Associate/Senior Associate, Product Management & Investor Relations - Infrastructure & Real Assets
We are global private markets specialists delivering tailored investment solutions, advisory services, and impactful, data driven insights to the world’s investors. Leveraging the power of our platform and our peerless intelligence across sectors, strategies, and geographies, we help identify the advantages and the answers our clients need to succeed.
Position Overview
The Associate / Senior Associate will be an integral member of StepStone Infrastructure & Real Assets Product Management team. The role will support StepStone’s infrastructure and real assets platform investing in co-investment, secondary and primary infrastructure and real asset transactions globally. Responsibilities will consist of providing support to senior specialists for infrastructure and real asset products across the entire fund lifecycle from fund launches and capital formation to existing investor relations activities, including helping to create new content, responding to investor requests, and supporting investor roadshows/events. Periodic interactions with limited partners and potential investors may also be required.
Essential Job Functions:
- Maintain and implement client service protocols to provide a high quality, consistent investor experience, including the application of standardized best practices gleaned from across the platform
- Compile and write content for investor communications and drafting external and internal speaking points
- Create and maintain marketing materials including presentations, fact cards, PPMs, investor updates, and other documents related to private investment fundraises
- Prepare and manage existing and prospective investor requests, including responding to RFPs, DDQs, other due diligence requests, and providing updates; collaborate with internal groups for responses as needed and ensure answers to clients are accurate, consistent, and appropriate
- Build collaborative and productive relationship with multiple stakeholders, including but not limited to, Infrastructure and Real Assets investment professionals, Global Business Development team members, , Legal & Compliance, Finance and Accounting, and StepStone Portfolio Analytics and Reporting team to execute on investor relations processes and fundraising strategy
- Understand and analyze infrastructure industry trends and conduct asset industry research
- Coordination and logistics of client events, onsite meetings, webinar events, investor conferences
- Coordinate with technology to enforce internal efficiencies
- Help support and execute on key initiatives as needed
Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree required in finance, accounting, economics or business preferred
- 5 or more years of infrastructure and real assets or financial services experience is required
- Investor relations, analytical, and presentation experience strongly preferred
- Experience at a private markets asset manager, a private markets placement firm, a financial services or investment bank is preferred
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strong sense of ethics and integrity with demonstrated ability to behave consistently with StepStone’s expressed values and principles
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a team with collegiality and a high level of professionalism
- Excellent technical skills, including ability to learn and become the subject matter expert in the products to respond to investor requests
At StepStone, we believe that our people are our most important asset and crucial to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that strives to create an environment that empowers our employees and allows them to be heard, regardless of title or tenure. Our organizational community features multiple Employment Resource Groups as well as mentorship programs to enhance the employee experience for all.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, StepStone does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.
Candidates must be at least 18 years old to apply.