Senior Associate, Strategic Partner Group

About the role

Join Hamilton Lane, a global leader in private markets, as we scale to meet the demands of our growing client base. Here, you'll work with ambitious, high-performing teams built on integrity, candor and collaboration, backed by our market-leading data and technology. We invest heavily in our people and our partners, giving you the platform to enrich lives, safeguard futures and grow your career.

What We Do

As one of the largest private markets investment firms globally, we provide innovative solutions to institutional and private wealth investors around the world, specializing in flexibility and full-spectrum access. We currently employ approximately 800 professionals operating in offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East, and have $1.0 trillion in assets under management and supervision, composed of $146.1 billion in discretionary assets and $871.5 billion in non-discretionary assets, as of December 31, 2025.

The Opportunity

As the primary execution partner to the Head of the Strategic Partner Group, you will work directly on the priorities that shape how Hamilton Lane operates globally - organizational design, governance and decision rights, operating model, and the major cross-firm initiatives that define the firm's next phase of growth.

The work offers the pace, variety, and intellectual range of top-tier management consulting, with one meaningful advantage: you stay to see it through. Instead of handing off a recommendation at the close of a project, you build the plans, cadences, and follow-through that turn strategy into results you can point to - working shoulder to shoulder with the leaders making the decisions.

Expect a rotating portfolio of three to five concurrent initiatives, exposure across every business line, region, and function, and a front-row view of how a global private markets firm actually runs. Scope will shift as firm priorities shift. For the right person, that variability is the best part of the job: unusually broad access, a steep learning curve, and visible impact from the first initiative forward.

Responsibilities

• Report to the Head of SPG and serve as their primary execution partner across a portfolio of approximately 3-5 concurrent, high-priority initiatives at any given time.
• Structure ambiguous, cross-functional problems into clear workplans, milestones, owners, and decision points - often before full clarity exists on the end state.
• Build and run the operating machinery behind each initiative: integrated project plans, meeting cadences, governance forums, trackers, and dashboards that keep work visible and on track.
• Partner with stakeholders across business lines, regions, and functions to gather input, pressure-test recommendations, and drive alignment on org design, operating model, and process-improvement efforts.
• Track commitments and action items with disciplined follow-up; surface blockers, competing priorities, and tradeoffs that require executive decision-making.
• Support change-adoption work by documenting new processes and structures and confirming that affected teams are actually using them, not just that they were announced.
• Move fluidly between initiatives as firm priorities shift, typically supporting a mix of work at any given time.
• Prepare clear, concise updates and materials for senior leadership and executive sponsors.

Qualifications

• Experience in program/project management, management consulting, organizational change management, or another cross-functional execution role.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively with incomplete information and shifting scope.
• Strong organizational and follow-through discipline; able to build and maintain project plans, trackers, and governance cadences with minimal oversight.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with Six Sigma or Lean Six Sigma a plus.
• Sound judgment on when to escalate versus resolve independently.
• Bachelor's degree and several years of relevant experience in program/project management, consulting, or a similar cross-functional role.

Benefits

At Hamilton Lane, our benefits philosophy is simple:

to provide our employees with a competitive suite of benefits and services to help navigate through the complexities and challenges of working, living, raising a family, and eventually retiring. To do this, Hamilton Lane offers the following benefits:

Enhancing Your Physical and Emotional Health

Employees have access to healthcare coverage, mental health resources, health & fitness reimbursement program, and Wellness Rewards Program.

Developing Your Career

Tuition and certification reimbursement programs are available, along with continual education and development trainings for you to grow with Hamilton Lane.

Supporting Your Family & Community

• For our communities, Hamilton Lane provides paid time off to volunteer and compensates for referring qualified candidates that join our team.
• For growing family, we offer an adoption reimbursement program, paid time off for new parents and newlyweds, and provide travel support for nursing parents.

Safeguarding Your Financial Wellbeing

Hamilton Lane contributes to retirement programs and offers an employee stock purchasing plan.

Hamilton Lane is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Hamilton Lane via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Hamilton Lane. No fee shall be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Hamilton Lane as a result of the referral or through other means.