Firm Overview:
H.I.G. Capital is a leading global private equity investment firm with $75 billion of assets under management with a focus on the mid cap segment of the market. The H.I.G. family of funds includes private equity, growth equity, real estate, direct lending, special situation credit, and growth-stage healthcare. We focus on providing capital to businesses with attractive growth potential and align ourselves with committed management teams and entrepreneurs to help grow businesses of significant value. Our team of over 500 investment professionals has substantial operating, consulting, technology, and financial management experience, enabling us to contribute meaningfully to our portfolio companies. H.I.G. is based in Miami, with offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco, and affiliate offices in Hamburg, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, and Paris in Europe as well as Bogotá, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo in Latin America, Dubai in the Middle East, and Hong Kong in Asia.
Role Overview:
H.I.G. Capital is hiring a Director, AI Enablement to execute the firm's AI strategy for investment professionals and front-office staff. The role owns ACE (Advanced Context Engine), H.I.G.'s proprietary single-pane-of-glass AI platform, and is accountable for the scalable architecture, roadmap, systems integration, agent development, and adoption work required to translate AI capability into measurable gains in productivity, deal velocity, and decision quality. The Director will set platform direction in close partnership with firm leadership, including the CTO, the GenAI Steering Committee, the Managing Director of Commercial and Digital, deal team leadership, and the AI Training and Development function.
Role Responsibilities:
ACE Platform Architecture and Roadmap:
Oversee the scalable architecture and product roadmap for ACE in partnership with the CTO and firm leadership
Translate front-office workflows into platform requirements, release plans, and reliability and performance targets
Manage vendor and partner relationships supporting the platform and represent H.I.G. with strategic AI providers
Systems Integration:
Lead data, MCP, and connector integration across deal sourcing, CRM, research, document management, and portfolio reporting systems
Establish reusable integration patterns, evaluation harnesses, and governance for new connections
Partner with IT, InfoSec, and Data teams on architecture, access controls, and data lineage
Bot and Agent Development Prioritization:
Maintain a prioritized backlog of bots, agents, and skills with explicit ROI hypotheses and success metrics
Direct internal and partner development resources against the highest-value front-office workflows
Set quality, evaluation, observability, and rollback standards prior to release
Investment Professional Adoption and Enablement:
Drive adoption across investment professionals through workflow integration, white-glove support, and embedded enablement
Define and report on usage, impact, and quality metrics by team and workflow
Partner with the Director of AI Training and Development on capability building and the GenAI Champions network
Surface portfolio-relevant patterns to the Operating Partner team where appropriate
Cross-Firm Coordination and Governance:
Coordinate with the GenAI Steering Committee, Champions network, and senior firm leadership on direction and trade-offs
Contribute to AI governance, acceptable use, and skills policy
Requirements & Qualifications:
Required:
8+ years of combined experience across product management, applied AI deployment, and enterprise software, including at least 3 years leading AI or platform initiatives at scale
Demonstrated track record shipping AI or agent products in production with measurable business impact
Strong technical fluency in LLM tooling (Anthropic, OpenAI), retrieval, agent frameworks, MCP, and enterprise integration patterns
Experience driving adoption of new technology with senior, demanding professional users
Excellent written and verbal communication and executive presence
Preferred:
Prior experience in private equity, asset management, or other financial services
Familiarity with deal workflows (sourcing, diligence, portfolio monitoring, and exits)
Experience with Microsoft 365, Salesforce or equivalent CRM, and the modern data stack
Experience hiring and leading small, high-leverage technical teams
Bachelor's degree required; MBA or equivalent commercial training is a plus
Skills Required
- 8+ years combined experience across product management, applied AI deployment, and enterprise software
- At least 3 years leading AI or platform initiatives at scale
- Demonstrated track record shipping AI or agent products in production with measurable business impact
- Strong technical fluency in LLM tooling (Anthropic, OpenAI), retrieval, agent frameworks, MCP, and enterprise integration patterns
- Experience driving adoption of new technology with senior, demanding professional users
- Excellent written and verbal communication and executive presence
- Bachelor's degree
- Prior experience in private equity, asset management, or other financial services
- Familiarity with deal workflows (sourcing, diligence, portfolio monitoring, and exits)
- Experience with Microsoft 365, Salesforce or equivalent CRM, and the modern data stack
- Experience hiring and leading small, high-leverage technical teams
- MBA or equivalent commercial training
What We Do
H.I.G. Capital is a leading global private investment firm with $62 billion of equity capital currently under management.* H.I.G.'s family of funds includes private equity, real estate, growth equity and debt/credit. H.I.G. Capital has invested in and controlled over 400 organizations globally since it was founded more than 20 years ago. The firm currently manages a portfolio of companies with combined sales in excess of $53 billion. H.I.G. is based in Miami, with offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Atlanta, and affiliate offices in London, Hamburg, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan and Paris in Europe as well as Bogotá, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in Latin America and Dubai in the Middle East. H.I.G. focuses on providing capital to small and mid-sized businesses with attractive growth potential. The firm invests in management-led buyouts and recapitalizations of well-managed and profitable manufacturing and service businesses. H.I.G. Capital also has extensive experience with operational turnarounds and financial restructurings. The firm has a proven strategy built around; (1) a flexible investment approach which emphasizes speed as well as responsiveness; (2) a large team with unique skills and capabilities, as well as a "can-do" approach; (3) a long-standing focus on small and medium sized businesses typically from $50-500 million in value, as well as an understanding of the challenges and opportunities these business present. * Based on total capital raised by H.I.G. Capital and its affiliates.
