Research Assistant, Data Management - Spring 2025

Location: Remote 

Duration: late February - early June 2025

Time Commitment: 15 hours per week

Application Instructions:

In lieu of a cover letter, please prepare a  response to the prompts at the bottom of this job description containing no more than 4 sentences. Submit this, along with your resume, via Handshake. 

TPG Background

TPG is a leading global alternative asset management firm, founded in San Francisco in 1992, with $212 billion of assets under management and investment and operational teams around the world. TPG invests across a broadly diversified set of strategies, including private equity, impact, credit, real estate, and market solutions, and our unique strategy is driven by collaboration, innovation, and inclusion. Our teams combine deep product and sector experience with broad capabilities and expertise to develop differentiated insights and add value for our fund investors, portfolio companies, management teams, and communities.

TPG’s success depends on our people, and we build and sustain our world-class team by creating an inclusive, supportive culture within the firm that seeks excellence and encourages humility and transparency. The quality of our investments and our ability to build great companies depend on the originality of our insights. Reaching our firm’s full potential means supporting every team member to bring the fullness of their unique perspective to their work and to our community. We are committed to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace to foster diversity of thought and reflect the breadth of our limited partners and portfolio companies

Y Analytics

Y Analytics’ mission is to increase the amount and effectiveness of capital allocation for the greater good, as described in the UN SDGs, by increasing trust in the social and environmental impact achieved by that capital. Y Analytics was launched in parallel to The Rise Fund and founded in partnership with TPG/Rise to provide best-in-class insights and tools that improve capital allocation decisions. Our rigorous approach to impact assessment and management draws on evidentiary academic and economic research, enabling greater use of evidence in capital allocation decision making and impact valuation. In addition to conducting impact valuation for the TPG Rise Funds, Y Analytics is also responsible for managing sustainability/responsible investing across TPG. We support TPG and its portfolio companies by assessing and advising on value creation in this sphere. 

Position

Y Analytics maintains multiple initiatives to aggregate and draw insights from past impact assessments. The team seeks a Data Management Research Assistant (RA) to maintain our internal databases and devise/implement data management improvements. This individual spends the majority of their time on data entry, while completing occasional strategic side projects. The position is open to current undergraduates and is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about data, climate, sustainability/impact investing, global development, and/or economics and who has a strong desire to expand and deepen knowledge of impact, and ESG analysis in a client-focused environment. 

Requirements

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
• Undergraduate student currently pursuing a degree in Business, Economics, Environmental Sciences, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Sustainability, Public Administration, Information Systems, or another relevant program
• Experience or demonstrated interest in consulting, finance, impact investing, or a related field
• Demonstrated ability to construct, manipulate and manage data sets in Excel
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, and fluency in English
• Experience with Access, SQL, Azure, Tableau, and/or PowerBI a plus

Application Prompt:

In no more than four sentences, please describe your interest in impact investing / responsible investing.