Senior Associate, AI Solutions Engineer

Join Hamilton Lane, a global leader in private markets, as we scale to meet the demands of our growing client base. Here, you’ll work with ambitious, high‑performing teams built on integrity, candor and collaboration, backed by our market-leading data and technology. We invest heavily in our people and our partners, giving you the platform to enrich lives, safeguard futures and grow your career.  
 
What We Do 
As one of the largest private markets investment firms globally, we provide innovative solutions to institutional and private wealth investors around the world, specializing in flexibility and full-spectrum access. We currently employ approximately 800 professionals operating in offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East, and have $1.0 trillion in assets under management and supervision, composed of $146.1 billion in discretionary assets and $871.5 billion in non-discretionary assets, as of December 31, 2025.  

We are seeking a Senior Associate, Applied AI to help solve high-impact business problems using advanced AI capabilities, including agentic AI, large language models (LLMs), and natural language processing (NLP). This is a hands-on, business facing role focused on transforming complex, ambiguous challenges into scalable, secure, and production-ready AI solutions that deliver measurable outcomes. The ideal candidate will partner closely with business and technology teams to identify opportunities, define requirements, and embed practical AI solutions into enterprise workflows across the firm.

This is a highly visible, hands-on role for someone who understands private markets and can translate that understanding into practical AI solutions that deliver measurable business value.

• Partner with business stakeholders across, investments, client solutions, operations, legal/compliance, finance, and technology teams to identify, frame, and prioritize high-value business problems that can be addressed with AI.
• Translate business needs into clear AI use cases, problem statements, success metrics, guardrails, and delivery plans.
• Architect and design scalable, secure agentic AI solutions, including RAG, tool use, multi-step agents, and task orchestration, that interacts safely with firm data, systems, and processes.
• Select and configure the right combination of internal capabilities and vendor solutions to address specific business needs.

• Work end-to-end from idea to production: discovery, solution design, pilot, rollout, and continuous improvement.
• Embed AI agents into day-to-day workflows (e.g. research, deal execution, investor communications, compliance reviews, finance operations) so that business users see tangible time savings and risk reduction.
• Lead process mapping sessions to understand current-state workflows and redesign them with AI in mind.
   

• Serve as product owner for internal agentic AI solutions, partnering with business users on the vision, roadmap, and backlog of enhancements and new use cases.
• Translate business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and release plans using tools such as monday.com (or similar).
• Coordinate with Enterprise Technology, Data Engineering, InfoSec, and vendor partners to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery.
• Establish and run lightweight governance around AI initiatives (prioritization forums, stakeholder updates, risk reviews).
   

• Define and track KPIs and ROI for AI initiatives (e.g., hours saved, cycle-time reduction, error rate reduction, revenue uplift, user adoption and satisfaction).
• Design experiments and A/B tests to validate impact and inform scale-up decisions.
• Build feedback loops and telemetry into AI solutions to continuously improve accuracy, safety, user experience, and business value.
• Regularly communicate outcomes and learnings to senior stakeholders through clear, concise storytelling (decks, demos, dashboards, and written summaries).
   

• Create and deliver training, playbooks, and office hours to help non-technical users safely and effectively use AI tools and agents in their daily work.
• Help shape and refine AI usage guidelines, policies, and guardrails in collaboration with Legal/Compliance, Risk, and Information Security.
• Stay current on the evolving AI vendor landscape and private markets–specific solutions, and bring forward recommendations on where Hamilton Lane should invest.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience working with business stakeholders to build and deliver technology, analytics, or AI solutions, with at least 1 year of experience building agentic AI solutions.
• Strong track record of delivering AI, analytics, and/or technology solution in complex enterprise environments, with proven ability to solve business problems using AI.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing AI solutions in an enterprise context, including agentic AI workflows, LLM applications, and language-driven use cases.
• Experience building scalable, secure AI solutions that interact with enterprise data and systems.
• Deep familiarity with private markets or alternative investments is highly preferred, including areas such as fund structures, portfolio monitoring, reporting, capital calls/distributions, legal documentation, and investor communication.
• Proven experience working cross-functionally with business stakeholders, technology teams, and external vendors to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Strong product ownership skills, including backlog management, requirements definition, prioritization, and stakeholder alignment.
• Solid project management skills and experience using tools such as monday.com, Jira, or similar to coordinate across multiple teams.
• Experience measuring and communicating AI or technology ROI, including both quantitative and qualitative benefits.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to explain AI capabilities, limitations, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Undergraduate degree in engineering, mathematics, computer science, data science, or a related quantitative field; an advanced degree is a plus.
   

Nice to Haves:

• Experience integrating AI solutions with cloud-based data platforms (e.g., Azure, Snowflake) and existing analytics tools.
• Familiarity with concepts such as vector search, RAG, observability/monitoring for AI applications, and AI safety/guardrails.
• Comfort working with Python or similar scripting languages to prototype workflows, connect APIs, or orchestrate tools (no heavy data engineering expected in this role).
• Prior experience in consulting, product, or innovation function driving firmwide change and adoption of new technologies.

Benefits

At Hamilton Lane, our benefits philosophy is simple: to provide our employees with a competitive suite of benefits and services to help navigate through the complexities and challenges of working, living, raising a family, and eventually retiring. To do this, Hamilton Lane offers the following benefits:

Enhancing Your Physical and Emotional Health 

Employees have access to healthcare coverage, mental health resources, health & fitness reimbursement program, and Wellness Rewards Program.

Developing Your Career

Tuition and certification reimbursement programs are available, along with continual education and development trainings for you to grow with Hamilton Lane.

Supporting Your Family & Community

For our communities, Hamilton Lane provides paid time off to volunteer and compensates for referring qualified candidates that join our team. 

For growing family, we offer an adoption reimbursement program, paid time off for new parents and newlyweds, and provide travel support for nursing parents.  

Safeguarding Your Financial Wellbeing

Hamilton Lane contributes to retirement programs and offers an employee stock purchasing plan.

Hamilton Lane is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other classification prohibited by applicable law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please contact Human Resources at [email protected].

Hamilton Lane is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Hamilton Lane via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Hamilton Lane. No fee shall be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Hamilton Lane as a result of the referral or through other means.