Manager, Product Marketing
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For over forty years, HarbourVest has been home to a committed team of professionals with an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to deliver impactful solutions to our clients and investing partners.
As our global firm grows, we continue to add individuals who seek a collaborative, open-door culture that values diversity and innovative thinking.
In our collegial environment that’s marked by low turnover and high energy, you’ll be inspired to grow and thrive. Here, you will be encouraged to build on your strengths and acquire new skills and experiences.
We are committed to fostering an environment of inclusion that promotes mutual respect among all employees. Understanding and valuing these differences optimizes the potential of both the individual and the firm.
HarbourVest is an equal opportunity employer.
This position will be a hybrid work arrangement, which translates to 2-3 days minimum per week in the office.
HarbourVest is seeking a commercially-focused and dedicated leader for the Presentations team within Product Marketing. This highly-visible role will focus on partnering with internal collaborators to lead all aspects of the efficient production and maintenance of high-quality presentations for prospect meetings, client meetings, conferences, due diligence presentations and other presentations globally to the institutional and private client channels.
Leading a global team, this candidate will partner with members of the HarbourVest product marketing team, key investor relations partners, and other leaders across the organization to ensure that standard content is being used where appropriate to meet the evolving needs of the business.
A successful candidate will be able to balance commercial opportunities against process guidelines and brings a problem-solving mentality to all interactions.
The ideal candidate is someone who is :
- Comfortable operating in a fast paced environment
- Able to articulate and implement a vision for a team
- Exceptional at partner management
- Skilled at solutioning on the fly
- Committed to coaching, managing, and cultivating talent
- Collaborative by nature
What you will do :
- Lead presentations team of 8 team members globally
- Partner across the team to uncover opportunities for efficiency and automation
- Optimize team experience by improving process, automation, resource planning, and prioritization
- Strengthen relationships with internal partners to ensure frictionless development of presentations
- Partner with team members across the globe to better understand local marketing needs and ensure global coordination
- Supervise processes for delivery, maintenance, and updates to presentation materials
- Utilize technology, where appropriate, to increase efficiency and global information sharing
- Understand fundraising requirements and priorities and ensure alignment of team projects and resources
- And other responsibilities as required
What you bring :
- Exceptional understanding of the relationship management and institutional fundraising process including : relationship development, consultative approach, customer needs and challenges, and decision making.
- Solid knowledge of private markets, specifically private equity, infrastructure and private credit
- Familiarity and understanding of nuances within private markets clients
- Familiarity with investment concepts and confident with numbers and analysis
- Strong project manager with proven skills in overseeing multiple priorities
- Ability to independently analyze information and tackle problems
- Superior teamwork skills and the ability to work across functional teams and all levels of the organization
- High level of initiative
- Extremely detail oriented
- Sense of humor, great teammate, energetic
Education Preferred :
Bachelor of Science (B.S) or equivalent experience
Experience :
10+ Years experience with 5-7 years in a management capacity preferred
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