Senior M&A Reporter US - Intelligence Origination

Who are we?

Gain is the Private Markets Super App, a connected global platform transforming how leading investors, advisors, and corporates source, evaluate, and execute deals. By combining investment-grade intelligence, AI-powered workflows, and proprietary data in one unified platform, Gain enables top deal teams to move faster, reduce risk, and build conviction with confidence.

Gain is trusted across more than $1 trillion of private capital, used by 100% of MBB and Big Four firms, and by 80% of the world’s top 20 M&A advisory houses.

Recognized for fast innovation and impact, Gain has been named both US and EU Data Provider of the Year by PE Wire, awarded Global Financial Market Review’s Best Use of AI in Finance, and ranked in Sifted’s Top 100 Fastest-Growing Companies, the Forbes 1000, and the Deloitte Technology Fast 50. Gain operates globally with offices in New York, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Warsaw, and Bangalore.

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What will you do?

We are expanding our Intelligence Origination team into the US. This team is responsible for sourcing proprietary, off-record insights on live private equity related transactions, with a focus on collecting structured data points rather than writing news stories. You’ll play a pivotal role in building our real-time, data-first coverage of US M&A transactions. As a Senior Intelligence Originator, you will help to build a proprietary, real-time dataset on US M&A transactions.

This is not a traditional reporting role. You won’t be writing news stories or chasing headlines. Instead, your mission is to cultivate a trusted network of off-record sources - including investment bankers, private equity sponsors, advisors, consultants, lenders, and lawyers - and extract proprietary intelligence on live deals.

The insights you gather will be structured into clean, machine-readable datapoints that power our platform. These include financials, process stage, valuation ranges, suitor lists, lender involvement, deal motivation, and more - forming the backbone of what our clients use to originate and analyse transactions.

You’ll be speaking with market participants in a background-only capacity, surfacing intelligence that rarely appears in the public domain. Working closely with our analyst and research teams, you’ll help convert these raw insights into structured, scalable data - fuelling client workflows and supporting better dealmaking decisions.

Key responsibilities:

• Build and maintain a network of sources - including bankers, sponsors, lenders, lawyers, consultants, and other advisors

• Conduct daily off-record, high-trust conversations to surface non-public insights on deal activity (e.g. bidders, valuation ranges, advisors, incumbent lenders, deal rationale, timeline)

• Identify and monitor live and upcoming M&A transactions

• Ensure high-quality sourcing of proprietary datapoints that feed directly into the Gain platform - not written articles

• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of junior reporters, providing guidance on sourcing, market coverage, and best practices for investigative reporting and deal tracking

• Collaborate closely with our in-house analysts and research teams to ensure data completeness, consistency and structured format

• Support the expansion of our real-time transaction pipeline and contribute to internal market intelligence sharing

Who are you?

• Strong knowledge of M&A, private equity or private credit markets

• Editorial/managerial experience, including training, mentoring, and supervising junior reporters

• Experience sourcing market intelligence - in journalism, research, origination, investor relations or a related field

• Skilled at cultivating senior-level sources and handling off-record, background-only conversations

• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, both in-person and remotely

• High attention to detail and ability to work quickly without sacrificing accuracy

• Comfortable operating independently as part of a fast-moving, entrepreneurial team

What do we offer?

• Competitive base salary and an annual performance-based bonus

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

• 401(k) plan with pension contribution

• Hybrid work model — 3 days per week in our Manhattan office

• 20 days paid time off and public holidays

• Annual learning & development budget

• International offsites and local team events