Ara Partners is a global private equity and infrastructure investment firm focused on industrial decarbonization. Founded in 2017, Ara Partners seeks to build and scale companies with significant decarbonization impact across the industrial and manufacturing, chemicals and materials, energy efficiency and green fuels, and food and agriculture sectors. The company operates from offices in Houston, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Dublin. As of September 30, 2025, Ara Partners managed assets of approximately $6.6 billion. For more information about Ara Partners, please visit  www.arapartners.com.

About Ara Energy

Ara Energy is an energy investment platform focused on biofuels, power generation, and fuel logistics and distribution and was founded in 2024 as a partnership between Ara Partners and the Haslam family office (“HF Capital”). The Haslam family are a long-term energy investors and the former majority owners of Pilot Travel Centers (“Pilot”). After the sale of Pilot to Berkshire Hathaway in 2023, HF Capital helped establish this new energy investment platform.

Ara Energy is led by the former CEO of Pilot, Shameek Konar, and key members of his leadership team. The team has extensive experience investing in and creating value in various energy commodity sectors and is focused on acquiring attractively priced energy assets, optimizing these investments, and pursuing decarbonization when the economics support these efforts. Ara Energy has already invested approximately $900 million since its inception. Ara Energy owns ~2,200MW of thermal power generation plants, two ethanol plants with 260 million gallons of annual capacity, and a stake in JET which operates ~1,000 retail fuel stations in Germany and Austria.

About the Role

The Associate will be responsible for providing support to senior team members in evaluating, executing, and managing investments. Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Financial analysis and modelling for potential and current investments
• Participation in all aspects of due diligence for potential investments
• Development of presentation materials for Investment Committee and other uses
• Interaction with the managers and teams at Ara Energy’s portfolio companies
• Quarterly reporting including investment write-ups and valuations
• Succinct communication of ideas and feedback in both written and verbal form 

What We Are Looking For

• 2+ years of relevant work experience involving quantitative financial analysis and modelling and experience working in energy and commodity sectors
• A self-starter with a strong work ethic, who can interact collaboratively in a team environment but operate independently as required
• Track record of academic success
• Ability to think strategically and analytically at a detailed level, interpreting information and data and providing relevant conclusions/recommendations
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to develop and maintain effective business relationships
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and through written materials
• Intellectually curiosity with a commitment to continuous learning

Compensation

• Competitive among comparable private equity Associate opportunities and commensurate with experience.

Benefits

• Fully-paid medical, dental, and vision plans
• Extensive paid parental leave program
• Generous 401(k) matching program
• Competitive paid time off program
• Paid volunteer time

Ara Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Founded in 2017, Ara Partners seeks to build and scale companies with significant decarbonization impact, specializing in buyout, process technology rollout and infrastructure investments. Ara targets businesses in hard-to-abate sectors across North America and Europe including industrial and manufacturing, chemicals and materials, energy efficiency and green fuels, and food and agriculture. Ara Energy acquires, optimizes and economically decarbonizes essential conventional energy assets: thermal power generation, biofuels production, and fuel delivery and distribution. It buys operating, cash-generating assets and improves their performance, reliability and emissions intensity.

Ara invests in proven technologies, backs businesses that help these to grow, and builds decarbonization infrastructure. As of June 30, 2026, Ara Partners has approximately $10.6 billion of assets under management. By implementing industry leading carbon accounting and focusing on two primary pillars – emissions reduction and waste management, Ara is able to identify businesses centered at the nexus of emissions reduction and financial returns, investing in those that most strongly demonstrate this collinearity to accelerate the transition to a lower carbon economy. Ara Partners closed its third private equity fund in December 2023 with over $2.8 billion in capital commitments, its first Infrastructure Fund with $800 million in capital commitments in April 2025 and is raising a $1.5 billion Energy fund currently. The company operates from offices in Houston, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Dublin.

Ara fosters a culture of shared entrepreneurial spirit and intellectual curiosity. The firm prioritizes ideas over egos, embraces flexibility over rigid bureaucracy, and champions collaboration over knowledge silos. Ara’s Partners empower the team to explore new ideas and drive meaningful progress forward.

Ara Partners is seeking MBA Summer Associates to join our Private Equity, Infrastructure, and Energy teams for the summer of 2027. The Summer Associates will support the investment team (Private Equity and Infrastructure Summer Associates will be based in Boston and Energy in Houston).

Private Equity Summer Associate

About the Role

The MBA Summer Associate will be responsible for providing support to the investment team and will be based in Boston. The Summer Associate’s activities and responsibilities will include:

• Participation in underwriting and evaluation of new investments
• Mapping 1-2 sectors of interest or regulatory structures driving meaningful investments in decarbonization-related businesses (topics to be established with Ara investment team)
• Participating in monitoring of existing portfolio companies
• Assisting in creating marketing materials for firm, such as presentations for distribution to existing or potential investors
• Assist in compilation of ESG / impact reporting for investors
• Responding to investor inquiries, due diligence and data requests
• Interacting with Ara Portfolio Services; Impact, finance and legal teams and outside consultants

What We Are Looking For

• MBA, Class of 2028
• Prior professional experience in private equity/venture capital, investment banking, consulting, or Ara’s target sectors
• Strong interest in decarbonization opportunities in business and climate change policy
• Coursework in finance, economics and/or environmental studies
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Intellectually curious and creative
• Self-starter with strong work ethic

Culture Fit & Impact

• A hands-on team player who is prepared to take on any task
• Able to forge meaningful relationships with colleagues and portfolio company executives, creating an environment of open and trusting communication
• A self-starter, who can interact collaboratively, but operate independently as required
• Intellectually inquisitive, analytically strong and committed to continuous learning; open to learning from more experienced colleagues
• A high level of maturity and professional presence
• Comfortable operating in an entrepreneurial environment and willingness to help build the firm

Infrastructure Summer Associate

About the Role

The MBA Summer Associate will be responsible for providing support to the investment team and will be based in Boston. The Summer Associate’s activities and responsibilities will include:

• Participation in underwriting and evaluation of new investments
• Mapping sectors of interest across water, waste-to-value, transport and logistics, energy efficiency and low carbon molecules
• Participating in monitoring of existing portfolio companies
• Assisting in creating marketing materials for firm, such as presentations for distribution to existing or potential investors
• Responding to investor inquiries, due diligence and data requests
• Interacting with Ara Portfolio Services; Impact, finance and legal teams and outside consultants

What We Are Looking For

• MBA, Class of 2028
• Prior professional experience in private equity/venture capital, investment banking, consulting, or Ara’s target sectors
• Strong interest in decarbonization opportunities in business and climate change policy
• Coursework in finance, economics and/or environmental studies
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Intellectually curious and creative
• Self-starter with strong work ethic

Energy Summer Associate

About the Role

The MBA Summer Associate will be responsible for providing support to the investment team and will be based in Houston. The Summer Associate’s activities and responsibilities will include:

• Participation in underwriting and evaluation of new acquisitions of operating power, biofuels, and fuel distribution assets, including asset-level financial modelling and commodity margin analysis
• Assessing value creation levers on live opportunities: optimization and commercialization plans, hedging and merchant risk management
• Mapping 1-2 sub-sectors, commodity markets, or incentive and regulatory structures that drive the economics of conventional energy assets, for example capacity market design, 45Q, 45Z, LCFS, or RED III (topics to be established with the investment team)
• Participating in monitoring and performance optimization of existing portfolio assets
• Assisting in creating marketing materials for the firm, such as presentations for distribution to existing or potential investors

What We Are Looking For

• MBA, Class of 2028
• Prior professional experience in energy or infrastructure private equity, power and commodities, energy investment banking, project finance, consulting, or operating roles within Ara’s Energy sectors
• Comfort with commodity price exposure, merchant cash flows, hedging, and asset-level or project finance modelling
• Strong interest in the economics of decarbonizing conventional energy assets, and in energy, climate, and tax incentive policy
• Coursework in finance, economics, energy and/or environmental studies
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Intellectually curious and creative
• Self-starter with strong work ethic

Ara Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.