Job Description Summary

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. You will receive 18 remote workdays per quarter to use at your discretion, subject to manager approval. For example, you may choose to work in the office 4 days per week and take one remote day weekly (typically 13 weeks per quarter), leaving 5 additional remote days to be used as needed.

HarbourVest is seeking an experienced valuation professional to join its Evergreen Valuations team. This individual will play a key role in the daily valuation of evergreen fund investments.

We are seeking an IT Business Analyst to support the data, reporting, and visualization capabilities of our Client Portal. This role will partner with business interested parties, product owners, data engineering teams, and external partners to ensure the reliable delivery and support of client-facing reports, dashboards, and investment data.

The ideal candidate brings strong expertise in Power BI, investment data, Snowflake integrations, data mapping, and production support, with the ability to translate business needs into clear technical requirements and high-quality solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Data, Reporting & Visualization

Gather and document requirements for client-facing reports, dashboards, metrics, and visualizations.
Support the development and enhancement of Power BI solutions and validate data for accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
Maintain business rules, data definitions, reporting requirements, and operational documentation.

Investment Data & Snowflake Integration

Support investment data across client, fund, portfolio, transaction, and performance domains.
Develop and maintain source-to-target mappings, transformation rules, and integration requirements.
Partner with Data Engineering on Snowflake solutions and analyze data flows across source systems, Snowflake, Power BI, and the Client Portal.
Perform data reconciliation, impact analysis, and root-cause analysis to address data quality issues.

Production Support & Operational Excellence

Provide functional support for Client Portal data, reporting, and visualization capabilities.
Participate in incident triage, issue investigation, root-cause analysis, and resolution.
Support production releases through testing, validation, post-deployment monitoring, and maintenance of runbooks and support procedures.
Find opportunities to improve data quality, reporting processes, and increase support efficiency.

Offshore Support Partner Coordination

Work closely with, and at times provide functional management of, the offshore support partner in India.
Coordinate day-to-day priorities, work intake, assignments, project progress, support coverage, and issue resolution across time zones.
Provide business context and requirement clarification, review the work, and ensure alignment with quality and service expectations.
Support knowledge transfer, operational readiness, open status reporting, and accountability across the distributed team.

Business Analysis & Partner Management

Facilitate requirements sessions and translate business needs into user stories, process flows, functional requirements, and acceptance criteria.
Support backlog prioritization, solution design, user acceptance testing, and release planning.
Act as a liaison among business users, product teams, data engineers, developers, support teams, and third-party partners.

Qualifications

Required

5+ years of experience in a Business Analyst, Data Analyst, or related role.
Demonstrated experience with Power BI, Snowflake or a similar cloud data platform, data mapping, data integration, and reporting requirements.
Working knowledge of SQL and Python experience analyzing, validating, and reconciling data.
Experience supporting production applications and resolving data-related issues.
Excellent analytical, communication, documentation, and partner management skills.
Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, business-friendly language.

Preferred

Experience in private equity, asset management, financial services, or investment operations.
Familiarity with client, investor, fund, or investment performance reporting.
Experience supporting a client-facing portal or digital platform.
Experience coordinating or functionally managing offshore support teams, preferably in India.
Experience with Agile delivery practices and tools such as Jira and Confluence.

Success in This Role

Success will be measured by the accurate and reliable delivery of Client Portal data and reporting, clear requirements and data mappings, timely resolution of production issues, effective coordination with the offshore support partner, and strong collaboration across business, product, data, and technology teams.

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Base Salary Range

$90,000.00 - $100,000.00

This USD base salary range represents only one component of total compensation for this role and is provided in accordance with local requirements. This role is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, which is determined based on individual and overall firm performance. In addition to salary and bonus eligibility, total compensation may include participation in long-term reward programs (typically for more senior-level roles). We also offer a comprehensive total rewards package that may include retirement contributions, health insurance, income protection, paid time off and leave benefits as well as well-being programs. Our total rewards offerings are influenced by several business factors, and eligibility for certain components will vary by position and geography. Please note the posted ranges do not apply outside the U.S. and should not be converted to other currencies as a proxy for compensation in other countries.

About the company

HarbourVest Partners is a global private markets investment firm that manages private equity allocations through fund-of-funds, secondary investments, and direct investments in operating companies. Clients invest, and HarbourVest allocates capital across venture capital, leveraged buyouts, and other strategies via funds, secondaries, and direct co-investments, with access through commingled funds or separately managed accounts and fees consisting of ongoing management fees and potential performance fees. The firm differentiates itself with a globally scaled, integrated platform that combines multiple private equity channels and offers both pooled and bespoke account structures. Its goal is to make private markets accessible to a wide range of investors by providing flexible, multi-channel investment solutions.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

$10.2B

Headquarters

Boston, Massachusetts

Founded

1982

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

HarbourVest raised $2.4 billion for private-credit secondaries by September 2026.
HCF VII closed at $4.75 billion on July 10, 2026, exceeding its target.
Advent and HarbourVest agreed September 2026 to buy FNZ Bank, extending wealth-platform reach.

What critics are saying

HVPE still trades at a stubborn high-20% NAV discount despite 2026 buybacks and tenders.
Software repricing cut HarbourVest's Q1 2026 buyout benchmark to minus 1.6%.
Blackstone, Ardian, and Hamilton Lane attack HarbourVest's secondaries and private-credit evergreen franchises daily.

What makes HarbourVest unique

HarbourVest manages $165 billion AUM and spans primaries, secondaries, co-investments, and private credit.
Its Evergreen platform gives wealth clients institutional private-market access through one operating system.
Four decades of sourcing relationships make HarbourVest a preferred buyer for complex GP-led deals.

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Markets Group

Oct 21st, 2026

Nest raises HarbourVest private equity mandate to over $2.5B from $950M

Nest, a UK defined contribution workplace pension scheme, has raised its private equity commitment to HarbourVest Partners to more than £2 billion, up from £750 million when the firm was appointed in 2022. The mandate invests through co-investments in about 60 private companies across 17 countries in North America, the UK, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Nine are UK-based. Nest has more than £3 billion in private equity, about 5% of its £68.4 billion in assets under management as of June 30. About £566 million of that is in UK private companies, including 9fin and Citation. HarbourVest led 9fin's latest $170 million funding round, which valued the company at $1.3 billion. "Private equity is a key component of our private markets strategy," said Elizabeth Fernando, Nest's chief investment officer. She said the aim is a more diversified portfolio for the scheme's more than 14 million members.

Yahoo Finance

Sep 16th, 2026

HarbourVest Partners hires Tony Ranaldi as managing director to lead private credit evergreen strategy

HarbourVest Partners has appointed Tony Ranaldi as managing director to lead portfolio management for its Private Credit Evergreen strategy. Based in Boston, Ranaldi will oversee portfolio construction, investment strategy, investment monitoring, liquidity and risk management for the firm's Private Credit Evergreen solutions. Ranaldi brings nearly three decades of investment experience in private credit, opportunistic credit and private equity. He joins from Sixth Street, where he served as a senior advisor sourcing and evaluating opportunities across private credit. Previously, Ranaldi founded Tucks Point Partners and held senior investment and portfolio management roles at Berkshire Partners and DDJ Capital Management. The appointment strengthens HarbourVest's Evergreen platform capabilities as the global private markets asset manager continues expanding its offerings for investors.

GFM Limited

Aug 19th, 2026

UC Investments sells $1bn private equity portfolio to HarbourVest.

UC Investments sells $1bn private equity portfolio to HarbourVest. * August 19, 2026 * - 9:28 am The University of California's investment office has sold around $1bn of private equity interests to secondaries specialist HarbourVest Partners, providing another sizeable transaction for a market that has seen discounts widen amid renewed pressure on private assets, according to a report by Bloomberg. The report cites unnamed people familiar with the matter as reeling that UC Investments, which oversees roughly $190bn across retirement, endowment and cash portfolios, began the sale process earlier this year. The portfolio changed hands at a discount of more than 10% and includes interests in software and other technology-focused buyout funds, the people said. Campbell Lutyens advised UC Investments on the transaction. UC Investments' latest annual report showed that its private assets had a market value of approximately $39bn as of mid-2025. Private equity accounted for slightly more than half of that exposure.

AltAssets

Aug 6th, 2026

HarbourVest hires DWS executive to expand private wealth coverage across Southern Europe.

HarbourVest hires DWS executive to expand private wealth coverage across Southern Europe. August 6, 2026 HarbourVest Partners has brought in former DWS executive Guido Lombardi as private wealth lead for France, Belgium, Luxe If you would like to access this article you must become a Premium Subscriber. Premium subscribers receive complete access to its daily breaking news, premium stories, weekly Fundraising & IR Review, Knowledge Bank and LP profiles - all which are accessible via its mobile platform.

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