Sixth Street’s Summer Internship program is an opportunity for rising seniors to learn how to be a fundamental investor at a fast-paced, top-tier global investment Firm. At Sixth Street, our team builds businesses, invests for growth, acquires assets, provides direct financing, identifies value in public markets, purchases royalty streams, and regularly develops first-of-their-kind structures to meet the strategic objectives of companies and management teams across all stages of growth.
Overview of Program:
- Participate in a 10-week internship program designed to give you a robust understanding of Sixth Street’s investing strategies
- Acquire extensive training and develop your understanding of financial products, underwriting, modeling, and accounting
- Obtain hands-on, meaningful, and substantive work experience in a small class that is representative of our Analyst Program
- Gain investing acumen across geographies and asset classes (debt and equity)
- Perform in-depth industry research to support our investment evaluation process
- Get exposure to senior management and a network of alternative asset management industry leaders
- Conduct due diligence on investment opportunities, including in-depth analysis on companies and industries (detailed valuation and financial modeling, sensitivity analysis, DCF analysis, and comparable analysis)
- Develop and maintain financial models (Excel), forecasting and analyzing cash flow, capital structure, acquisition / disposition strategy, for existing assets and new investments
- Prepare investment memoranda to support financial analysis, analyze market conditions (macro and micro), and outline strategy and investment returns
Investing Internship Placement Opportunities:
- San Francisco Office: Growth, Healthcare
- New York Office: Asset Based Finance, Credit Market Strategies, Structured Credit
- Austin Office: Direct Lending, Growth
Qualifications:
- Qualified candidates will ideally be pursuing a BA/BS degree
- Currently enrolled in an accredited program and must be on track to graduate in either Winter 2025 or Spring 2026
- Excellent academic record – please include GPA on your resume and note that we may request a copy of your transcript
- Applicable coursework or previous internship in the field of investments or financial markets
- Excellent work ethic and high degree of professionalism
- Commitment to a team and goal-oriented environment
- Strong attention to detail, ability to multi-task and work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamically changing environment
- Strong ethical standards and integrity
Recruiting Timeline:
- Sixth Street will be accepting applications on a rolling basis
Internship Dates:
- June 2, 2025 - August 8, 2025
Investing Teams Overview
Asset Based Finance – New York
Sixth Street Asset Based Finance focuses on asset/platform investing and origination across finance markets, including commercial and residential mortgages, renewables and energy finance, consumer asset classes, infrastructure debt, transportation, and commercial equipment. Our Asset Based Finance business works closely with the Firm’s Insurance platform, including Talcott Financial Group. Asset Based Finance is a key driver of our capabilities as a strategic capital partner to companies and management teams and a solutions provider at scale.
Credit Market Strategies (CMS) – New York
The Sixth Street Credit Market Strategies (CMS) loan analyst team invests in the broadly syndicated leveraged loan market through a variety of investment structures, including CLO securitization vehicles and separately managed accounts. The team underwrites leveraged finance issuers across sectors with analysts developing sector-level expertise, and actively manages its investment vehicles to drive returns for its investors. The loan team works closely with its Structured Credit counterparts to provide comprehensive investment options across leveraged credit.
Direct Lending – Austin
Sixth Street Direct Lending creates flexible, fully committed investments in large-cap and middle-market businesses. We focus on directly originated thematic investments with dedicated teams across both North America and Europe. Our ability to solve for complexity enables us to deliver certainty and provide long-term capital solutions to the companies and management teams with which we partner.
Growth – Austin/San Francisco
Sixth Street Growth is the Firm’s dedicated platform for making private investments in growth-oriented companies. The Sixth Street Growth team partners with companies and management teams to provide bespoke, accretive financing solutions that often fall between traditional growth equity and commercial debt. Select current and past representative Sixth Street Growth investments include Airbnb, AirTrunk, AvidXchange, Gainsight, Kaseya, MasterControl, Paycor, PayScale, PaySimple and Spotify.
Healthcare – San Francisco
Sixth Street’s Healthcare & Life Sciences team provides strategic capital tailored to healthcare and pharma business timelines, whether to develop or launch new medicines, make asset acquisitions, or fund strategic projects. We invest across the sector having partnered with companies in drug development and marketing, devices and diagnostics, generics, pharma and healthcare business services, and contract research, development, and manufacturing.
Structured Credit – New York
Sixth Street’s Structured Credit team invests across both public and private corporate credit securitizations and structured transactions. The team looks at investments up and down the capital structure and across the risk-return spectrum. A large part of the team’s activities are focused on the global CLO market. The team works closely with its counterparts in the CMS leveraged loans group, as well as adjacent Sixth Street business units including the Firm’s Insurance platform, Asset-Backed Finance, Direct Lending and Fundamental Strategies businesses.
Compensation
The annualized base pay for this position is expected to fall between $95,000 - $110,000 and will be prorated based on the duration of the Summer Internship program. The annualized base pay offered to the chosen candidate will be commensurate with a candidate’s relevant experience and other qualifications for the position, as determined by Sixth Street in its sole discretion. Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.
Additional compensation: Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with the advertised role.
About Sixth Street
Founded in 2009, Sixth Street is a leading global investment Firm dedicated to developing themes and offering solutions to companies across all stages of growth. Our Firm is designed for cross-platform collaboration at scale: we build businesses, invest for growth, acquire assets, provide direct financing, identify value in public markets, purchase royalty streams, and regularly develop first-of-their-kind structures to meet the strategic objectives of management teams. We do all this globally and as one unified team of investment and control-side professionals working on behalf of our institutional investors and their beneficiaries around the world. We believe our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is a competitive advantage. Everyone on our team contributes their perspectives and expertise to help us solve complex challenges and get to the right answer. At Sixth Street, the best idea wins. From how we conduct business to how we engage in our communities, everything we do at Sixth Street is rooted in our commitment to our core value:
- Cross-Platform: We think across the business and avoid silos at all costs.
- Responsibility: We are accountable for our business, to our team, and to our communities.
- Ethical: We are ethical and direct in word and deed.
- Action: We initiate, execute, and deliver results.
- Teamwork: We are better together.
- Entrepreneurship: We seek to innovate both inside and outside our business.
Sixth Street is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, genetic history, marital status, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran or military status, disability, genetic predisposition, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
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