SIG Partners: CEO-in-Residence
The Position
Residencies & Placements. The firm acquires a business and installs you as its owner-operator, with co-investment of your own required.
Cycle: Rolling, matched to acquisitions; vetting includes behavioral assessments and background and credit checks.
Applications are open.
At a Glance
- Location
- Dallas; each CEO relocates to where the acquired business operates.
- Pay
- Equity only
- Compensation
- Significant ownership in the company you lead; candidates invest personal capital alongside the founding partners.
- What You Do
- CEO from day one of the acquisition, with a 60-to-90-day handover from the outgoing owner, an Operating Partner beside you, and a three-person board behind you.
- What You Must Bring
- Personal capital invested alongside the founding partners. The firm states the requirement twice and publishes no amount.
- Recruits On
- It weighs operating experience: time running something, rather than a degree.
- Who Can Apply
- Experienced operators across operations, sales, or marketing.
The Company
SIG Partners is profiled as an acquirer, with the trades it buys in and the evidence behind each one: read the SIG Partners profile.
Interview Prep
These programs do not publish their interview scripts, so this is the shape a residencies & placements program hires on, what it is really weighing, and how to arrive ready.
The Typical Arc
- A rolling, relationship-driven introduction rather than a fixed cycle.
- A sourcing conversation: what you would buy, and how you would find it.
- A working session with the firm's small team.
- A match to a live acquisition or a committed-capital search.
What It Is Assessing
- Sourcing ability and a real point of view on where to hunt.
- Operator readiness for a specific kind of business.
- Whether you fit a small, hands-on team without a large structure around you.
How to Prepare
- Arrive with a sourcing thesis, not a blank slate. Buyer Profile Builder
- Show you can run a business, with evidence on one page. Buyer Profile Builder
- Understand the firm's committed-capital model before you talk terms. Investors
More on the Board
A salaried seat is a form of capital: the employed lane on Investors weighs these programs beside the funds, and the Path Economics Comparer prices it against searching on your own money.