Senior Associate, Portfolio Talent Solutions
General Atlantic is a global investment leader founded in 1980, serving as a dedicated partner for entrepreneurs and investors building long-term value. The firm identifies talent and technologies with great potential, empowering innovators with patient capital, operational expertise, and a global platform to scale their businesses.
About General Atlantic
General Atlantic operates as one global platform fueling innovation across multiple investment strategies, including Growth Equity, Credit, Energy Transition, and Infrastructure. Through Growth Equity, the firm accelerates category-leading companies by providing strategic counsel and value-add capabilities. Its Credit strategy delivers strategic capital solutions to high-quality businesses at key phases of their lifecycles. The Energy Transition strategy identifies and scales growth companies with net zero solutions, while its Infrastructure strategy, through Actis, invests in long-term equitable growth in critical infrastructure across energy transition, digitization, and supply chain transformation. General Atlantic manages $126B in assets under management and has invested $121B in total capital since inception, with a presence across 21 global locations serving entrepreneurs and growth-stage companies worldwide.
Skills
About the Role
You will support and project manage C-suite search assignments in close partnership with GA's portfolio talent team, portfolio company management teams, and GA investment professionals. Where appropriate, you will independently run searches for portfolio companies, including identifying, sourcing, and qualifying senior executives. You'll help scope senior roles, develop position specifications, and research new industries, market segments, and competitive landscapes to map talent ecosystems. Using a pre-defined spec, you will build a research strategy that outlines targeted industries and companies, and you'll become an expert on the markets and talent pools you research. You will proactively engage, assess, and introduce qualified executives to GA investment professionals and portfolio companies, while building an evolving external network of potential future talent. You'll also support quantitative and qualitative management assessments to identify capability gaps and learning opportunities, identify chances to syndicate processes across the portfolio for shared best practices and cost synergies, and leverage global tools such as scorecards, interview guides, and competency models. When external search firms are engaged, you will coordinate the search process, including firm screening, spec and scorecard development, preliminary interviews, and collating candidate feedback.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required
- 4-6 years of relevant experience; background in executive search, a high growth company or chief of staff role preferred
- Experience working in a leading executive search firm, preferably with exposure to services or consumer sectors
- Experience supporting search engagements or talent projects, including producing clear deliverables
- Experience engaging with external clients and candidates in the market
- Strong project management skills able to manage multiple workstreams and align stakeholders
- Analytical and intellectually curious with strong intuition and good judgment
- Proficiency with AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT
- Strong attention to detail and exceptional follow through
- Ability to work independently and proactively in a global organization
- Demonstrated maturity and professional presence with senior stakeholders
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Responsibilities
- Support and project manage C-suite search assignments in partnership with GA PHC, portfolio company management teams and GA investment professionals
- Independently run searches for portfolio companies including identifying, sourcing and qualifying senior executives
- Support the scoping of senior roles and development of position specifications
- Research new industries, market segments and competitive landscapes to map the talent ecosystem
- Develop a research strategy that outlines targeted industries and companies based on a pre-defined spec
- Serve as an expert to the team on the markets and talent pools researched
- Proactively engage, assess and introduce qualified executives to GA investment professionals and portfolio companies
- Build an evolving external network focused on potential future talent for current and future portfolio initiatives
- Support quantitative and qualitative management assessments to identify capability gaps and learning opportunities
- Identify opportunities for syndicating processes across the portfolio to enable sharing of best practices and cost synergy
- Leverage and utilize global tools and capabilities such as scorecards, interview guides and competency models
- Coordinate with GA operating professionals on search processes run by external search firms including screening, spec and scorecard development, preliminary interviews and feedback collation
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans
- Retirement savings plan with employer matching