Head of Capital Markets

Basic Capital

$150K — $250K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven experience in capital markets, specifically within banking, hedge funds, or fintech.
  • Demonstrated fundraising capabilities and relationship management with lenders.
  • Strong communication skills for managing high-stakes relationships.
  • Proficient in financial modeling and experienced with tools like PowerPoint and Excel.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain relationships with credit managers and institutional lenders.
  • Lead fundraising initiatives, collaborating closely with the CEO to engage investors.
  • Monitor capital market performance and leverage insights for strategic execution.
  • Identify market opportunities to scale credit offerings effectively.
  • Collaborate with internal teams to streamline capital market operations.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with a founding team from prestigious companies like Goldman Sachs and Uber.
  • Engagement in a mission-driven company focused on reducing wealth inequality.
  • Access to a lean, high-performance work environment located in SoHo, NYC.
  • Involvement in shaping the future of retirement solutions in the fintech space.
Full Job Description
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

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