Bain Capital

We cultivate a high-performance culture and provide a supportive, growth-oriented mindset for all team members. We view a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and opinions as vital to building better businesses, engaging talent, and driving high performance and financial returns.

Our senior leadership is highly engaged in advancing our strategy, including efforts to nurture and strengthen our culture of belonging across both the firm and our portfolio companies.

The diversity of our community continues to grow, and we recognize it’s an ongoing journey to drive better outcomes.

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We continue to deepen our culture of belonging and broaden our focus on development, mentorship, and sponsorship to help each team member thrive and grow at Bain Capital.

We aspire to

Have our team reflect the diversity of the broadest talent sources

Pipeline & recruiting

In our recruiting processes, we have made deep investments to open the aperture and expand our candidate pipelines as well as to integrate inclusive best practices into our interview processes.

Create a highly inclusive culture and be the industry’s employer of choice

Culture & inclusion

In support of an inclusive culture, we commit to an annual assessment of engagement and inclusion. We support inclusive leadership practices, leverage communication as a building block of inclusion, and have a wide array of Employee Resource Groups. The groups are open to all team members—people who identify, allies, and those who want to learn more.

Set a leadership example and create demonstrable change

Talent development

In employee development practices, we embrace sponsorship and apply best-in-class evidence-based practices to our review processes, focusing on organizational attention. Enhancing our firm-wide policies, programs, and work approach to ensure they effectively support all team members. Continued investment in transparency across the platform—remaining a best-in-class employer on topics as varied as equal pay and benefits offerings.

Integrating Sustainability & Impact

Private investments

We believe that diverse backgrounds and perspectives lead to better outcomes. With this in mind, it’s imperative that each individual at Bain Capital has access to equal opportunities and is welcomed into our organization with open arms. Our private investments businesses take pride in driving inclusivity across themselves and our portfolio companies.

Capital Markets

Our capital markets teams are committed to attracting top talent that reflects the diversity of the broadest talent sources. Our investment teams are focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and conduct diligence across a broad range of factors to identify risks and value creation opportunities, including assessment of human resource policies, practices, staffing, and organizational culture. We continue to include an assessment of these factors in our investment review processes, as well, and are extending these concepts to our investments by enhancing diversity at board, management, and company levels.

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