Vice President

Adams Street Partners (“Adams Street”) is a global private markets investment manager that has $65 billion in assets under management. The firm is 100% employee-owned, which fosters a positive and unique culture of collaboration, intellectual rigor, integrity, and a commitment to professional development. For the eighth year in a row, Adams Street was named one of Pension & Investments’ Best Places to Work in Money Management in 2025.

Employees operate as a single global team, integrating the expertise of the firm’s investment professionals across five strategies: primary investments, secondary investments, growth equity, private credit, and co-investments. Adams Street is considered a private markets pioneer and was inducted into the Private Equity Hall of Fame in 2000.

The firm was founded more than 50 years ago, and clients include leading public and corporate pension plans, foundations, endowments, insurance companies, registered investment advisors, and high net worth individuals worldwide.

Adams Street has offices in Abu Dhabi, Austin, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Munich, Menlo Park, New York, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto.

Overview This position offers an excellent opportunity for an Investment Professional with proven financial, analytical and interpersonal skills and an interest in the alternative investment sector, to be part of a premier global investment firm that provides investment services to institutional clients. The individual selected for this position will be based in the firm’s Menlo Park, CA offices. They will be a part of a team managing a large portfolio of venture capital and buyout funds (limited partnerships) and will be responsible for supporting the team’s identification and management of a global portfolio of venture managers. In addition, this individual will work on due diligence for co-investments into category-leading growth-stage companies and venture capital secondaries. Specifically, the individual will be involved with and responsible for:

Sourcing & Evaluation

• Meet with general partner groups to evaluate potential investment opportunities.
• Manage deal flow across global venture capital and buyout portfolio with a focus on venture capital funds.
• Conduct market research on investment sectors and themes.

Execution & Due Diligence

• Lead and conduct due diligence; identify key investment merits and considerations through qualitative and quantitative analysis, meetings with fund managers, strategy review, reference checks and on-site visits, etc.
• Perform due diligence on growth-stage co- investments.
• Prepare memoranda and participate in investment discussions with internal investment committee.
• Work with counsel to n...