Lateral after 3+ years in Growth Equity / VC

Hi everyone,

Since there are not many posts about life after getting the PE/VC job and working there for a few years, I've decided to start this discussion. I am currently a Senior Associate at one of the healthcare growth equity / VC funds in New York. I have been working at the fund for 3+ years. Fortunately I am not required to get an MBA, in order to get promoted to Senior Associate or VP. For those of you who are currently Senior Associates / VPs in a fund, what would you consider are the most important things for a lateral move?

Also how would you go about finding the lateral opportunities? I do get emails from headhunters but it seems to me that the buyside lateral market is not as structured and robust as the market where we first recruited for the buyside job or the banking lateral market.

Any help / advice would be much appreciated.