Associate Product Manager, Private Markets
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- New York, New York, United States
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Junior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Product
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Demonstrated understanding of investment fund structures, including how funds are created, regulated, distributed, and administered. Familiarity with transfer agents, custodians, fund administrators,
- Hands-on understanding of private markets fund mechanics: how drawdown funds take commitments and call and deploy capital, how evergreen funds handle subscriptions, redemptions, and liquidity, how reg
- Experience coordinating complex, multi-stakeholder workstreams with competing timelines. This is a high-coordination role; organizational rigor matters as much as subject matter knowledge.
- Clear written and verbal communication. A significant portion of this role involves preparing documents for internal and external audiences, including senior leadership, partners, and regulators.
- Comfort with ambiguity. Many of the products and structures this role will touch are relatively new to the registered fund market. There is no playbook for most of it.
- Ability to work in office a minimum of 4 days per week.
Full description
Title: Associate Product Manager, Private Markets
Department: Product Manager
Reporting to: VP, Director of Product Management
Location: New York, NY
Summary: VanEck is a privately held global asset management firm founded in 1955. We develop forward-looking, intelligently designed active and ETF strategies that strengthen long-term portfolios. VanEck is building a growing platform of private markets fund products focused on the late-stage private growth segment of the market. The pipeline spans private drawdown funds, evergreen private funds, and registered evergreen funds—including interval and tender offer structures—that give investors access to late-stage, pre-IPO growth companies. The work also includes distribution partnerships, sponsor and general partner relationships, and products co-developed with external managers. The team is small and the pace is fast. Everyone executes.
This is a financial product management role focused on product development, positioning, and commercialization—not a technology product role. The right candidate will help bring new fund products from initial market research and concept development through launch and distribution. They will work closely with Investments, Sales, Marketing, Legal, Compliance, Operations, and Technology to shape product strategy, develop positioning and client materials, coordinate launch readiness, and keep complex workstreams moving in parallel. They will spend as much time analyzing the market, supporting distribution, and working across teams as they will thinking about product strategy.
What makes this role unusual is the requirement to operate fluently in two worlds: traditional registered asset management, with its fund structures, transfer agents, custodians, fund administrators, regulatory filings, and compliance workflows; and private markets investing, with its capital call and drawdown mechanics, semi-liquid evergreen structures, general partner and sponsor relationships, and the operational realities of holding illiquid, privately held assets inside a fund wrapper. Just as importantly, the candidate must be able to translate complex investment strategies and fund structures into clear, compelling positioning for sales teams, clients, and distribution partners. Candidates who have only lived in one of these worlds will need to come up to speed quickly in the other. The ideal candidate has worked in both.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Includes the following; other duties may be assigned as needed:
Product Launch Execution
- Own the end-to-end coordination of new private fund launches — drawdown, evergreen, and registered evergreen — from initial scoping through live distribution, including workstream tracking, stakeholder alignment, and issue resolution.