Business Development Analyst, Investment Banking (Tech M&A) (Copy) in Scottsdale, Arizona at Kaizen Equity Partners

Kaizen Equity Partners is a premier M&A investment bank advising clients across a wide range of sectors and countries. We close over $1B in transactions every year with a 90%+ success rate — and now we are rebuilding how an investment bank works from the inside out.

Your work will show up in live transactions and in dollars earned and saved — not in demos or pilots.

This is a forward-deployed role: you will sit with deal teams, not in a back office. As an AI Operations Associate, you will help drive a top M&A bank's rapid shift from traditional, hands-on operations to agentic ones, with always-on AI agents running the firm's core processes. You will shape our technology stack — the models and tools our agents use, and the integrations and controls that make them safe to run on live deals.

You will shadow teams across the firm to learn how the work really gets done, pinpoint the problems worth solving, and build the solutions. You will decide what can be automated away and where the firm should invest more of its people's time. Central to the job is a single judgment call, made over and over: what is intelligence an agent can carry, and what is judgment a banker must own? As opportunities arise, you will also bring the same rigor to some of our portfolio companies' biggest challenges.

Because you will handle sensitive and confidential client and transaction information, discretion and care are non-negotiable parts of the job.

If you are an analytical early-career professional who wants to be at the front of applied AI, this role gives you real impact now and a clear path to seasoned AI product expertise at the intersection of financial services and technology.