Careers at Kanbrick
Work that compounds.
Kanbrick is a long-term investment partnership founded by Tracy Britt Cool and Brian Humphrey, built to be the option they wished existed for their own families’ businesses. One with a decades-long horizon, an operating team that does the work, and partnerships built to be truly win/win.
WE DON’T JUST ADVISE, WE EXECUTE.
Our KBS team works shoulder-to-shoulder with the leaders of our partner companies, on strategy, talent, operations, and execution. We’re operators and business builders, not advisors at a distance.
Built for decades, not deal cycles.
Tracy and Brian built Kanbrick to be the long-term option they wished existed. We think in decades, not quarters, which means what you build here doesn’t get undone at the next sale.
A broader community of builders.
Alongside our partnerships, we bring together a broader group of CEOs and owners of family- and founder-led businesses to learn, share, and grow through the Kanbrick Community.
Open Positions
Where you’ll make an impact
We hire across four areas: our Investing team, the Kanbrick Business System (KBS), our Community team, and Kanbrick corporate roles. Partner company roles are direct hires into our partner businesses.
About Kanbrick team roles: We hire across four tracks: Investing, the Kanbrick Business System (KBS), Community, and Kanbrick corporate roles. KBS roles span Technology, Strategy & Operations, Talent, and Corporate Development.
KBS · Strategy & Operations
VP, Strategy & Operations
Most operating roles in PE ask you to advise. This one asks you to build. As KBS Lead at four to six of our partner companies, you partner closely with CEOs, drive hands-on value creation, and show up in the Kanbrick Community. The right person has operated at a senior level and creates change through influence, not authority.
📍 Nashville, TN or Charlotte, NC
Investing
Investing Associate
A generalist seat on a small, entrepreneurial investing team: sourcing and underwriting closely-held businesses, building financial models, diving into due diligence, and supporting our companies post-close. We’re looking for someone with a bias for action, low ego, and genuine curiosity about what makes businesses win.
📍 Charlotte, NC
KBS · Technology
Forward Deployed Engineer
You work across two surfaces: internally, building the AI tooling, skills ecosystem, and automation infrastructure that makes the Kanbrick team sharper; and in our partner companies, embedding with their teams to map high-value workflows, deploy agent-driven automation, and drive adoption. What you build in year one becomes the operating template across the entire Kanbrick family.
📍 Nashville, TN or Charlotte, NC
Finance
Finance Manager
Kanbrick’s first Finance Manager: a CPA who will own the firm’s full financial infrastructure across accounting, compliance, tax, investor relations, and audit. This is not a support function. You build the system, run it autonomously, and grow with the firm as it adds partner companies and complexity over the next decade.
📍 Charlotte, NC
Community
Director, Kanbrick Community
The Kanbrick Community has 3,000+ members and is growing. Your job is to find the next generation of values-aligned founders and CEOs and connect them to what Kanbrick offers: peer community, programming, and a long-term relationship with a team that genuinely wants to help them build. Ideal background: 6+ years in business development, corporate development, wealth management, or executive recruiting.
📍 Nashville, TN or Charlotte, NC
About partner company roles: These positions are direct hires into one of Kanbrick’s partner companies: founder- and family-owned businesses that Kanbrick partners with for the long term. Each company has its own leadership team, culture, and hiring process. Kanbrick’s people team supports the search; the role itself reports into the partner company.
AMG · Finance
Director, Finance – AMG
AMG is a value-added distributor of mission-critical fluid power products serving Aerospace, Medical, Automotive, Mining, and Agriculture markets. As one of the Midwest’s largest Parker Hannifin stocking distributors, we operate 8 locations across Michigan and Indiana with 240+ employees.
We are backed by Kanbrick, a long-term investment partner, and are growing aggressively — from approximately $125M toward $250M+ through organic expansion and strategic acquisitions.
📍 Portage, MI
JM Test · M&A
M&A Integration Manager – JM Test
JM Test Systems is one of the fastest-growing providers of calibration, inspection, and testing services in North America.
As we continue expanding through acquisitions and new site launches, we’re looking for an operations-minded builder who enjoys solving complex business problems, leading integrations after acquisitions, and helping growing companies scale. This role sits at the intersection of corporate development, operations, project leadership, and business transformation.
📍 Baton Rouge, LA
JM Test · Finance
Accounting Manager – JM Test
JM Test Systems is one of the fastest-growing providers of calibration, inspection, and testing services in North America.
As we continue expanding through acquisitions and new site launches, we’re looking for a detail-driven builder who enjoys solving complex accounting problems, strengthening controls through integrations, and helping the finance function scale alongside the company. This role sits at the intersection of accounting operations, process design, and team leadership, and reports directly to the Controller.
📍 Baton Rouge, LA
More Roles
Additional openings
We’re actively building leadership teams across our partner companies. Reach out if you’re an operator looking for your next chapter.
Beyond Open Roles
Build with us, even before the right role exists
Some of our most important relationships don’t start with a job posting. We invest in leaders at every stage: those already inside our partner companies, those who may join them one day, and CEOs building great businesses outside our portfolio.
For C-Suite & Senior Operating Leaders
CXO Program
A development platform for exceptional operators, whether you’re leading a Kanbrick partner company today or building toward that kind of role. We invest in this cohort because great operating leaders are worth knowing long before a role opens up.
- Cohort programming with peers across the Kanbrick portfolio and network
- Direct access to KBS tools, Kanbrick team expertise, and operating frameworks
- Structured development across strategy, people, and operational excellence
- Open to leaders inside our partner companies and strong external operators
For Finance Leaders, Now or in the Future
Finance Leadership Network
A peer network for CFOs, VPs of Finance, and senior finance operators who want to stay connected to Kanbrick and to each other. No search agenda. Just relationships, learning, and experience worth having.
- Early visibility to finance leadership roles across our partner companies and the broader Kanbrick Community
- Periodic touchpoints with Kanbrick’s team focused on content relevant to senior finance operators
- Peer connections with mid-market finance leaders facing the same challenges you are
- No pressure, no cost, no obligation
Are you a CEO or owner building a founder-led business? Our Build with Kanbrick program may be the right fit: a free, cohort-based program for CEOs of family- and founder-owned businesses looking
to scale.
What We Offer
What working here actually means
We hire for capability, character, and culture. Our values are simple.
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A team that takes the work seriously
We’re collaborative, high-performing, and low-ego. The standard is high because the stakes are real, but we get there together, not through internal competition.
02
Proximity to decisions that matter
Kanbrick is a small partnership. There’s no bureaucratic distance between you and the work. You’ll have exposure to leadership, to CEOs, and to the business challenges that define whether companies succeed.
03
Room to grow and to build
We’re investing in long-term capabilities, not just filling seats. The right people here have the space to shape their role, build something lasting, and grow into broader ownership over time.
04
Competitive pay and real benefits
We pay competitively and build comp packages that reflect the scope of the work. Details vary by role; reach out and we’ll have a straight conversation.
Ready to do work that lasts?
We’re building a world-class team. If Kanbrick sounds like the right place, we’d
love to connect.