Summer Vice President, Real Estate

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With approximately $185 billion of assets under management, Bain Capital is one of the world’s 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 & Capital Markets, and Real Assets. Today, our team includes 1,990+ employees in 24 offices on four continents.

We partner differently to help people and companies embrace possibility and realize potential. Founded as a private partnership in 1984, we have fostered a culture of innovation, entrepreneurialism, and agility, empowering our people to define and own their career trajectories. Our partnership approach enables us to pursue strategic growth, build enduring relationships with a robust external network, and collaborate across our integrated platform to connect the deep and diverse expertise that unlocks breakthrough insights.

Our people are the heart of our advantage. Colleagues at all levels have a seat at the table as they tackle business challenges with a principal investor mindset. By asking incisive questions, respectfully challenging one another, and remaining intellectually agile, we work together to achieve exceptional outcomes.

Since 2010, senior members of the Bain Capital Real Estate (“BCRE”) team have refined a thematic and nimble business model, focused on thesis-driven and resilient portfolio construction, designed to capture long-term demand growth and changing customer needs and preferences for real estate. Our team, led by Ryan Cotton, Partner, and comprising over 100 dedicated professionals, has captured market opportunities  date, our strategy has been utilized for the acquisition of over 675 assets with total equity commitments of $10.4 billion, including acquisitions across BCRE Fund I (1.5 billion, 2018 vintage), BCRE Fund II (3.0 billion, 2020 vintage), the BCRE Life Science Fund (~800 million, 2021 vintage), and BCRE Fund III (raising, 2023 vintage) value add-plus real estate funds focused predominantly on thematic investments in North America.

The team draws upon complementary expertise and experience to source opportunities, drive value, and mitigate risk. As part of Bain Capital, the real estate team leverages the collective scale, experience, and network of the firm’s global platform to augment sourcing efforts and deepen insights into the underlying secular themes driving demand and changing customer needs and desires across sectors germane to its current portfolio as well as future investment themes.

The Summer VP role is a 10-week Boston-based opportunity. The Real Estate Summer VP is uniquely positioned to join a small and passionate investment team and play an active role in every aspect of the business. This role includes partnering with experienced private equity and real estate investment professionals to drive financial value throughout our investment processes and ownership periods. The Summer Vice President experience will be characterized by significant deal responsibilities, broad exposure to all aspects of the real estate transaction process, and substantial direct interaction with senior investment partners and Joint Venture executives.

He/she will play a key role in evaluating investment opportunities, helping to drive our investment decision process, and working with our assets to drive value creation. The Summer VP will learn how to evaluate investment opportunities through the application of fundamental strategic analysis. Bain Capital professionals are exposed to a broad set of real estate sectors and strategies, and systematically develop skills as a value-added investor—not just a financial engineer.

• Candidates must be in their first year of an MBA program with targeted completion in spring 2027 and have an excellent academic track record. A very strong preference will be given to candidates with a minimum of 3–4…