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Saturn Five · Denver, Colorado
This role is designed to provide a natural on-ramp to senior leadership roles within or outside our fast-growing, 31 count (and growing) portfolio of small businesses by providing an approximately 24-month employment tenure during which you’ll learn the Saturn Five Way, experience firsthand the joys and challenges of supporting small businesses, and gain invaluable hands on operating experience and operational finance reps. As an Operations Fellow, you’ll engage directly with our team of Operating Partners, executing key strategic and tactical projects and providing lift to the CEOs, GMs, and Presidents of a unique network of profitable small businesses, all while building your small-business leadership toolkit.
What We’re About
Saturn Five is a long-term-hold investment firm focused on buying and operating some of the best small businesses in America. We are, technically, a lower-middle-market private equity company, but we're a bit different. We buy and hold our investments for the long term, and we invest in companies that we're proud of, but most of the private equity market isn't interested in. If you love the impact of well-run businesses and want to run one yourself someday, we may have a seat waiting for you. We don’t define success simply by the profits of our businesses. We think we can’t really measure what we’ve accomplished unless we also count the ways we’ve made life better for our investors, our team, and our portfolio-company customers and employees, and the world. Our aim and admittedly imperfect attempt is to live out a redemptive [generative] alternative to private equity. You can learn more about Saturn Five in our 2026 Annual Letter.
What Makes This Role Different
Get front-row access to the operational processes and systems it takes for excellent small businesses to succeed,
Work alongside a 20-person team that genuinely loves working together to build good businesses for the long-term, focusing on sustainable growth rather than quick exits, and
Guide and assist portfolio companies to meet quarterly distribution targets to investors, all while helping employees flourish.
Core Responsibility: Supporting Saturn Five Operating Partners
Reviewing and improving portfolio company-level budgets and annual plans
Designing and modeling key-employee incentive compensation plans
Serving as a ‘running buddy’ to portfolio company leadership to address major sales, supplier, or operational issues
Tackle key projects or domain-specific initiatives to level-up or shore-up an operating business
Building and improving Saturn Five playbooks using your and our lived experience and tactical examples for common SMB challenges and opportunities
Typical Trainings and Learnings
Finance: Understand the specifics of a small business budget, 13-week cash projection, and monthly financial forecasting, through hands-on strategic planning processes
People: Run a mid-level-manager hiring process, serve as point-person on a current portfolio company HR compliance issue, design a key employee compensation plan, conduct 1:1 coaching/mentorship meetings
Sales: Build a ‘customer experience journey’ artifact and sales pipeline process for a project-based portfolio company, join a company leader in building a customer roster and cold-calling for a new product offering, conduct customer satisfaction follow-up calls
Ops: Learn and coach the Saturn Five Way of Weekly, Monthly, and Annual status updates, conduct a morning toolbox meeting, design a simple inventory count and management system.
Cash: Create a recommended quarterly distribution for a portfolio company based on cash needs and recent performance, build a CapEx plan with and without financing options for critical portfolio company equipment, help build a 13-week cash-flow forecast product
You're wicked smart and proactive
You’re kind, firm, and grounded
You work hard and are a great teammate
You willingly serve others
You have a good sense of humor and can roll with the unpredictable punches inherent to the world of small businesses … you take your work seriously, but not yourself
You prize excellence, and hold a high bar for the quality of your work
You’re comfortable with some ambiguity and stepping into messy situations, with a bias towards process improvement and systematizing healthy practices
You want your work to matter
You share our core values of Adventure, Joy, Trust, Excellence, and Love
What You Bring
Unquestionable integrity and trustworthiness in stewarding investors’ dollars
A true passion for small business and a commitment to leading one soon
Real-world, small unit / team leadership of front-line employees
Operational finance chops
A history of direct exposure to financial statements and their analysis
Comfort with high levels of ambiguity and day-to-day variance in your job focus
A four-year undergrad degree … business or finance focus beneficial, but we’re open to other backgrounds
What'd be Nice-to-Have
Management-team-level experience in a small-to-medium-sized company ($2M - $10M in EBITDA)
Domain expertise in a small-business-related cross-company functional area (SEO, hiring, inventory management, job-costing)
An MBA or equivalent professional degree
Betterment 401(k) with an up-to 4% match
Health and dental insurance
Self-directed PTO
Monthly coaching/counseling stipend
Monthly date night allowance for you and your spouse
Details
| Company | Saturn Five |
| Location | Denver, Colorado |
| Type | FULL TIME |
| Niche | Full-time |
| Salary | $1,50,000 – $1,50,000 / yr |