Vice President, Product Manager - Private Client Lifecycle

Our Company

 
Oaktree is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, with about $200 billion in assets under management. The firm emphasizes an opportunistic, value-oriented and risk-controlled approach to investments in credit, private equity, real assets and listed equities.  The firm has over 1,400 employees and offices in 25 cities worldwide.

We are committed to cultivating an environment that is collaborative, curious, inclusive and honors diversity of thought. Providing training and career development opportunities and emphasizing strong support for our local communities through philanthropic initiatives are essential to our culture.

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Oaktree is seeking a Vice President, Product Management to play a key leadership role in shaping and advancing Oaktree Capital’s private credit investment lifecycle that support the workflow of the firm’s public and private investments. This individual will be responsible for defining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for technology and data solutions that enable investment lifecycle decision-making, portfolio management, and operational efficiency.

Working closely with investment professionals, operations, data, and technology teams, the Vice President will translate business needs into scalable platform capabilities that enhance transparency, performance insight, and risk management. This role requires a deep understanding of private credit investment processes, paired with strong product management expertise and a track record of delivering complex, enterprise-grade solutions in a financial services environment.

This is a high-impact position that combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution, ensuring Oaktree’s investment platforms continue to evolve to meet the firm’s growing and diverse investment needs.

Responsibilities
This position of product manager within Information Solutions will lead efforts to maximize how Oaktree uses its proprietary and non-proprietary technology while optimizing business processes within the technology.

• Create a product vision for your assigned business problems to solve
• Conduct market research, user interviews, competitive analysis, and data analysis to inform product decisions.
• Collaborate closely with UX/UI designers and engineers to ensure a high-quality product experience.
• Track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure success and iterate quickly.
• Align your assigned business problems to solutions that drive clear outcomes
• Lead investment strategy and opportunity cross-functional teams through requirements gathering, prioritization, planning, and delivery.
• Collaborate with business users on how best to optimize the end-to-end business processes
• Collaborate with technology on how best to optimize the technology platform for the business processes.
• Develop a super user community / center of excellence for the technology platforms within the business to minimize key person risk and standardize business process and technology usage.
• Act as a high-level subject matter expert of both the business processes and technical detail within the platform to improve the time to market on technology solutions.
• Drive training (planning and delivery) to ensure users are maximizing the capabilities of the platform.
• Facilitate QA and UAT efforts by driving test case definition to reduce the number of bugs in production.
• Collaborate with the Enterprise Data team to establish and maintain governance / standards around data within the platform to improve data quality
• Engage with peer firms and external providers to ensure Oaktree is keeping pace with leading practice and leveraging the most relevant capabilities of the technology platform.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in finance technology implementation platforms
• Strong experience in managing asset management, cash management, and deal workflows
• Proven ability to manage tasks with competing priorities and deadlines, independently determining order of priority and self-initiating other value-added tasks
• Strong background in data, operations, finance, and analytics with an ability to synthesize across domains.
• Expertise in Agile product development, OKR frameworks, and platform-centric architecture.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and strategic thinking skills.
• A demonstrated ability to influence others at all levels in a very collaborative way
• Shown ability to coordinate across large teams and gain consensus
• Experience implementing workflow tools preferred
• Experience in the areas of project management, financial management and change management
• Experience working on developing vision or strategy, and any experience with innovation is a plus
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Visio, Project, PowerPoint, MS SharePoint/Teams or equivalent applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in driving digital transformations or platform-based product strategies.
• Familiarity with intelligent systems, AI/ML, and cloud-native technologies.
• Prior experience building scalable, real-time platforms in data-rich environments.
• Exposure to alternative asset management, high-growth enterprise environments where adaptability is essential
• Experience working in a regulated financial services or alternative investments environment.

Personal Attributes

• Relationship Building: works effectively with diverse teams of people with multiple perspectives, talents, and backgrounds.  She or he is known for doing “the right thing” irrespective of politics and is comfortable with consensus building (at multiple levels) and soliciting constructive feedback; ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of participants including senior leadership, clients, other departments, and 3rd party providers.
• Communication: strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills; ability to present complex material.
• Independence & Collaboration: experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment; must be able to drive work effectively with limited supervision (at times) while representing department and executive management interests and concerns.
• Work Ethic: focus on continual development, performance, accountability, and self-motivation.
• Flexibility & Organization: adapt to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities; proven ability to multi-task and efficiently manage time across competing activities/resources; able to effectively prioritize, execute tasks, and thrive in a high-pressure fast paced environment.
• Intellectual Curiosity: energized by learning new things and engaging across a wide range of issues; must have strong problem-solving skills.
• Driving Results: sets aggressive timelines and objectives to drive results, conveys a sense of urgency, and drives issues to closure; self-starter committed to achieving results and has a strong sense of ownership and follow-through.
• Judgment: makes recommendations and decisions that balance a variety of factors.
• Characteristics: Energized and energizing; creative; motivated; organized and pragmatic; comfortable engaging with others.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Master’s degree in Business or equivalent advanced degree preferred a plus.

Base Salary Range

$170,000-$200,000

In addition to a competitive base salary, you will be eligible to receive discretionary bonus incentives, a comprehensive benefits package and a flexible work arrangement.  The base salary offered will be commensurate with experience and/or qualifications, industry knowledge and expertise, as well as prior training and education.

Equal Opportunity Employment Policy

Oaktree is committed to diversity and to equal opportunity employment. Oaktree does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present physical or mental disability, HIV status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran status, military service, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic violence victim status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state and local laws and ordinances. This policy applies to hiring, placement, internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, recruitment advertising, transfers, demotions, layoffs, terminations, recruitment advertising, rates of pay and other forms of compensation and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment. This policy applies to all Oaktree applicants, employees, clients, and contractors. Staff members wishing to report violations or suspected violations of this policy should contact the head of their department or Human Resources.

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