Technology Director, Private Equity

Technology Director, Private Equity

Location:

Boston, MA

With approximately $215 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, and Real Assets. Today, our team includes 1,985+ 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. Today, 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.

This position will be working within Bain Capital’s Private Markets and Corporate Technology team, which supports Private Equity, Growth & Venture, Real Assets and cross firm platform services areas. This role will work on systems and projects focused on supporting needs of global private equity business.

Leveraging both your business and technical knowledge, this individual will work closely with business stakeholders, vendors, application developers and QA specialists to provide solutions supporting our technology platforms for private equity deal, portfolio group, finance and investment operations.

This will include driving PE mandated projects as well as participating at various levels in other technology related initiatives, from strategic approach conception to new system development/integration to post implementation work. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, a sense of ownership, exceptional communication skills, and a deep understanding of private markets focused systems and processes.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone to use their knowledge to really make an impact across a wide spectrum of businesses and functions, and to gain exposure to key business leaders in a world class organization.

• Partner with business users to identify, evaluate, and deploy AI-enabled capabilities across GPE functions
• Stay at the forefront of rapidly evolving AI tooling — from LLM-based workflow automation to intelligent document processing and portfolio analytics — and bring a grounded, practical perspective on where AI creates genuine leverage.
• Build expertise in prompt engineering and working with AI APIs and/or AI development tools such as Claude code / Cursor, and champion training and adoption across investment and technology organizations.
• Drive proof-of-concept work and lead the transition from experimentation to production deployment.

• Lead requirements gathering, documentation, and testing of solutions supporting global private equity business needs.
• Translate complex business requirements into actionable technical specifications.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes and enhance system functionality.
• Oversee applications supporting the PE business including deal management, fund management, accounting, portfolio reporting.

• Partner with deal, portfolio , Finance and operations teams to align technology solutions with business goals.
• Compile and communicate release notes, roadmaps, and project updates for stakeholders.
• Serve as a trusted advisor, balancing business priorities with IT objectives.

• Help Manage application support vendors and third-party system providers.
• Ensure…