Product Marketing Associate, Wealth Product Marketing

Product Marketing Associate, Wealth Product Marketing page is loaded Product Marketing Associate, Wealth Product Marketing Apply locations London time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id R1940

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, which translates to 3 days minimum per week in the office.

HarbourVest is seeking a Product Marketing Associate to join our Wealth Product Marketing team (WPM) in London , which is responsible for supporting the marketing, fundraising and new product development efforts across HarbourVest's growing suite of evergreen products globally. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual to join a newly formed team in a dynamic and fast-growing part of HarbourVest.

What you will do:

Act as WPM Product Marketing ("PM") Platform Lead:

• Implement and coordinate the team's PM activities across products and regions to ensure consistency, high quality, and standard methodologies

• Explore improvements to the activity, with a focus on tools and automation

• Collaborate with Product Leads to ensure the PM activity is appropriate for products' specific marketing needs

• Collaborate with WPM Operations to develop and maintain the activity's operating procedures

• Collaborate on reporting of the activity

• Represent the team's PM activity both within the team and across the firm in relevant meetings, forums and information channels
  

Lead and maintain recurring evergreen PM collateral:

• Lead the recurring updates and changes to product pitchbooks, factsheets, and other product specific materials, as well as standard and cross-product or platform-level presentations

• Lead dataroom management

• Lead the database of Evergreen slides in the slide management tool

• Lead the products' external webpages

• Collaborate with Product Leads to address feedback from Sales teams and Management, and continuously enhance materials

• Collaborate on the management and maintenance of product marketing collateral across products and regions
  

Support development of new and custom evergreen marketing collateral:

• Implement and oversee WPM's custom presentation activity

• Collaborate with other team members and functional teams on the development of evergreen platform-level marketing materials and messaging

• Collaborate on the fulfilment of product-specific custom presentations requests

• Collaborate on the development of topical presentations for internal and external events, as well as educational materials and insights presentations

• Collaborate on the development of new standard and client-specific marketing collateral for new product launches
  

WPM team-wide activities:

• Drive the adoption of consistent brand and style guidelines across the team's deliverables

• Collaborate with other WPM team members in developing visuals to enhance written content in applications such as RFPs, Standard DDQs, written insights and publications

• Support the development and maintenance of team and new-joiner training materials

• Overall support and collaboration on additional projects to participate in the team's build-up and growth

What you bring:

• Experience and expertise in product marketing, particularly within financial services, private markets preferred

• Strong presentation building skills and ability to translate complex concepts into clear and impactful messaging and visuals

• Understanding and sensitivity to regulatory and compliance requirements surrounding marketing across regions

• Familiarity with slide management tools. Experience with Seismic a strong plus.

• Excellent project management skills and strong attention to detail

• Proactive, accountable, and with a solution-focused mentality

• Ability and adaptability to operate both independently and collaboratively within a fast-paced environment

• Comfortable in engaging with Senior-level professionals across various teams and functions in the organization and across seniorities

Experience and Education:

• 3-5 years of experience in financial product marketing, sales support, or equivalent experience in private markets. Evergreen fund experience and experience with private client distribution models an advantage.

• Native English language, additional languages a plus.

• BS/BA degree or equivalent.

HarbourVest is an independent, global private markets firm with over 43 years of experience and more than $138 billion assets under management as of September 30, 2024. Our interwoven platform provides clients access to global primary funds, secondary transactions, direct co-investments, real assets and infrastructure, and private credit. Our strengths extend across strategies, enabled by our team of more than 1,200 employees, including more than 230 investment professionals across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Across our private markets platform, our team has committed more than $59 billion to newly-formed funds, completed over $55 billion in secondary purchases, and invested over $40 billion in direct operating companies. We partner strategically and plan our offerings innovatively to provide our clients with access, insight, and global opportunities.