About Basic Capital
Basic Capital is a fintech company disrupting America’s $1T retirement industry by building the mortgage for retirement, unlocking market ownership, and making wealth accessible to every American. Our mission is to create products, platforms, and a credit marketplace that power a fundamentally new retirement system.
Our founding team includes leaders from Goldman Sachs, Uber, Block, and Robinhood, and we’re backed by top investors such as Lux, BoxGroup, SVAngel, Inspired Capital, and Henry Kravis. Based in SoHo, NYC, we’re assembling a lean, high-performance team committed to reducing wealth inequality.
For more information, visit Basic Capital’s website.
About the Role
Basic Capital is building the future of retirement investing and the capital markets engine behind it has to be invented from scratch.
This is not a “run the process” role. This is a market creation role.
We’re looking for our in-house Lewis Ranieri — the architect of the modern mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market — to help us build the credit rails that will power a new kind of wealth system for everyday Americans.
You will
Build and maintain relationships with credit managers and institutional lenders
Develop deep relationships with:
asset managers
structured credit investors
banks / warehouse providers
capital partners
Lead fundraising initiatives alongside CEO including engaging investors
Monitor capital market performance and execute against insights observed
Identify market opportunities to scale credit offerings
Collaborate with teams to streamline capital market operations
Structure, negotiate, and execute credit facilities / securitizations / forward flows (as relevant)
Translate our product and underwriting into a story institutional capital can’t ignore
Work cross-functionally with product, finance, legal, and ops to scale origination safely and quickly
Create a repeatable machine: not one-off deals but a brand new market
Qualifications
Proven experience in capital markets, with a background in banking, hedge funds, or fintech including embedded lending
Demonstrated ability in fundraising and managing relationships with lenders
Excellence in communication skills with high-stakes relationships
Excellence in financial modeling and skilled in using tools like PowerPoint and Excel