Full-Time

Quantitative Product Manager

HarbourVest

HarbourVest

1,001-5,000 employees

Global private markets investment manager

Compensation Overview

$200k - $210k/yr

+ Discretionary annual bonus + Long-term reward programs

Boston, MA, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid schedule with up to 18 remote workdays per quarter, subject to manager approval.

Bachelor's, Master's, MBA

Category
Product (1)
Required Skills
Market Research
Data Science
Data Analysis

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Requirements
  • A successful track record of launching digital products from conception through market commercialization, particularly for financial products and/or products for institutional investors.
  • A proven history of driving product decisions through a deep understanding of customer journeys and prioritizing customer beliefs and behaviors to define product strategy and roadmaps.
  • A bias toward action and a hands-on approach to driving implementation.
  • An ability to enhance adoption of key product lifecycle activities, including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management.
  • Experience inspiring change within organizations and leading team members across multiple functions.
  • Extensive knowledge of the product development lifecycle, technical design, quantitative analysis, and data analytics.
  • Experience integrating customer insights into product development.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of investments, asset allocation, portfolio optimization, and cash flow modeling techniques.
Responsibilities
  • Partner with Custom Solutions and Quantitative Investment Science teams to drive execution of the digital product vision and own implementation of the product roadmap to achieve business goals.
  • Lead the entire product lifecycle through planning and execution, develop new products and features, implement those features, improve infrastructure, and support the business.
  • Collaborate with internal teams and directly engage with customers to gather insights and validate product assumptions.
  • Translate customer needs into product capabilities through collaboration with product users and engineering teams.
  • Serve as the first-line business development resource, evangelize products, and drive releases with customers.
  • Be responsible for product performance and accountable for investing in enhancements to achieve business goals.
  • Mentor the development team on product development practices, including solution generation, market research, storyboarding, mind-mapping, prototyping methods, product adoption strategies, and product delivery.
Desired Qualifications
  • Ten or more years of digital product leadership experience in the investment or financial technology sectors.
  • Prior experience in private equity, alternative investments, and/or institutional investing.
  • Familiarity with data science, quantitative modeling, and/or statistical techniques.

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

$10.6B

Headquarters

Boston, Massachusetts

Founded

1982

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • UC Investments sold $1 billion of stakes to HarbourVest on August 19, 2026.
  • HarbourVest won a $4.75 billion co-investment close, exceeding its $4 billion target.
  • Brian Taranto and Kaitlin May joined in July 2026 to scale wealth products.

What critics are saying

  • HVPE paused new commitments through 2026, signaling weak visible reinvestment opportunities.
  • HVPE traded at a persistent high-20% NAV discount in April 2026, pressuring fees.
  • If discounts persist through July 2029, continuation votes and fundraising credibility erode.

What makes HarbourVest unique

  • HarbourVest closed HCF VII at $4.75 billion on July 10, 2026.
  • It combines primaries, secondaries, and co-investments across one global private-markets platform.
  • Two decades of local private-wealth hiring deepens distribution in Europe and the United States.

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Aug 19th, 2026
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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.

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Aug 5th, 2026
Harbourvest has no regrets about expanding into Switzerland.

Harbourvest has no regrets about expanding into Switzerland. Two years after opening an office in Zurich, the US private markets specialist Harbourvest says the move has paid off. Clients value the firm's local presence, which has significantly strengthened its position in Switzerland, according to Daniel Signer, Head of Switzerland. He also emphasises the diversification benefits that private equity can offer investors. In light of the headlines, Harbourvest's clients have many questions. "We explain to them how we've built and diversified our portfolios," say Daniel Signer and Alexander Eschmann Wednesday, 5 August 2026 06:00

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Aug 4th, 2026
Advent, HarbourVest agree to acquire FNZ Bank in Germany.

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