# Private Markets Data Associate **Company**: Preqin, a part of BlackRock **Location**: London, Greater London **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: mid **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Data Science **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://blackrock.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/BlackRock_Professional/job/London-Greater-London/Associate--Private-Markets-Data-Management_R265839?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_71e4919a-5f3 ## Description You will be joining Preqin, a part of BlackRock, as a Private Markets Data Associate. This role is responsible for acquiring, maintaining, and enhancing exclusive proprietary private market data across the EMEA region. Key Responsibilities: - Develop high-quality relationships with fund managers, investors, and industry participants to secure proprietary private markets data and strengthen market engagement. - Take direct ownership of data quality, coverage growth, and proprietary data contribution, ensuring outputs are accurate, complete, and commercially valuable. - Drive disciplined execution across the end-to-end data lifecycle, from market outreach and acquisition through to validation, maintenance, and ongoing enhancement. - Use strong judgement and domain understanding to identify high-value data opportunities, coverage gaps, and areas for market expansion. - Apply AI-enabled tools and more efficient ways of working to improve outreach, research, data validation, workflow quality, and scale. - Serve as a credible point of contact for clients and internal stakeholders, bringing market knowledge, analytical thinking, and confidence in private markets data. - Contribute to revenue-generating and strategic initiatives by delivering high-quality analysis, proprietary insights, and reliable execution. - Proactively raise risks, blockers, and opportunities, demonstrating strong ownership and accountability for outcomes. You are a good fit if: - 3-5+ years of relevant experience in data, financial data services, private markets, research, investor relations, client services, or a related field. - Proven ability to take ownership of complex workstreams and deliver high-quality outcomes with limited supervision. - Strong relationship-building skills, with confidence engaging fund managers, investors, clients, and senior market stakeholders. - Commercially curious and analytically sharp, with the ability to understand what data matters, why it matters, and how it supports client and business priorities. - Highly organised and execution-focused, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, maintain momentum, and deliver consistently at pace. - Strong judgement when working with incomplete, fragmented, or difficult-to-source information. - Comfortable using AI, automation, or workflow improvements to increase efficiency, improve quality, and support scale. - Proactive and accountable, with a track record of identifying opportunities, solving problems, and pushing work forward without waiting for direction. - Collaborative and adaptable, with the ability to work effectively across regions, functions, and stakeholder groups. - Committed to high standards of data quality, operational excellence, and client impact. - Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience. Our benefits include: - Retirement investment and tools designed to help you build a sound financial future. - Access to education reimbursement. - Comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being. - Family support programs. - Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge, and be there for the people you care about. Our hybrid work model enables a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. ## Skills ### Required - relationship building - data quality - analytical thinking - AI-enabled tools - commercial curiosity - domain knowledge --- Source: [Apply at blackrock.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://blackrock.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/BlackRock_Professional/job/London-Greater-London/Associate--Private-Markets-Data-Management_R265839?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)