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# Fractional Director of Investor Relations  (Advisor Network) at Arootah

- **Company:** Arootah
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** $200–$400/hr
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/arootah/3d229cf0-ba09-4c6c-845b-7d6b2a10aebf

## Job description

Opportunity Overview Arootah engages a curated network of senior operators to support clients across the alternative investment industry, including hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices. Advisors are deployed on project-based engagements when client needs match their expertise. Joining the network does not guarantee placement; it provides access to opportunities as they arise.

## Why Join the Arootah Network

Alt-industry-only engagements with hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices

## About Arootah

Arootah is a talent solutions firm purpose-built for the alternative investment industry. We advise and we execute, covering the full talent spectrum from entry to exit across five services: Talent Acquisition, Fractional Leadership, Talent Development, Retention & Compensation, and Transition.

Most talent firms solve one problem. Because we cover the full spectrum, we can help clients identify and solve the right one. We start with diagnosis, then deliver.

Our team has run alternative investment firms at the highest levels as COOs, CFOs, and CCOs. That operator experience, combined with 15+ years of alternatives-specific recruiting and a network of 700+ vetted advisors across 18 functional disciplines, is what makes the advice credible and the execution reliable. We also draw on a network of 600+ coaches, deploying those with specific experience guiding senior executives in the alternatives industry.

One industry. One talent partner. Entry to exit.

Learn more: https://arootah.com/

Who We’re Looking For Arootah is searching for experienced Directors or Heads of Investor Relations to consult our client base.  As a consultant, you will work with our Alternitive Asset Firm and Family Office clients to provide expert advice. Having previously served in a senior role as a Director or Head of Investor Relations, you have specific, hands-on experiencing strategically executing the firms entire Investor Relations process, including managing, and overseeing the onboarding of clients as well as proactively meeting the ongoing servicing needs of the clients and constituents for a leading Alternative Asset Firm or Family Office.

Core Areas of Expertise

- Provide advice and guidance to Arootah clients who seek help with their Investor Relations needs. This will involve consulting to some of the leading Alternative Asset Firm and Family Offices in the world and sharing your experience as an expert in Investor Relations in helping clients to:

- Develop realistic and effective monthly action plans.

- Identify internal and contextual roadblocks.

- Break apart goals into actionable steps.

- Devise a plan of action for each goal.

- Provide the client with resources associated with implementing their action plan.

- Implement policies, procedures, and control measures.

- Review, analyze and report on client tools and resources to ensure industry best practices.

- Evaluate each client’s advancement toward goal actualization through key performance indicators (KPIs) and scoring matrices.

- Maintain and share detailed and accurate records of consulting results (challenges, breakthroughs, etc.).

- All aspects of the day-to-day management and oversight of investor relations, including client onboarding, answering client questions, ongoing servicing of client and constituent needs and ensuring a positive investor experience.

- Deliver an accurate and consistent message to existing and potential investors.

- Assist in creating, editing, and maintaining all marketing documents, specifically pitch books, fund risk reports, monthly investor publications, and customized client materials & thought pieces.

- Proactively address all Request for Proposals (RFPs) and Due Diligence Questionnaires (DDQ) requests and complete/maintain all corresponding documentation.

- Review monthly performance reports, requiring a strong understanding of performance, exposure, and other data analyses.

- Work closely with internal groups at the firm including senior management, operations, risk management, legal, and compliance to ensure client and regulatory requirements are satisfied and to ensure accuracy of RFP/DDQ responses.

- Create, maintain, and enhance marketing materials for investor meetings, calls, conferences, and roadshows.

- Maintain and update distributable monthly attribution, risk, and AUM templates.

- Maintain external databases with the firm’s data and information.

- Maintain and enhance the firm’s database of informationto help build out, automate, and improve the firm’s data warehouse to more efficiently and effectively satisfy client requests.

- Populate and maintain internal client database and facilitate weekly and monthly performance update emails through the system.

- Ad hoc prospect and current client requests.

## What You Bring

- Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Marketing, Finance, or Business Administration, or a related field.

- MBA or advanced degree is a plus.

- Sales or financial industry designations (such as Series 7 or Series 63) are a plus.

- A minimum of seven (7) years of professional experience in a similar IR/Marketing role within a Hedge Fund, Alternative Investment Firm or Family Office.

- Experience working with sophisticated institutional clients, prospective clients and a proven ability to develop new opportunities.

- Instinct on sales and desire to establish new relationships.

- Knowledge of multi-asset sectors and investment types, including, but not limited to public equity (long/short), private equity, fixed income, and absolute return oriented multi-strategy.

- Demonstrated analytical and quantitative skills and superb written and verbal skills.

- Confident client presentation skills (in person and phone).

- Strong team player with an entrepreneurial predisposition and strong interpersonal skills necessary to interact with personnel across senior levels of the firm.

- Self-starter with strong project management and follow-through skills.

Important Note This opportunity is to join Arootah’s advisor network and is not tied to a specific active engagement. Advisors are engaged on an as-needed basis, based on client demand and fit.

## About Arootah

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Arootah is a peak-performance advisory firm at the intersection of finance, technology, and wellness, providing executive coaching, business consulting, and talent solutions to alternative investment firms and financial executives.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped/self-funded; no public funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA (remote-first operations)
- **Founded**: Year not publicly disclosed
- **Founders**: Rich Bello (Founder & CEO) — previously COO of Blue Ridge Capital, a $10B hedge fund he helped scale; earlier roles at Morgan Stanley and EY

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Alternative investments (hedge funds, private equity, family offices), executive coaching, talent acquisition/development, business consulting, wellness optimization
- **Target customers**: B2B — hedge funds, private equity firms, family offices, and their service providers; also individual C-suite executives and high-growth companies
- **Mission/purpose**: "Empower companies, executives, and individuals to maximize their full potential" by applying hedge-fund-proven strategies to raise standards, overcome challenges, and achieve results ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))

## Products & Services
- **Talent Solutions (Talent Acquisition)**: Institutional-grade, senior-level recruiting across investment and non-investment roles for alternative investment firms. Supports contingent, retained, and outsourced recruiting models and covers 18 core disciplines including operations, finance, compliance, investor relations, technology, and business development ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/))
- **Talent Development**: Executive and team coaching, leadership training, and performance effectiveness programs aimed at measurable improvements in decision-making, collaboration, and execution ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/))
- **Fractional Expertise / Consulting**: Senior experts placed within firms across 18 functional disciplines on a scoped-engagement basis — senior judgment without the cost of permanent hires ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/))
- **Professional Coaching**: One-on-one and team coaching for financial executives and their teams to achieve peak performance ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/about/))
- **Business Consulting**: Pragmatic strategies to stimulate growth, inspire peak performance, and strengthen accountability ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/about/))
- **Wellness Optimization**: A virtual suite of wellness resources plus a physical Arootah Wellness Headquarters in NYC featuring an organic restaurant, spa, apothecary, elixir bar, bookshop, and boutique ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))
- **App & Software Development**: Internal development of digital tools to support the wellness and coaching offerings ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding — not publicly available; notable scale signal: network of **700+ advisors and consultants** across functional areas ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/about/meet-the-team/))
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors disclosed. Leadership pedigree is the primary credibility signal — Founder Rich Bello scaled Blue Ridge Capital to $10B AUM; President & COO E. Kurt Kim built and operated a multi-strategy credit hedge fund complex and exited a fintech platform; Head of Talent Solutions Chris Lillis previously held leadership roles at Jackson Lucas, PJT Partners, Two Sigma, and UBS ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/about/meet-the-team/))
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring across multiple roles (COO — Alternative Investments, Director of Investment Operations, Quantitative Researcher, Tax Compliance Manager, Investment Analyst) posted on Lever ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/arootah/)); expansion of Talent Solutions practice into a full Talent Spectrum model (acquisition + development + fractional leadership); investment in a physical wellness headquarters in NYC; AI-assisted recruiting pipeline signals scaling operations ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/arootah/))

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hedge-fund-native playbook**: Strategies are distilled from the hedge fund industry and extrapolated to any client — a differentiated approach vs. generic consulting firms ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))
- **Fractional senior talent model**: Clients get seasoned expertise across 18 disciplines at engagement-level scope, without permanent-hire cost — a flexible alternative to full-time hires ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/))
- **Talent spectrum under one roof**: Recruiting, development, and fractional placement are integrated, aligning human capital with strategy end-to-end ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/))
- **Founder credibility**: Rich Bello's track record building a top-tier $10B hedge fund gives instant trust in alternative investment circles ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/about/meet-the-team/))
- **Differentiated wellness angle**: A physical wellness headquarters and virtual wellness resources create a unique finance-tech-wellness intersection unlikely to be replicated by pure-play consulting firms ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Talent Solutions practice**: Building out institutional-grade hiring, talent development, and fractional leadership offerings as the flagship growth engine ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/))
- **Expanding the advisory footprint**: Leveraging the 700+ advisor network to serve more hedge funds, private equity firms, family offices, and service providers ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/about/meet-the-team/))
- **Vertical integration of services**: Deepening the connection between talent acquisition, executive coaching, business consulting, and wellness optimization to create a full-spectrum client offering ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))
- **Building out the wellness product suite**: Developing the virtual wellness platform and growing the NYC physical wellness hub ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Headquartered in NYC but operates remotely with flexible WFH positions "without sacrificing constructive collaboration" ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))
- **Professional development**: Strong emphasis on goal setting, accountability, and results-driven formulas for both clients and employees; the firm actively supports and encourages professional growth ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))
- **In-house wellness perks**: Free fitness programming, educational content, tracking apps, and group fitness classes for team members ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))
- **Mission-driven environment**: The company seeks people who are "energetic, respectful, reliable, authentic, driven by progress, disciplined, and passionate" — a culture built around peak performance and accountability ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/careers/))
- **High-caliber network**: Opportunity to work alongside a team with deep alternative investment pedigree (Two Sigma, PJT Partners, UBS, Blue Ridge Capital, Morgan Stanley, EY) and alongside 700+ advisors ([arootah.com](https://arootah.com/about/meet-the-team/))
- **AI-enhanced hiring process**: Uses AI tools to support recruiting (resume review, verification signals), but final decisions are made by humans — a signal of an innovation-forward people team ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/arootah/))

## Sources
1. [arootah.com — Careers](https://arootah.com/careers/)
2. [arootah.com — Talent Solutions](https://arootah.com/)
3. [jobs.lever.co — Arootah](https://jobs.lever.co/arootah/)
4. [arootah.com — About](https://arootah.com/about/)
5. [arootah.com — Meet the Team](https://arootah.com/about/meet-the-team/)

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