Business Intelligence Analyst

Playground Global is a venture capital firm backing the most technically ambitious founders working at the edge of engineering and science. With over $1.7 billion under management, Playground invests in early-stage companies defining the future of next-generation compute, industrial transformation, and engineered biology.

We’re hiring a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst to figure out what internal tools our team needs across investing, fundraising, and finance and to build and ship them, using modern AI tooling to move fast. The hard part isn’t writing the code; it’s talking to the people who’ll use these tools, deciding what’s actually worth building, and steering the build so it’s secure, scalable, and genuinely adopted.

The position requires strong product judgment, stakeholder communication, and a software-engineering foundation.

What You’ll Do

Figuring Out What to Build

• Work with the investment, fundraising, and finance teams to learn how each group actually operates and where software and AI can remove friction.

• Turn competing needs into a clear, prioritized roadmap that addresses everyone’s core concerns.

Building & Shipping It

• Ship internal tools end to end, from idea to daily use, mostly by orchestrating AI and existing software rather than building everything from scratch.

• Drive AI-assisted development with the engineering judgment to keep implementations secure, maintainable, and scalable.

• Own the security and reliability of tools that touch sensitive fund, LP, and portfolio data.

• Evaluate new software and AI products, test what’s promising, and adopt what earns its place.

Data & Reporting Priorities

• Portfolio & LP Intelligence: Build robust, single-source-of-truth portfolio dashboards for internal leadership and LPs, bringing real-time visibility to fund performance, valuations, and distribution metrics.

• Investor Relations Engagement: Partner with the IR team to optimize our CRM and data workflows, ensuring seamless tracking, more responsive LP communication, and institutional-grade reporting.

• Pipeline & Deal Analytics: Establish scalable monitoring and analytics across the deal pipeline to give the investment team clear, actionable visibility into active opportunities.

• Network Sourcing & Market Intelligence: Unlock insights from firm-wide network connections to enhance diligence workflows, expand coverage of early-stage opportunities, and power data-driven investment decisions.