StepStone is currently seeking recent graduates with excellent quantitative, qualitative, and interpersonal skills for an internship position on StepStone’s Product Management Team. StepStone offers Junior Analysts a unique opportunity to achieve a valuable learning experience working across the private equity industry and gain exposure to a variety of private market (private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and private debt) funds and investment strategies.

The Junior Analyst will work alongside the Product Management Team to support fundraising, client service and reporting efforts, and investment updates for StepStone commingled funds. 

This is a unique role that provides meaningful exposure to both the business development/fundraising and investment aspects of the private markets industry. Further, the position is an excellent opportunity to gain asset management industry perspective and learn about the different facets of the private markets business. Throughout the duration of this position, participants will build skills that will be valuable in a product management, communications & marketing, and business development context.

StepStone prides itself on the Firm’s collegial atmosphere, encouraging team-building initiatives and a collaborative approach. The ideal candidate will possess a strong academic record, excellent quantitative skills, high quality writing skills, and a positive, team-oriented attitude.

This is a 6 month contract position with the potential of extending.

Essential Internship Functions

• Support due diligence requests for Limited Partners and prospects, including coordination of compliance submissions and various data requests.
• Assist in content creation for various strategy specific and fund marketing initiatives for both internal and external consumption.
• Assist in CRM management and data input for fundraising updates to ensure accurate and timely pipeline updates are available for business management purposes.
• Update firm branded materials with content preparation, update PowerPoint decks, rebranding conversion, idea generation and format correction.

Qualifications:

• Must be able to work legally in the U.S. without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future
• Recent university graduate
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office (including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook)
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrable analytical capabilities, including strong quantitative/modeling skills
• Experience with CRMs (i.e., Salesforce) and research databases (i.e. Preqin) a plus
• Team player and outstanding work ethic

Salary Range: $25 / hour