Associate, Product Manager

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

Hamilton Lane is seeking an Associate Product Manager to join the Innovation Team and help shape the firm’s technology roadmap across Operations and other internal functions. Reporting to the Co-Head of Product, this role will partner with business leaders—primarily across Operations—to identify technology needs, define practical solutions, and improve how work gets done.

The Associate Product Manager will serve as a product owner and strategic partner from discovery through implementation and go-live. The role will partner with team leaders to evaluate buy-versus-build options, align stakeholders, shape roadmaps, coordinate delivery, champion adoption, and own the ongoing performance of assigned platforms and internally built applications.

Initial priorities will include partnering with HR and Finance leaders to develop and champion a Workday roadmap, serving as Product Manager for internally built applications, and scoping and prioritizing technology needs across HL Operations over one-year and three-year planning horizons.

Your responsibilities will be to

Build trusted partnerships with Operations, HR, and Finance leaders and subject-matter experts to understand business objectives, process challenges, user needs, and desired outcomes.

Translate business needs into product opportunities, requirements, success measures, prioritized backlogs, and multi-year roadmaps for assigned platforms, applications, and capabilities.

Prioritize initiatives and prepare recommendations for leadership and governance forums based on value, user impact, complexity, risk, cost, dependencies, and readiness.

Lead buy-versus-build evaluations, including vendor discussions, demonstrations, proofs of concept, and analysis of requirements, integrations, scalability, security, data, total cost of ownership, and time to value.

Serve as the accountable Product Manager and product owner for internally built applications and assigned enterprise platforms, maintaining knowledge of capabilities, integrations, data flows, controls, and key user groups.

Guide products from concept through design, development or configuration, testing, implementation, go-live, and post-launch improvement while managing scope, milestones, acceptance criteria, dependencies, risks, and decisions.

Coordinate cross-functional delivery, user acceptance testing, readiness, training, communications, change management, and control-function engagement; monitor product health, adoption, service quality, user satisfaction, and business outcomes.

Your background will include

Must-haves:

Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, information technology, analytics, or a related field, with 3–5 years of relevant product, business analysis, transformation, or implementation experience.

Proven ability to translate business needs into clear requirements, roadmaps, prioritized backlogs, and executable delivery plans.

Demonstrated ownership of cross-functional initiatives from discovery through implementation, go-live, adoption, and continuous improvement.

Experience evaluating solution alternatives—including buy-versus-build decisions—and presenting practical recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Strong communication, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, including experience with UAT, process documentation, training, change management, dependencies, and competing priorities.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in financial services or another regulated, operationally complex environment.
• Experience with Workday, particularly HCM and/or Financial Management.

Experience managing internally built applications or serving as product owner for enterprise platforms.

Familiarity with integrations, data migration, workflow automation, and configurable technology solutions.

Experience developing multi-year technology roadmaps, business cases, or investment recommendations.

Travel Requirements

Minimal travel outside of attending some conferences on occasion as needed.

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 an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other classification prohibited by applicable law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please contact Human Resources at humanresources@hamiltonlane.com.

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.