Vice President, Product Specialist, AlpInvest Investor Relations

Carlyle's Global Investment Solutions (GIS), also known as AlpInvest, helps investors meet their objectives through tailored portfolio construction and rigorous investment selection. AlpInvest currently manages $77 billion of AUM across private equity and credit investments, and is a leading investor across the Secondary, Co‑Investment, NAV / Fund finance, and Primary Fund markets. The segment has approximately 200 employees based in New York, London, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.

The AlpInvest Investor Relations (IR) team is responsible for IR‑related activities across the segment, as well as new business development and fundraising activities across both its flagship fund products, as well as multi‑strategy solutions for both institutional and private wealth client bases.

Carlyle seeks to hire a Vice President Product Specialist within AlpInvest's Investor Relations Team, supporting its Wealth platform and offerings to international investors. The Wealth Product Specialist plays a critical role in supporting the private wealth and alternative investment business by covering the entire product lifecycle—from fundraising, through investment, to return of capital. They act as the subject matter expert providing detailed investment information, market insights, performance updates, and education to client stakeholders including financial advisors, sales teams, and end‑clients. This role requires deep knowledge of alternative asset classes such as private equity, credit, real assets, and secondaries.

The Vice President will play a key role in supporting the growing Private Wealth strategies across the AlpInvest Secondary Platform, but will also have the opportunity to work across AlpInvest's other product lines of Co‑Investment, Portfolio Finance and Primary Investments, and be responsible for supporting AlpInvest's fundraising efforts across Private Wealth channels. The position will provide key support to the senior team members of AlpInvest IR and Private wealth teams to drive strategic initiatives across the segment, and will have an active role in coordinating investor requests/responses, serving as a segment expert to other parts of Carlyle and the Firm's Sales professionals. The role will include interaction with existing limited partners and investors. The successful candidate must be able to build expertise in the key strategies which AlpInvest operates, prioritize multiple projects and work under pressure in a deadline‑oriented environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with internal investment teams and sales professionals to develop and execute sales and marketing strategies around private equity products.
• Provide ongoing, real‑time updates on product performance, market trends, and the competitive landscape to advisors, clients, and internal stakeholders.
• Create tailored, high‑impact content such as fund reviews, investment themes, and portfolio performance commentary.
• Respond to client and advisor inquiries on private equity strategies and underlying markets.
• Support sales meetings and presentations with investment insights and portfolio updates.
• Collaborate with marketing, investor services, product strategy, and business development teams to support product initiatives.
• Conduct competitive research across alternative asset classes and product structures to maintain market awareness.
• Draft and position marketing materials for AlpInvest funds and new product initiatives.
• Support development of due diligence materials and legal documentation.
• Assist segment leadership with new product and strategy initiatives, and presentations to Firm leadership.
• Work with senior leadership to support key presentations internally and externally.
• Serve as internal expert on AlpInvest products to support the global Sales team.

Qualifications

• Education attention to detail.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Flexibility to handle multiple tasks and changing priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a team.

Position‑specific Technical Requirements

• Advanced Microsoft Office (including Excel and PowerPoint) skills required.
• CRM system including DealCloud is preferred.

The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with $465 billion of assets under management and more than half of the AUM managed by women, across 652 investment vehicles as of June 30, 2025. Founded in 1987 in Washington, DC, Carlyle has grown into one of the world's largest and most successful investment firms, with more than 2,300 professionals operating in 27 offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. Carlyle places an emphasis on development, retention and inclusion through internal processes and seven Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). Carlyle invests across three segments – Global Private Equity, Global Credit and Carlyle AlpInvest – and has expertise in a broad range of industries.

Job Details

• Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type: Full‑time
• Job function: Finance