Long-time SkyWater client looking to add a new leader to the business — This firm is a boutique M&A/PE Advisory firm that has experienced significant growth in the last 4 years — they are actively building out new services lines and offerings. Unmatched culture, meritocratic promotion, and entrepreneurial environment.
We are looking for a senior manager for what the firm calls their “FinOps” group. This person will be a high-level executor for office of the CFO/Controller projects for middle market PE-backed organizations.
The ideal candidate is someone who has private equity controllership/CFO/Finance experience, skilled in value creation and portco optimization/growth.
7-15 years of experience is ideal, CPA preferred. Prior management consulting experience is a plus.
Come join a quickly expanding organization set to IPO in the next few years. We are looking for a senior accountant to join the corporate controllership team focused on operational accounting, FP&A, optimizing new data analytics tools, and overall process improvement and value creation through the accounting function.
This reports directly to someone we placed in the organization 1 year ago — they have already been promoted and are continuing to build their team. If you want to be CFO or Controller one day this is the perfect role for you.
Ideal candidates have foundations in public accounting (audit) and their CPA certification.
We are seeking a Director of Growth for a social-first agency that’s building something genuinely different in the market. This is a senior, hands-on role for someone who loves building growth from the ground up and wants real ownership over how an agency shows up, attracts clients, and scales.
This role leads all agency marketing and growth strategy in partnership with the agency’s Chief Growth Officer – from positioning and demand generation to actively identifying, prospecting, and converting net-new clients. There’s no inherited playbook here. You’ll help create it.
What You’ll Do
Partner with the CGO to lead the agency’s growth strategy end to end
Lead all agency marketing, positioning, and go-to-market efforts
Identify, prospect, and pursue net-new clients (this role is not passive)
Develop repeatable growth systems, pipelines, and partnerships
Work closely with agency leadership to align growth goals with business strategy
Track performance, learn fast, and continuously iterate
Who This Is For
This role is ideal for someone with builder energy – someone who thrives in fast-paced, evolving environments and sees ambiguity as opportunity.
The ideal candidate:
Has advertising agency experience or has driven proven growth in an agency-adjacent environment (consulting, creative studio, startup, platform, etc.)
Is results-driven and comfortable being accountable to growth outcomes
Enjoys prospecting, relationship-building, and opening doors
Understands how modern agencies actually win business today
Is a collaborative team player who leads with momentum, not ego
Believes social media is a growth engine, not just a channel
The agency is located in Minneapolis, MN and offers a hybrid work environment. This role requires some travel. Compensation will be base plus commission, with the exact structure determined by the candidate’s experience and potential.
I’m excited to be exclusively working on a Controller search that will really resonate with the operational accounting crowd.
This role is for someone who thrives in the day-to-day of accounting and genuinely enjoys making things run better. Clean closes, solid processes, fewer surprises, and a team that gets stronger over time.
The company is PE-backed and has already completed a Sage Intacct implementation. The focus now is execution, consistency, and operational excellence. The accounting itself is straightforward, but the impact during this phase of transformation is immediate and meaningful.
The role is tied to the south metro, but candidates anywhere in the Twin Cities are fair game. In-office needs are heavier at the beginning and ease up once things are running smoothly, typically landing at one to two days per week, at most.
If you’re interested in hearing more, please reach out! CRabon@skywatersearch.com | 952.767.9025
SkyWater Search is partnering with a national bankruptcy boutique law firm to add a Senior Bankruptcy Trust Attorney to its busy practice. This is a great opportunity to work with top bankruptcy professionals on some of the nation’s largest Chapter 11s.
An ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in bankruptcy post-confirmation trusts. Must be passionate about a career in bankruptcy. This firm is looking for an attorney they can invest in long term. There is ample opportunity for advancement and growth.
The culture at the firm is great, with very little turnover. It is big on work life balance and doesn’t have a billables expectation. The position is offered as remote for candidates with quality trust experience.
If you’re interested in learning more, please apply or reach out to Kelsey Quarberg directly (kquarberg@skywatersearch.com).
We are partnering with a well-established, privately held commercial insurance brokerage to add an experienced Commercial Lines Producer. This is an evergreen growth role focused on hiring proven producers who own their book of business and want long-term upside, autonomy, and a true ownership path.
This opportunity is best suited for producers who are still actively selling and looking to grow their book, not individuals seeking a place to park existing business.
This is a commission-based role with competitive splits 45% new business 35% renewals Transition compensation available based on book size and roll Transition compensation is not a draw and not clawed back Additional incentives may apply based on production and referrals
SkyWater Search Partners is working with a highly acclaimed sexual abuse survivor’s firm with offices in Minnesota, New York, and Los Angeles. The firm has a national practice dedicated to sexual abuse survivor representation, with emphasis on child victims. The firm is looking to add an experienced litigator to its Los Angeles office.
An ideal candidate has 3-5 years of experience in litigation, managing cases from intake through settlement or jury trial. Must have experience taking and defending depositions, drafting complaints and discovery requests, managing discovery, and arguing dispositive and non-dispositive motions. Ideally, candidates would come from complex personal injury, liability, medical malpractice, or sexual abuse survivor practices.
The firm is looking for an associate they can invest in long term. The role is hybrid, with 3 days per week in office once settled in. A successful candidate is dedicated to victim representation in a collaborative, team-centric environment. Base compensation range is $150-200k, plus bonus. Benefits are top-notch.
If you’re interested in learning more, please apply or reach out to Kelsey Quarberg directly at kquarberg@skywatersearch.com.
My longtime PE Backed client in the financial services space is hiring for a talented Senior Database Developer (growth position) to help own and evolve the database layer of a large, multi-tenant SaaS platform. This is not a DBA or analytics role, it’s a senior engineering position embedded within product engineering.
Why this role:
* First engineer focused on database stewardship within product engineering organization * High impact, broad visibility, and real ownership * Fully remote, flexible schedule, strong work-life balance
If you’re a senior engineer who loves databases and wants to shape how a platform scales this role should be to your liking.
The Senior Project Manager – Post-Acquisition Integration will lead the operational integration of newly acquired manufacturing businesses. This highly visible role owns cross-functional planning, alignment, and execution from Day 1 through stabilization, ensuring processes, systems, and teams are successfully incorporated into the broader organization.
We are partnering exclusively with our multi-billion dollar, publicly-traded fintech client to find their next Global Billing Senior Manager. This role is open due to a retirement and there will be a knowledge transfer process. We have placed 10 people on the accounting team in the last 2 years so we know them well.
We are looking for candidates with 10+ years of billing experience in a global shared services organization.
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