Principal, Atlas Deal Team

About the role

The role serves as the middle role in a four-person team overseeing Atlas SP, a leading asset-backed finance business. The team is responsible for setting priorities, designing the capital structure, executing strategic initiatives, and managing the portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Serve as day-to-day execution lead across all active workstreams, coordinating junior team members and driving deal momentum from origination through close.
• Prepare and present analysis on key strategic topics for senior leadership and other internal stakeholders.
• Negotiate and execute transactions, including investments made by and into the business, with full accountability for diligence, structuring, and documentation.
• Maintain regular engagement with key internal and external stakeholders — including investors, lenders, counterparties, and Apollo senior leadership — to advance strategic objectives and manage relationships.
• Oversee recurring reporting deliverables and continuously re-underwrite the portfolio, ensuring alignment with business strategy and risk parameters.
• Contribute to the formulation and execution of key strategic initiatives, including capital structure decisions, new asset class expansion, and operating model development.
• Mentor and develop junior team members, elevating overall team capability and amplifying the impact of the platform.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 6+ years of experience in securitized products banking, FIG investment banking, or a related structured finance discipline.
• Deep understanding of securitized products, asset-backed structures, and related asset classes; desire to broaden proficiency in corporate finance and capital markets.
• Proven ability to analyze and optimize structural features of transactions to enhance marketability while meeting the objectives of issuer clients.
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills with the ability to build and stress-test complex transaction models and present findings to senior audiences.
• Established network of institutional investor, lender, and counterparty relationships; experience engaging at the most senior levels with key external partners.
• Commercial acumen to balance firm risk objectives with transaction execution; ability to operate with a principal mindset across the deal lifecycle.
• Nimble, “business builder” mentality — willingness to embrace change, flex skillset to the demands of the role, and grow with the platform over time.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills; able to synthesize complex topics and present with clarity to both technical and non-technical audiences.

About Apollo

Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade credit to private equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. As of September 30th, 2025, Apollo had approximately $840 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit www.apollo.com.

Purpose & Core Values

Our Purpose & Core Values:

• Our Clients Rely On Our Investment Acumen To Help Secure Their Future.
• We Must Never Lose Our Focus And Determination To Be The Best Investors And Most Trusted Partners On Their Behalf.
• We Strive To Be The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.
• The leading provider of capital solutions to companies.

Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.

• A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.

We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:

• Outperform expectations.
• Challenge Convention.
• Champion Opportunity.
• Lead responsibly.
• Drive collaboration.

As One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.

Benefits

Apollo relies on its people to keep it a leader in alternative investment management, and the firm’s benefit programs are crafted to offer meaningful coverage for both you and your family. Pay Range $300,000.