Data Governance Manager - Private Equity
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BAIN CAPITAL OVERVIEW 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. For more information visit: Bain Capital BAIN CAPITAL PRIVATE EQUITY OVERVIEW Bain Capital Partners is the private equity affiliate of Bain Capital. Over the past 31 years, The Private Equity Group has made over 280 investments and has 15 active global buyout funds. Our private equity activity primarily includes leveraged buyouts and growth capital invested across a wide variety of sectors. Bain Capital has found that a combination of a strong management team, sound fundamental business analysis, and a focused strategy can substantially improve a company's income as well as its long-term strategic value. Bain Capital Partners seeks opportunities to invest in market leading companies poised for dynamic change and to back outstanding management teams to implement that change. We believe the most critical ingredients in a company's success are the management team and the alignment of management incentives with those of the investors. Our portfolio companies have significant management-equity ownership as a key part of the investment strategy. Bain Capital professionals are significant investors in each transaction, which achieves an alignment of goals with portfolio company management teams. The group has developed significant expertise in several business areas including technology, healthcare, retail, telecommunications, and industrial and consumer products. Transaction types include leveraged acquisitions, expansion capital, growth buyouts, turnarounds, consolidation plays, private buyouts, public company recapitalizations, convertible preferred investments, and financial restructurings. PRIVATE EQUITY DATA GOVERNANCE - MANAGER The successful candidate will join Bain Capital's Private Equity Data Governance function as a Manager, reporting to the Private Equity Data Governance Lead within the CFO organization. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and sustaining a comprehensive suite of data governance capabilities, including data quality management, metadata and catalog governance, regulatory and audit-ready data controls, AI-readiness frameworks, and health metrics reporting. Grounded in established industry frameworks and enterprise-aligned standards, these capabilities enable accurate, transparent, and scalable data infrastructure across a large and complex investment platform. This role partners across enterprise-aligned functions including Finance, Analytics, Investment Operations, Investor Relations, Compliance and Information Technology. This is a high-impact role for a practitioner who can operate with technical rigor and strategic depth across a sophisticated, multi-strategy investment platform. Key responsibilities are to: - Develop and maintain enterprise-aligned data governance frameworks, including data quality standards, metadata and catalog governance, and regulatory and audit-ready data controls, in alignment with broader organizational governance programs - Support the definition and governance of data architecture across the private equity platform, partnering with key business stakeholders to implement data strategies across source systems (including deal pipeline, accounting, portfolio monitoring, valuation models) and data lake access layers - Drive data quality management and issue resolution, building reasonability tests and automated alerts, root-causing data issues, and designing remediation controls and process redesigns to prevent recurrence - Administer and advance the data catalog and metadata framework, documenting key data terms, processes, and protocols to create transparency, foster appropriate data use, and support data lineage from collection thr
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