Adams Street Partners

Associate or Senior Associate, Marketing Coordinator

Adams Street Partners$80K — $105K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or related field
  • 3-5 years of experience in marketing, communications, or project coordination
  • Experience in financial services or professional services preferred
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills across diverse stakeholders
  • Proficient with project management tools like Asana or Monday.com
  • Proficient in Salesforce or similar CMS for maintaining distribution lists

Responsibilities

  • Support marketing projects from start to finish
  • Coordinate logistics for multi-channel campaigns
  • Act as a primary contact for incoming marketing requests
  • Clarify project objectives, timelines, and requirements
  • Balance team workload and align priorities
  • Track timelines and deliverables to meet deadlines
  • Maintain organized documentation for all projects
  • Communicate updates and manage stakeholder expectations

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) with immediate vesting and employer match
  • Profit sharing and flexible spending accounts (FSA)
  • Generous paid parental leave, including for adoption
  • Significant paid time off and commuter benefits
  • Employer-paid short- and long-term disability and life insurance
Full Job Description
As Adams Street's marketing priorities continue to expand across both wealth and institutional audiences, the Marketing Coordinator will play an important role in supporting the execution of firmwide initiatives and cross-functional campaigns - including complex, multi-channel efforts that span content, digital, advertising, and communications.

This role will provide project coordination and operational support to help ensure Marketing deliverables and broader firm initiatives are completed with accuracy, efficiency, and consistency. Serving as a central coordinator, this individual will help facilitate collaboration across teams, improve workflow visibility, and keep projects moving forward. Their contributions will strengthen day-to-day execution, expand team capacity, and support the overall impact of marketing across the firm.

The Marketing Coordinator will support the planning, communication, and execution of marketing-led and cross-functional projects. Acting as a key point of coordination, this individual will help manage timelines, organize stakeholder input, track deliverables, and ensure projects stay on schedule and within scope. By improving executional efficiency, this role will enable senior marketers to focus more deeply on strategy, messaging, brand development, campaign design, and commercial enablement across both the wealth and institutional segments.

Responsibilities

Project Coordination & Workflow Management
  • Support the execution of marketing projects from initiation through completion
  • Coordinate campaign logistics across channels - including email, advertising, web, thought leadership, and social - ensuring that all workstreams are sequenced properly and aligned to campaign objectives
  • Serve as an initial point of contact for incoming marketing requests from internal teams and stakeholders
  • Review project requests to ensure objectives, timelines, and requirements are clearly defined
  • Help assign and schedule projects to balance team workload and support priority alignment
  • Track project timelines, deliverables, and next steps to ensure deadlines are met
  • Maintain organized project documentation, including campaign calendars, briefs, timelines, status updates, meeting notes, and archived deliverables
  • Support the coordination and management of distribution lists in Salesforce, including maintaining audience segmentation, ensuring list accuracy, and working across teams to keep contact data current and compliant
  • Proactively communicate project updates, key milestones, and changes to stakeholders; manage expectations and escalate risks or delays as needed
  • Route materials through appropriate review and approval channels, including Investment, Product Strategy, Legal/Compliance, Investor Relations, and other relevant teams
  • Maintain version control and review history across project materials
  • Coordinate recurring Marketing team meetings and support cross-functional project tracking

Process & Operations Support
  • Help centralize coordination for high-priority and complex marketing initiatives
  • Identify opportunities to improve workflows, processes, and team collaboration
  • Support marketing operations reporting, including project status, team capacity, and resource tracking
  • Liaise with external vendors, agencies, and platform partners as needed to support campaign execution and track asset delivery against deadlines
  • Monitor workflow performance, including project timing and recurring bottlenecks
  • Recommend process or tool enhancements that improve visibility, efficiency, and execution

Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field
  • 3-5 years of relevant experience in marketing, communications, project coordination, or a related field; financial services or professional services experience preferred
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across a wide range of stakeholders
  • Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Asana, Monday.com, Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint
  • Proficiency with Salesforce or similar CMS platform to maintain and coordinate distribution lists
  • Self-starter with a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset
  • Ability to support marketing initiatives across both wealth and institutional segments


We offer a competitive U.S. benefits package designed to support health, financial security, and work-life balance. Highlights include medical, dental, and vision coverage; a 401(k) with immediate vesting and employer match; profit sharing; flexible spending accounts (FSA); and paid parental leave, including adoption. Employees also receive generous paid time off, commuter benefits, employer-paid short- and long-term disability and life insurance, and access to additional voluntary benefits.

Illinois Pay Transparency

$80,000-$105,000 USD

About Adams Street Partners

Adams Street Partners is a private equity firm that invests in venture capital, buyout, and mezzanine debt transactions. The firm primarily invests in technology, healthcare, and financial services sectors. Adams Street Partners was founded in 1972 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
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200 employees
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Founded
1972

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