We are global private markets specialists delivering tailored investment solutions, advisory services, and impactful, data driven insights to the world’s investors. Leveraging the power of our platform and our peerless intelligence across sectors, strategies, and geographies, we help identify the advantages and the answers our clients need to succeed.
Application deadline: September 19, 2025
The team you’ll join
StepStone Private Wealth is an investment platform with over $10 billion in AUM. StepStone Private Wealth is designed to expand access to the private markets for all investors. StepStone Private Wealth’s mission is to convert the private market advantages enjoyed by institutional investors into opportunities for individual investors. The team has over 100 employees with offices in Charlotte, Orlando, New York and La Jolla.
About the role
We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Legal Intern to support the StepStone Private Wealth Legal team in organizing, maintaining, and optimizing our legal document and folder systems. This internship offers hands-on experience in legal operations, compliance support, and document management within a dynamic legal environment. You will work with various teams within StepStone Private Wealth in particular Legal and Compliance.
What you’ll do
The Legal Intern will be responsible for supporting the document management of StepStone Private Wealth. The Legal Intern will organize legal documents to create a complete repository with all documents for StepStone Private Wealth. Education is also important and the Legal Intern will participate in various calls and team meetings to better understand and gain insights to the private markets.
Key responsibilities
- Audit and organize existing legal documents and folders across shared drives and document management platforms.
- Assist in migrating legal files from legacy systems to centralized platforms such as Box or SharePoint.
- Apply naming conventions and folder structures in accordance with internal compliance and legal standards.
- Identify outdated or redundant files and coordinate archival or deletion processes.
- Ensure appropriate access permissions and security protocols are applied to all folders and documents.
- Support the Legal team in preparing documentation for audits, regulatory filings, and internal reviews.
- Collaborate with attorneys and compliance officers to maintain accurate and up-to-date legal records.
What we’re looking for
- Must be able to work legally in the U.S. without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future
- Undergraduate student graduating anywhere from December 2026 through June 2028
- GPA of 3.2 or higher
- Must be able to work in-person in our Charlotte, NC office approximately 20 hours a week.
- Professionally communicate with all levels of staff, internal and external
- Highly organized individual who is detail-oriented, logical, able to multi-task and committed to meeting deadlines with limited supervision
- Strong process improvement orientation; project management skill sets
- Possess excellent communication skills, both verbally and in written form, and proficiency in the use of electronic document databases and filing systems software and other office equipment is required
- Flourish in a challenging, fast-paced, and professional environment with frequent shifts in priorities as business needs dictate
- Have a strong sense of integrity, behaving consistently with expressed values and ethical principles of StepStone
- Focus on specific goals and demonstrate a sense of personal growth, accountability and urgency for achieving results
Why join us?
At StepStone, we foster a supportive and inclusive team culture where collaboration and learning are the core of what we do. Our collegial atmosphere encourages teamwork, mentorship, and professional development. This summer internship is a great opportunity to gain practical experience and develop critical skills that will help you launch a successful career in private wealth.
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At StepStone, we believe that our people are our most important asset and crucial to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that strives to create an environment that empowers our employees and allows them to be heard, regardless of title or tenure. Our organizational community features multiple Employment Resource Groups as well as mentorship programs to enhance the employee experience for all.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, StepStone does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.
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StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) is a global private markets investment firm focused on providing customized investment solutions and advisory and data services to our clients. StepStone’s clients include some of the world’s largest public and private defined benefit and defined contribution pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies, as well as prominent endowments, foundations, family offices and private wealth clients, which include high-net-worth and mass affluent individuals.StepStone partners with its clients to develop and build private markets portfolios designed to meet their specific objectives across the private equity, infrastructure, private debt and real estate asset classes.
