Vice President, Evergreen Valuations

HarbourVest Partners • Boston, MA

9d • $215,000 - $225,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

HarbourVest Partners is seeking a Vice President, Evergreen Valuation to lead the strategy, roadmap, delivery, and ongoing performance of the technology, data, analytics, and control capabilities supporting its Evergreen offerings. The role will establish scalable, resilient valuation infrastructure; develop governed gold-copy data; automate workflows and controls; and provide analytics to improve valuation attribution, back-testing, oversight, and decision-making.

The Vice President will work closely with Fund Accounting, Investment Management, Product Development, IT, Information, Risk Management, auditors, third-party providers, and external valuation specialists. The successful candidate will combine private-markets valuation expertise and sound valuation judgment with product ownership, program execution, data governance, control design, fund operations, and technology-enabled transformation.

This position uses a hybrid work arrangement, with 18 remote workdays per quarter available at the employee’s discretion, subject to manager approval. The base salary range is $215,000–$225,000, and the role is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus. Total compensation may also include long-term reward programs for typically more senior-level roles. The company offers a comprehensive total rewards package that may include retirement contributions, health insurance, income protection, paid time off and leave benefits, and well-being programs; eligibility varies by position and geography.

Requirements

• 10 or more years of demonstrated experience in private markets, investment management, valuation, fund accounting, financial technology, data management, or technology-enabled transformation.
• Substantial private-asset valuation experience and a strong understanding of fair value concepts, valuation methodologies, fund structures, and period-end NAV processes.
• Demonstrated success designing or implementing enterprise-grade platforms, governed data environments, automated workflows, and financial control frameworks.
• Experience with data architecture, data quality, lineage, reconciliations, analytics, dashboards, and system integrations.
• Experience applying AI or machine-learning capabilities in a controlled business environment, including use-case governance, testing, monitoring, and exception management.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional programs, influence senior team members, manage vendors, and deliver sustainable change in a sophisticated global organization.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, information systems, computer science, data analytics, engineering, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with cloud, workflow, and business-intelligence platforms.
• Understanding of US GAAP and/or IFRS and regulated or registered investment-company environments.
• Advanced degree, CPA, CFA, or relevant technology or data certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, delivery, and ongoing performance of technology, data, analytics, and control capabilities supporting Evergreen valuation.
• Build and operate a resilient, scalable, well-controlled ecosystem for daily, monthly, and quarterly valuation activities, from data ingestion and calculation through review, approval, reporting, and audit support.
• Define and implement a multi-year architecture and product roadmap, including core platforms and upstream and downstream integrations.
• Establish authoritative gold-copy datasets for portfolio, fund, market, accounting, and valuation information, with defined ownership, lineage, quality standards, and change governance.
• Automate data ingestion, validation, reconciliation, calculation, workflow, approval, and evidence retention.
• Design AI-enabled controls and exception monitoring, with defined use cases, validation, performance monitoring, and human review.
• Implement dashboards and management reporting for data quality, workflow status, valuation exceptions, control performance, and service levels.
• Embed information security, access management, business continuity, auditability, records retention, and regulatory requirements in the environment.
• Develop analytics to explain valuation movements and attribute changes to market, company-specific, methodology, foreign exchange, cash-flow, and other relevant drivers.
• Build a framework for systematic back-testing of valuation assumptions and conclusions against later transactions, realizations, and other observable outcomes.
• Partner with valuation teams to standardize data requirements, methodologies, workflow stages, review protocols, and control evidence across Evergreen products.
• Serve as product owner for Evergreen valuation technology by setting priorities, defining requirements, coordinating delivery and testing, and driving adoption.
• Lead vendors, data providers, and implementation partners, including service levels, issue resolution, control assurance, and roadmap alignment.
• Establish and use metrics for cycle time, data quality, exception rates, control effectiveness, adoption, and automation benefits to drive continuous improvement.
• Provide reporting and insights to the Valuation Committee, fund boards, senior management, auditors, and control partners.
• Lead cross-functional programs, influence senior team members, manage vendors, and deliver sustainable change.

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus based on individual and overall firm performance.
• Potential participation in long-term reward programs, typically for more senior-level roles.
• Retirement contributions may be included in the total rewards package.
• Health insurance may be included in the total rewards package.
• Income protection may be included in the total rewards package.
• Paid time off and leave benefits may be included in the total rewards package.
• Well-being programs may be included in the total rewards package.
• Hybrid work arrangement with 18 remote workdays per quarter, subject to manager approval.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior