Jobs at HarbourVest Partners

Leads platform engineering strategy, architecture, and enterprise modernization. Defines scalable shared frameworks, cloud-native capabilities, integration patterns, and technical standards across applications and infrastructure. Guides migrations to microservices, event-driven systems, and micro-frontends; mentors senior engineers; and drives DevOps, resilience, interoperability, reuse, and engineering excellence. Partners with executives, engineering, product, security, data, vendors, and technology stakeholders to translate business priorities into technical roadmaps and durable platform solutions.

Leads the Client Onboarding team supporting institutional and private wealth investors across fund products. Oversees daily onboarding execution, service standards, workload allocation, issue resolution, regulatory adherence, reporting, third-party provider relationships, and process improvements. Partners with internal teams and external administrators to mitigate risk, improve efficiency, support product launches, and deliver a high-quality client experience while coaching and developing team members.

Lead and support launches of new investment products from concept approval through first subscription. Manage project plans, dependencies, and cross-functional coordination; review commercial implications of legal and marketing documentation; gather and evaluate organizational input on product terms and operating models; maintain launch pipeline, tools, templates, and contribute to product research and strategy.

Supports external wholesalers and builds relationships with financial advisors across wirehouses, private banks, RIAs, and family offices. Drives sales and assets under management for private and registered investment products by coordinating meetings, maintaining CRM records, communicating complex alternative investments, monitoring competitive strategies, and following up with prospective and existing advisors. Requires strong capital markets knowledge, sales aptitude, communication skills, CRM proficiency, and Series 7 and Series 63 licenses.

Leads enterprise talent management initiatives, including succession planning, executive talent reviews, leadership development, readiness assessments, and organizational capability programs. Partners with HR business partners and senior leaders to identify succession risks, create development plans, manage talent governance, and support culture and transformation priorities. Builds talent metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting while handling confidential information and influencing stakeholders across global offices.

Supports and enhances Workday HR applications, including configuration, integrations, upgrades, testing, business process management, and EIB uploads. Partners with HR, IT, vendors, and auditors across Core HCM, recruiting, compensation, payroll, benefits, performance, learning, and annual HR cycles. Contributes to the Workday product roadmap and delivers technology solutions aligned with business needs.

Evaluate private equity, growth equity, and venture capital fund opportunities through due diligence, performance benchmarking, manager meetings, reference calls, research, and investment underwriting. Develop investment theses, prepare materials, present opportunities to the global Investment Committee, monitor fund investments, support client meetings, and build relationships with fund managers and internal stakeholders.

Leads technology and data strategy for product capabilities, third-party administrator integrations, fund operations, and investment product launches. Owns roadmaps, requirements, data quality controls, vendor relationships, delivery sequencing, testing, cutover planning, and launch readiness. Coordinates architects, data teams, operations, project managers, analysts, and business leaders while managing one direct report and influencing broader matrix teams.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, Git workflows, Azure cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure-as-code solutions. Support containerized applications, configuration management, security, production operations, incident resolution, and root cause analysis. Collaborate with data engineers, quantitative researchers, product teams, vendors, and platform engineering to improve the reliability and efficiency of data-centric applications and investment analytics platforms.

Source, evaluate, structure, and execute strategic partnerships and distribution alliances. Build financial models and decision materials, lead negotiations with Legal, drive cross-functional execution, manage post-close partner performance, and develop reporting dashboards and pipeline tracking (Salesforce) to measure economic contribution.

Leads the technology and data strategy for product capabilities, including administrator data platforms, fund structures, vendor relationships, roadmaps, requirements, data quality, launch readiness, and governance. The role coordinates technology, operations, engineering, and external partners; manages one employee; drives testing and cutover; and ensures successful delivery across investment products and wealth platforms.

Develop and prototype data-driven solutions for private markets: capture and translate business requirements, onboard and validate large datasets, build tests and integrations, collaborate with engineers, researchers, vendors and investment teams, and support analytics and reporting on a cloud-based platform using SQL, Python, and BI tools.

Supports fundraising and wealth business development across the DACH region for private markets products. Responsibilities include managing sales pipelines, investor due diligence, client questionnaires, presentations, capital commitments, market and competitor analysis, client segmentation, and coordination with product management and client services teams. The role supports senior salespeople while developing client-facing expertise and independently managing workstreams.

Supports investment performance measurement, benchmarking, portfolio analytics, and reporting for client service, fundraising, marketing, and investment teams. Prepares track records, composites, RFP and client-reporting data, benchmarking analyses, and ad hoc requests. Reconciles data, develops controls, resolves issues, improves processes, validates technology enhancements, and maintains reporting procedures while collaborating with global stakeholders.

Supports the growth and distribution of HarbourVest’s Evergreen private equity products across APAC and EMEA. Responsibilities include product management and operations support, sales enablement, investment and performance commentary, RFP and operational due diligence support, fund data and documentation maintenance, competitor monitoring, regional platform connectivity, and project management. The role requires private markets expertise, knowledge of open-ended fund operations and private wealth distribution, strong quantitative and communication skills, and advanced Excel and PowerPoint proficiency.

Manage digital content production and web publishing workflows in Adobe Experience Manager, coordinating briefs, reviews, approvals, authoring, and quality assurance. Coordinate digital projects, timelines, dependencies, agencies, and development partners through project management tools. Maintain governance, brand, and compliance standards; provide operational coverage; monitor web analytics; prepare performance reports; and identify content, UX, and process improvements.

Leads quantitative research for infrastructure and real-assets investing, applying statistical models to private-market risk, returns, investment opportunities, portfolio construction, and fundraising support. Develops research plans, analyzes large datasets, communicates actionable insights to investment and client-facing teams, and incorporates AI and machine-learning techniques into investment processes.

Support client onboarding and fund-closing processes across investment, sales, legal, compliance, tax, accounting, and marketing teams. Coordinate timelines, priorities, stakeholder communication, and risk monitoring. Review subscription and Know Your Customer documents, communicate with clients to resolve documentation issues, and help deliver an efficient, positive client experience.

Lead the strategy, development, commercialization, and lifecycle management of quantitative digital products for private-market investors. Partner with investment science, custom solutions, engineering, and customers to define roadmaps, translate needs into capabilities, validate assumptions, drive adoption, and improve product performance. Serve as a business-development resource, oversee enhancements, and mentor teams in product discovery, research, prototyping, delivery, and adoption practices.

Develop and execute institutional product marketing content for infrastructure and real assets strategies. Lead product launches, fundraising support, messaging frameworks, competitive research, and go-to-market initiatives. Create presentations, factsheets, DDQs, PPM content, webcasts, events, product insights, and sales communications while coordinating with investment, legal, compliance, operations, investor relations, and external counsel teams. Ensure consistent brand messaging, quality, and timely delivery across multiple priorities.