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Private equity roles, tracked live.

The private equity landscape as a map rather than a list: who these firms are, what they buy, where they recruit, and which of them run a direct analyst or off-cycle route at all. Most of the industry still hires associates out of banking, so the open roles below are the narrow published part of a much larger market. Fund placement, transaction services and sponsor coverage seats are advisory work and are filed elsewhere.

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Statuses recomputed from deadlines on every view. Included: Buyout investing seats at firms investing their own funds; Growth equity and late-stage private investing; Secondaries and co-investment; Infrastructure and real-asset arms of private equity firms. Not included: firm-wide insight programmes that name no investing pathway; fund placement, capital advisory and fundraising mandates; transaction services and due diligence advisory.

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25 private equity firms on the map, 1 with a role open today. The category and focus of each is maintained by hand and reviewed; the counts are today’s. A firm with nothing open stays on the map, because the landscape does not change with the week.

  • Blackstone

    Large-cap buyout firms

    Alternative asset manager whose businesses include private equity, real estate, credit and insurance, infrastructure, growth, life sciences and Strategic Partners.

    • Buyout
    • Infrastructure
    • Secondaries
    • Growth equity
    • Technology and software
    3 openSee rolesKnow the firm

  • Advent International

    Large-cap buyout firms

    Buyout firm with sector teams in business and financial services, consumer, healthcare, industrial and technology, and offices across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia.

    • Buyout
    • Technology and software
    • Healthcare
    • Industrials
    • Business services
    0 openKnow the firm

  • Apollo Global Management

    Large-cap buyout firms

    Alternative asset manager describing itself as a capital provider, with strategies spanning equity and credit markets.

    • Buyout
    • Industrials
    • Financial services
    • Energy and transition
    0 openKnow the firm

  • Bain Capital

    Large-cap buyout firms

    Investment firm whose businesses are private equity, growth and venture capital, credit, real assets and solutions.

    • Buyout
    • Technology and software
    • Healthcare
    • Industrials
    0 openKnow the firm

  • Carlyle

    Large-cap buyout firms

    Listed manager whose private equity segment raises buyout, growth, real estate and infrastructure and natural resources funds, alongside a credit business and AlpInvest, which makes secondary, co-investment and primary fund investments.

    • Buyout
    • Growth equity
    • Infrastructure
    • Secondaries
    • Co-investment
    0 openKnow the firm

  • Cinven

    Large-cap buyout firms

    European buyout firm investing through its European funds and a Strategic Fund, organised around six sectors across seven offices.

    • Buyout
    • Healthcare
    • Technology and software
    • Business services
    • Financial services
    0 openKnow the firm

  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice

    Large-cap buyout firms

    Firm focused solely on private equity, investing through a single fund structure and often in partnership with existing owners, founders and families.

    • Buyout
    • Industrials
    • Business services
    • Healthcare
    • Consumer and retail
    0 openKnow the firm

  • CVC

    Large-cap buyout firms

    Global private markets manager focused on private equity, secondaries, credit and infrastructure, investing through seven strategies from a network of 30 local offices.

    • Buyout
    • Secondaries
    • Consumer and retail
    • Healthcare
    • Business services
    0 openKnow the firm

  • EQT

    Large-cap buyout firms

    Manager whose private capital business invests in healthcare, technology, industrial technology and services, from early-stage ventures to large-cap buyouts.

    • Buyout
    • Infrastructure
    • Technology and software
    • Healthcare
    • Industrials
    0 openKnow the firm

  • Hellman & Friedman

    Large-cap buyout firms

    Firm making a limited number of large-scale private equity investments in high quality, growing businesses in developed markets.

    • Buyout
    • Technology and software
    • Financial services
    • Healthcare
    • Consumer and retail
    0 openKnow the firm

  • KKR

    Large-cap buyout firms

    Global investment firm founded in 1976, delivering asset management, capital markets and insurance solutions, with private equity among its investment strategies.

    • Buyout
    • Infrastructure
    • Technology and software
    • Healthcare
    0 openKnow the firm

  • Permira

    Large-cap buyout firms

    Firm investing across two asset classes, private equity and credit, with portfolio sectors in technology, consumer, healthcare and services.

    • Buyout
    • Growth equity
    • Technology and software
    • Consumer and retail
    • Healthcare
    0 openKnow the firm

  • TPG

    Large-cap buyout firms

    Investment firm organised into platforms including capital, growth, impact, credit, real estate and market solutions.

    • Buyout
    • Growth equity
    • Technology and software
    • Healthcare
    • Consumer and retail
    0 openKnow the firm

  • Nordic Capital

    Mid-market buyout firms

    Private equity investor currently investing through Fund XI and its Evolution funds.

    • Buyout
    • Healthcare
    • Technology and software
    • Financial services
    0 openKnow the firm

  • General Atlantic

    Growth and late-stage investors

    Growth investor whose strategies are growth equity, credit, and energy transition infrastructure, across technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer and life sciences.

    • Growth equity
    • Technology and software
    • Healthcare
    • Financial services
    • Consumer and retail
    0 openKnow the firm

  • Warburg Pincus

    Growth and late-stage investors

    Growth investor with a sixty-year history of growth investing across sectors and regions.

    • Growth equity
    • Buyout
    • Technology and software
    • Healthcare
    • Financial services
    0 openKnow the firm

  • Hg

    Sector specialists

    Investor in European and transatlantic technology and services businesses that supply critical services to other businesses.

    • Technology and software
    • Business services
    0 openKnow the firm

  • Silver Lake

    Sector specialists

    Technology investment firm that partners with management teams to invest in, build and grow technology companies.

    • Buyout
    • Technology and software
    0 openKnow the firm

  • Thoma Bravo

    Sector specialists

    Software buyout firm investing in enterprise software since 2003, with a flagship fund, a mid-market platform, a lower-mid-market platform, a credit platform and a dedicated Europe fund.

    • Buyout
    • Technology and software
    0 openKnow the firm

  • Vista Equity Partners

    Sector specialists

    Enterprise software investor investing across the software lifecycle through equity and credit strategies.

    • Buyout
    • Technology and software
    0 openKnow the firm

  • Antin Infrastructure Partners

    Infrastructure and real assets

    Independent firm investing in infrastructure through its Flagship, Mid Cap and NextGen strategies.

    • Infrastructure
    • Energy and transition
    0 openKnow the firm

  • Brookfield

    Infrastructure and real assets

    Asset manager whose investment capabilities are infrastructure, energy, private equity, real estate and credit, alongside wealth solutions and retirement services.

    • Infrastructure
    • Energy and transition
    • Buyout
    0 openKnow the firm

  • Ardian

    Fund investors and secondaries

    Private markets firm whose private equity activities include secondaries, primaries, co-investment, buyout, expansion and growth, alongside real assets and credit businesses.

    • Secondaries
    • Co-investment
    • Buyout
    • Infrastructure
    0 openKnow the firm

  • HarbourVest Partners

    Fund investors and secondaries

    Independent global private markets firm investing across primary funds, secondaries, direct co-investments, infrastructure, real assets and private credit.

    • Secondaries
    • Co-investment
    0 openKnow the firm

  • PSP Investments

    Fund investors and secondaries

    Canadian public pension investment manager whose investment teams cover capital markets, real estate, private equity, infrastructure, credit investments and natural resources.

    • Buyout
    • Infrastructure
    0 openKnow the firm

Every live private equity role

4 roles

Ranked by what needs a decision first: deadlines this month, then confirmed windows, then the newly posted, then the rest. No firm takes more than three rows in a run, so one bank’s twenty postings do not bury the others.

Direct junior hiring in private equity is deliberately small. Analyst intakes open once a year at most, off-cycle seats appear irregularly, and the US on-cycle associate process runs through headhunters rather than postings. A short board is the market, not a gap in the sync.

UK and LondonUnited StatesEuropeOff-cycleSummer analystClosing this weekLarge-cap buyoutMid-marketInfrastructure

Firm categories and focus areas are maintained by L3VLUP editors against each firm’s own pages and filings, and were last reviewed on 24 September 2026. Role counts and locations come from each firm’s own careers feed at the last sync.

Action now

Deadlines in the next 7 days and windows opening in the next 14, from the same rows as the board below. Last verified 17 October 2026.

Nothing closes in the next 7 days.

Most rows on the board publish no closing date; the firm’s own page is the place to confirm one.

How this route works

Private equity hires far fewer juniors than banking and hires them differently. The classic route is still two years of investment banking followed by the associate recruiting cycle, but direct analyst programmes at the mega funds and a growing set of mid-market firms now take a small number of people straight from university, and those seats are among the most competitive in finance.

Because the seats are scarce, the windows matter even more than in banking. Direct analyst intakes open once a year at most, off-cycle internships appear irregularly and fill fast, and the US on-cycle associate process famously compresses from first call to exploding offer in days. What is tracked here is the part with published windows; the untracked part runs on headhunters and networks.

Preparation is also different in kind. Banking screens on motivation and mechanics at entry; PE screens on judgement from the first interview, usually through a paper LBO, a modelling test and an investment discussion where you are expected to have a view. The kit below is ordered accordingly.

Prepare for these seats

A deadline is only useful with an application ready behind it. The path, in the order the rounds come, and the real material these banks produce.

Private equity interview prep

The rounds these processes run, from the first call to the modelling test and the investment discussion.

Paper LBO walkthrough

The early-round staple, worked end to end at the pace an interview actually allows.

The PE modelling test

What the timed test contains at each firm type, and how to train for it.

On-cycle recruiting, explained

How the headhunter-run US cycle works, and why it starts earlier than seems possible.

Paper LBO trainer

Timed drills on the exact mechanics the early rounds test.

Deal tape

The announced deals of the last quarters, including the sponsor-backed ones worth having a view on.

Banker Board Books

The fairness-opinion decks filed with the SEC: how a buyout was actually valued, in the adviser’s own pages.

My Pipeline

Every role you save here, with its deadline, in one list that follows you between devices.

How investors argue for change

Activist letters that build a value case line by line, and the research on the private credit that funds many buyouts.

All letters All research notes

Frequently asked questions

Can you get into private equity straight from university?

Yes, but through a narrow door. Several mega funds and a set of mid-market firms run direct analyst programmes, with small classes and early windows. The majority of the industry still hires associates out of investment banking analyst programmes, so the realistic plan for most candidates is a banking seat first, chosen with PE exits in mind.

What is tested in a PE interview?

Judgement, through mechanics. Expect a paper LBO in early rounds, a timed modelling test later, and an investment discussion throughout where you need a defensible view on whether a business is a good buyout. Technical fluency is assumed rather than rewarded; what scores is reasoning about the deal.

When should I start preparing?

Before the window opens, because the windows are short and the tests are skill-based. The paper LBO and the modelling test both respond quickly to deliberate practice, and both are close to impossible to cram in the week an off-cycle posting appears.

This week in this market

Open NewsViz

“Tell me about something happening in this market” is coming in some form. Pick one story, read the source, and have a view on it.

Know someone applying?

See which private equity firms run a direct junior route, what each one invests in, and what is open now.

Tracking roles is step one

Applying well is the rest of it. These are the ways to get prepared before the deadline.

CV Review by a Human

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Line-by-line review of argument, tailoring and tone, with a rewritten opening as a worked example.

$50 48h turnaround

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The subscription: personalised alerts, Apply Packs, every answer marked, full history and the whole research library.

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Applying? Don’t walk in cold.

Free drills in the Labs, structured workflows in Skills, and the Private Equity prep guide.

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