need to take a next step

Up to $160000 OTE (base plus uncapped commission) for full-time performers; cash commission and equity components to be negotiated. Given the flexible commitment model comp will be structured accordingly fractional hourly or performance-only arrangements welcome for the right relationships and deal flow.

• Youve reviewed how we source qualify and track business-sale opportunities today
• Youve gotten access to our CRM and mapped where owner and buyer relationships live
• Youve made your first round of outreach and follow-up to warm owners buyers and intermediaries
• Youve attended your first team standup and understand how a confidential conversation becomes a tracked deal
• The team knows who you are why youre here and how youll work together

• Work the sell side find and build trust with owners who may want to sell even if theyre not listed yet
• Work the buy side stay close to qualified buyers searchers and operators who actually close
• Sit in the middle keep deals confidential represent both sides real needs and move conversations forward
• Qualify hard real sellers vs. tire-kickers; real buyers vs. send me everything
• Run phone-first follow-up consistent discreet and persistent; this is how business deals happen
• Keep the book clean log owners buyers conversations and status so nothing and no one falls through the cracks

Must-haves:

• Experience as a business broker M&A associate/analyst sell-side advisor or anyone who has sat in the middle of buying/selling operating businesses
• Relationship-driven and discreet owners talk when they trust you; buyers close when you dont waste their time
• Comfortable in the middle of a deal you can keep both sides moving without oversharing
• Phone-comfortable youd rather call than email and youre good at it
• Organized and self-directed you keep your own book and follow-up tight without daily check-ins

Nice-to-have:

• An existing book: listings owner relationships or a buyer pool you already work
• Search-fund independent-sponsor or lower-middle-market buy-side experience (you know what a real buyer looks like)
• Familiarity with CRM / deal-tracking tools (and the discipline to actually use one)
• Comfortable in fast-moving ambiguous environments

• Not a real-estate-only seat this is operating businesses not property
• Not a BizBuySell poster listings can be a tool; the job is confidential relationships and getting deals done
• Not a solo brokerage youll work with a team and systems not build a brand-new shop from zero alone

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