Director, Value Creation Private Markets

Director, Value Creation Private Markets Department: Investments Type: Full-Time - Permanent Location: Toronto (Hybrid) Posting Date: September 9, 2026 At OPTrust, paying pensions today, preserving pensions for tomorrow is our mission and business. When you choose OPTrust, you join a team of smart, talented people who fuel our success and have a passion for pensions. Everyone at OPTrust – in Toronto, London and Sydney – makes a meaningful impact.

Our culture is driven by team members with different backgrounds and perspectives creating an inclusive and fulfilling place to work for everyone. We work in a fast-paced environment, but we find time to have fun and give back to the community. What OPTrust offers you Unique culture rooted in our core values – collaboration and teamwork, integrity, respect, flexibility, excellence, and continuous improvement.

A purpose-driven environment where we all work towards the common goal of paying pensions today and preserving pensions for tomorrow. Comprehensive benefits focused on your health and wellness, including dental, vision and extended health benefits, as well as membership in our world-class defined benefit pension plan. A flexible, hybrid work model. A dedicated inclusion, diversity, and equity strategy with meaningful opportunities to participate, including our employee-led resource groups.

Extensive professional development opportunities and learning initiatives including access to LinkedIn Learning, guest speakers, tuition reimbursement, professional association memberships, leadership development programs, a mentorship program, monthly professional development time and more. A competitive vacation package with additional work-life balance days. About OPTrust With net assets of over $27 billion, OPTrust invests and manages one of Canada’s largest pension funds and administers the OPSEU Pension Plan (including OPTrust Select), a defined benefit plan with over 118,000 members.

OPTrust’s Private Markets team is a dedicated business unit within the Investment Division of OPTrust that invests and manages private markets investments, primarily focused on infrastructure, private equity, and real estate, on behalf of the Fund. We execute our member-driven investment strategy with our unique application of a total portfolio approach and a “One Team, One Fund” mindset and culture.

From our offices in Toronto, London, and Sydney, the team manages a diversified $13.5 billion global portfolio of private market investments across asset classes, sectors, strategies and geographies. We invest through a combination of fund commitments, co-investments, and direct investments. About the role The Director, Value Creation will lead the modernization of Private Markets investment workflows and drive AI-enabled value creation across the portfolio.

This role combines expertise in private markets, process transformation, data, analytics, and AI to improve investment decision-making, operational efficiency, and portfolio outcomes. Key responsibilities include mapping and optimizing end-to-end investment processes, implementing technology and AI solutions, supporting the development of advanced analytics to deliver data-driven insights, and helping to oversee digitization initiatives across portfolio companies.

Working closely with investment teams, business partners, and external stakeholders, the Director, Value Creation will champion continuous improvement in the identification and implementation of AI tools, help advance a "One Team, One Fund" approach, and lead technology-driven value creation efforts within the Private Markets team and our direct portfolio. The Director, Value Creation is a member of the Value Creation team which works alongside deal teams in Private Markets to provide oversight and assist in the implementation of value creation initiatives for Private Markets workflows and within the Private Markets portfolio.

What you’ll do Private Markets Workflow Modernization and AI En