Data Governance Manager Private Equity

BAIN CAPITAL OVERVIEW

With approximately $215 billion of assets under management Bain Capital is one of the worlds leading private investment firms. We create lasting impact for our investors teams businesses and the communities in which we live. Over four decades we have strategically grown our platform to focus on Private Equity Growth & Venture Capital Solutions Credit and Real Assets. Today our team includes 1985 employees in 24 offices on four continents.

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BAIN CAPITAL PRIVATE EQUITY OVERVIEW

Bain Capital Partners is the private equity affiliate of Bain Capital. Over the past 31 years The Private Equity Group has made over 280 investments and has 15 active global buyout funds. Our private equity activity primarily includes leveraged buyouts and growth capital invested across a wide variety of sectors. Bain Capital has found that a combination of a strong management team sound fundamental business analysis and a focused strategy can substantially improve a companys income as well as its long-term strategic value.

Bain Capital Partners seeks opportunities to invest in market leading companies poised for dynamic change and to back outstanding management teams to implement that change. We believe the most critical ingredients in a companys success are the management team and the alignment of management incentives with those of the investors. Our portfolio companies have significant management-equity ownership as a key part of the investment strategy. Bain Capital professionals are significant investors in each transaction which achieves an alignment of goals with portfolio company management teams.

The group has developed significant expertise in several business areas including technology healthcare retail telecommunications and industrial and consumer products. Transaction types include leveraged acquisitions expansion capital growth buyouts turnarounds consolidation plays private buyouts public company recapitalizations convertible preferred investments and financial restructurings.

PRIVATE EQUITY DATA GOVERNANCE MANAGER

The successful candidate will join Bain Capitals Private Equity Data Governance function as a Manager reporting to the Private Equity Data Governance Lead within the CFO organization. This role is responsible for designing implementing and sustaining a comprehensive suite of data governance capabilities including data quality management metadata and catalog governance regulatory and audit-ready data controls AI-readiness frameworks and health metrics reporting. Grounded in established industry frameworks and enterprise-aligned standards these capabilities enable accurate transparent and scalable data infrastructure across a large and complex investment platform. This role partners across enterprise-aligned functions including Finance Analytics Investment Operations Investor Relations Compliance and Information Technology. This is a high-impact role for a practitioner who can operate with technical rigor and strategic depth across a sophisticated multi-strategy investment platform.

Key responsibilities are to:

Develop and maintain enterprise-aligned data governance frameworks including data quality standards metadata and catalog governance and regulatory and audit-ready data controls in alignment with broader organizational governance programs

Support the definition and governance of data architecture across the private equity platform partnering with key business stakeholders to implement data strategies across source systems (including deal pipeline accounting portfolio monitoring valuation models) and data lake access layers

Drive data quality management and issue resolution building reasonability tests and automated alerts root-causing data issues and designing remediation controls and process redesigns to prevent recurrence

Administer and advance the data catalog and metadata framework documenting key data terms processes and protocols to create transparency foster appropriate data use and support data lineage from collection through end-user reporting

Drive AI-readiness and agentic governance design identifying opportunities to deploy AI-assisted workflows automated monitoring and large language model-enabled data operations to modernize how governance is implemented and maintained at scale

Enable automated reporting and visualization ensuring data architecture supports accurate flexible reporting through tools such as Power BI and approved AI/reporting tools across investor and internal management reporting

Develop and track data health KPIs and metrics establishing governance scorecards that measure data quality process compliance and reporting accuracy across the private equity platform

Serve as a cross-functional governance partner to Investment and Trade Operations Finance Data Analytics & Reporting Portfolio Management Investor Relations and Information Technology collaborating across peer data governance programs within the organization

The primary measures of success in this role are:

Reduction in data friction across the private equity platform including improvements in data availability timing and accessibility for downstream reporting and analytics

Measurable progress in process automation and the elimination of manual error-prone workflows across data production and reporting cycles

Tangible adoption of AI tools and agentic workflows within governance processes with demonstrated efficiency gains

QUALIFICATIONS

Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills with a demonstrated ability to build credibility and collaborate across functions including Finance Operations Investment Management and Technology

Strong process discipline with the ability to design new processes and improve existing ones

A self-starter with a deadline-driven mindset and the ability to manage competing priorities in a data-intensive fast-moving investment environment

A strong understanding of private equity as an asset class is a plus

Proven experience in a data governance capacity ideally within asset management or financial services; candidates with a primary background in data governance are strongly preferred over those coming from generalist Finance or Operations roles

Curiosity and comfort with AI-assisted development including experimentation with AI coding tools and agentic workflow design; hands-on exploration of these tools even outside formal work contexts is a strong plus

8 years of experience in asset management or a closely related field with meaningful tenure in data governance data management or a related discipline

Why Join Us

At Bain Capital youll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a collaborative environment that values innovation and excellence. Youll be part of a high-performing team that leverages data to drive strategic decisions and investment insights across global markets.

Compensation:

Expected Annual Base Salary $

Actual base salary will be determined by a wide range of factors including but not limited to role function level experience qualifications and geographic addition to a competitive base salary this position may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus based upon factors such as individual impact team and firm performance. Bain Capital offers a competitive benefits package designed to support employees health financial security family needs and overall well-being.

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