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Position Overview:
StepStone is seeking a driven and analytical Associate or Senior Associate to support the growth and operational success of its technology platform, SPI by StepStone. This hybrid role combines new client acquisition with sales operations, focusing on expanding the institutional investor client base while improving the efficiency and effectiveness of sales processes. The successful candidate will identify, engage, and convert prospective institutional investor clients while supporting sales operations through process optimization and performance analysis. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of the institutional investor landscape and a proven track record of selling data, analytics, or reporting solutions to limited partners (LPs).
Primary Responsibilities:
- Build and manage a robust pipeline of prospective institutional investor clients including pension funds, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and other organizations
- Execute a full-cycle prospecting motion: identify and research target accounts, initiate outreach, conduct discovery calls, deliver product demonstrations, manage the evaluation process, and close new subscriptions
- Develop outbound strategies leveraging industry conferences, events, referrals, and direct outreach to generate qualified pipeline
- Partner with marketing and product teams to develop account-targeted messaging and campaigns that resonate with LP buyers
- Maintain current knowledge of the competitive landscape
- Provide structured feedback to product and leadership on buyer needs, feature gaps, pricing sensitivity, and competitive dynamics encountered in the market
- Monitor trends in LP reporting, private markets data standards (e.g., ILPA templates), and technology adoption among allocators to inform go-to-market strategy
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date CRM records (Salesforce) for all prospect activity, pipeline stage, and forecasted close dates
- Coordinate with finance, legal, and product teams to support contract management, pricing workflows, and product onboarding and support subscription renewal processes
- Report regularly on pipeline health, conversion metrics, and new business results to senior leadership
- Develop quarterly territory plans that set targets by segment, channel, and geography
Secondary Responsibilities:
- Assist on broader SPI by StepStone platform initiatives, account management, contributing to enhancements to platform
- Assists with projects, as needed
Qualifications
- Minium of 3 years of experience in a sales, business development, or client-facing commercial role, preferably in the private market industry
- Demonstrated experience selling SaaS, data, analytics, or reporting solutions to institutional investors, asset allocators, or related financial services organizations
- Strong understanding of private markets, LP reporting requirements, fund performance analytics, and the allocator operating environment
- Excellent communication and presentation skills; ability to command credibility with sophisticated institutional audiences
- Prior experience at or deep familiarity with private markets data and technology providers
- Proven ability to manage and close complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles
- Hands-on experience with Salesforce or a comparable CRM platform, including pipeline management, reporting configuration, and workflow administration
- Strong analytical skills with demonstrated ability to build and maintain sales reporting, forecasting models, or operational dashboards
- Highly motivated self-starter who quickly adapts to a fast-changing environment to learn recent technologies and tools
- Bachelor degree required
Preferred
- Existing network of LP-side relationships across institutional investors
- Experience with enterprise pricing, contract negotiation, and legal review processes
Salary Range: $90,000 - $105,000
The salary range is an estimate of pay for this position. Actual pay may vary depending on job-related factors that can include location, education, skill, and experience. The salary range does not include any benefits or other forms of possible compensation that may be available to employees.
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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.
Candidates must be at least 18 years old to apply.
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Skills Required
- Minimum of 3 years experience in a sales, business development, or client-facing commercial role
- Demonstrated experience selling SaaS, data, analytics, or reporting solutions to institutional investors or financial services organizations
- Strong understanding of private markets, LP reporting requirements, and fund performance analytics
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with credibility to institutional audiences
- Prior experience at or familiarity with private markets data and technology providers
- Proven ability to manage and close complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles
- Hands-on experience with Salesforce or a comparable CRM platform, including pipeline management and reporting configuration
- Strong analytical skills; ability to build and maintain sales reporting, forecasting models, or operational dashboards
- Highly motivated self-starter who adapts quickly to changing environments and new technologies
- Bachelor degree
- Existing network of LP-side relationships across institutional investors
- Experience with enterprise pricing, contract negotiation, and legal review processes
StepStone Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about StepStone Group and has not been reviewed or approved by StepStone Group.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as generous with multiple plan options, and in some cases employee‑only premiums are fully paid. Feedback suggests wellness resources and plan choice enhance the overall value of the package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) program that is viewed favorably. Feedback suggests long‑term incentive elements complement core retirement benefits.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental support includes leave coaching, paid parental leave, and resources for new parents alongside related travel and logistical supports. Feedback suggests these policies are a meaningful part of the benefits package.
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What We Do
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.
