[Remote] Associate Director - Business Partner, Legal & Compliance Technology

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vista Equity Partners is a leading global investment firm focusing on enterprise software and technology-enabled companies. They are looking for a Legal & Compliance Technology Business Partner to act as a technology liaison for the Legal, Compliance, and Regulatory teams, managing the compliance and legal technology platforms and ensuring regulatory alignment.

Responsibilities

• Own and administer Vista’s compliance and legal technology platforms, including communications surveillance (Behavox), electronic communications archival (Global Relay), policy management, and regulatory reporting tools
• Manage day-to-day platform operations including user provisioning, configuration, data retention policies, lexicon tuning, alert management, and vendor coordination
• Serve as the primary point of contact for compliance and legal teams on technology support, training, and platform troubleshooting
• Maintain the legal & compliance tool inventory, track contracts, renewals, and licensing, and flag consolidation or modernization opportunities
• Coordinate with technology teams on integrations between legal & compliance platforms and core infrastructure (e.g., Salesforce, Snowflake, data lake, identity management systems)
• Support the Firm’s efforts to explore and implement AI-driven automation solutions that streamline manual processes and reduce costs within Legal & Compliance
• Maintain a working understanding of the regulatory landscape impacting registered investment advisers, private equity firms, and broker-dealers, including SEC, FINRA, and applicable state and international requirements
• Translate evolving regulatory requirements into system configuration changes, new platform capabilities, and data retention or reporting enhancements
• Ensure that technology implementations and system changes meet compliance, audit, and recordkeeping obligations before deployment
• Support regulatory examinations and audits by producing technology-related documentation, data extracts, and system narratives as needed
• Monitor vendor regulatory posture and certifications, ensuring third-party platforms remain aligned with firm obligations
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of Legal & Compliance, and related technology industry standards and best practices through regular peer benchmarking and active participation in industry events
• Lead or support technology projects from initiation through delivery, including new platform implementations, system migrations, and major enhancements
• Develop and manage project plans, timelines, resource requirements, and risk registers, keeping stakeholders informed through regular status updates
• Coordinate cross-functional workstreams across Legal &Compliance, Information Security, and Technology to ensure seamless execution
• Manage vendor relationships and hold third-party providers accountable to delivery milestones, SLAs, and contractual commitments
• Gather, document, and prioritize business requirements from legal and compliance stakeholders, translating them into user stories, process maps, and functional specifications
• Understand L&C workflows and availably technology including legal expense management, fund formation and investors on-boarding, investors and entity (fund management), anti-money laundering, privacy, regulatory reporting , control room management, investment transaction for both PE and credit platforms, contracts review, third-party management, document and data archiving and management, and other legal and compliance workflows
• Identify workflow gaps, manual processes, and inefficiencies across the legal & compliance technology stack, and partner with technology to improve or automate them through use of AI and automation software
• Conduct UAT for system changes, ensuring solutions meet business and regulatory needs before deployment
• Track and report on KPIs for the legal & compliance technology stack—including alert volumes, false-positive rates, archival completeness, and review turnaround times—flagging issues proactively
• Support change management, documentation, and training as new tools and capabilities are deployed to legal and compliance users
• Build trusted working relationships with senior stakeholders across Legal & Compliance, Information Security, and Operations and collaborate with L&C partners such as CAPS, Finance and Investor Servicing
• Partner with the broader Information Technology team on initiative prioritization, delivery planning, and operational support
• Communicate proactively with stakeholders on project status, emerging risks, regulatory changes with technology implications, and upcoming system changes
• Actively contribute to team meetings, stand-ups, and retrospectives, and help cultivate a culture of continuous improvement within the technology function

Skills

• 10+ years of experience in a business analyst, technology business partner, compliance operations, or technology support role within financial services, asset management, private equity, or a related regulated industry
• Demonstrated understanding of the regulatory environment governing registered investment advisers and private equity firms, including SEC, FINRA, and relevant state and international regulations
• Strong private equity or investment management knowledge, including familiarity with fund structures, deal lifecycle, investor reporting, and the operational needs of legal and compliance functions within an alternative asset manager
• Experience with CRM platforms (preferably Salesforce), compliance case management systems, and reporting or analytics tools (e.g., PowerBI, Sigma, or Excel)
• Proven project management skills, including experience managing technology implementations end-to-end, with the ability to juggle multiple concurrent workstreams with strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to gather business requirements, document user stories or functional specifications, and support technology delivery in a compliance or legal context
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to distill complex regulatory or technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders, and to communicate with precision and discretion on sensitive matters
• Bachelor's degree in information systems, business administration, finance, legal studies, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Ability to exercise the highest degree of discretion and appropriate handling of confidential, privileged, and sensitive information
• Hands-on experience with communications surveillance and electronic communications archival systems (Behavox and Global Relay strongly preferred)
• Familiarity with data privacy frameworks (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) and information security concepts as they relate to compliance technology is a strong plus

Benefits

• Annual cash bonus
• Comprehensive benefits package

Company Overview

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