Private Credit Product Manager

About the Role

We are seeking a Private Credit Product Manager to lead the product direction and commercial evolution of a differentiated private-credit and CLO platform. They will identify market and client needs, turn them into a prioritized product roadmap, work directly with engineering and UX to deliver solutions, and partner with sales, marketing, implementation/client support, and senior client stakeholders to drive adoption. The platform supports institutional private-credit businesses across deal research, portfolio construction, IRR/performance analysis, portfolio management, and operational efficiency. The hire must understand both the investment side and the operational/data side of private credit sufficiently to build products that work across multiple sophisticated clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and champion the long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Private Credit platform, aligning product priorities with client's strategic objectives and institutional client needs.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in private credit, identifying opportunities related to market structure, regulatory change, and emerging technologies such as AI/ML and agentic workflows.
• Conduct market discovery, client workshops, and industry research to gather, prioritize, and translate complex requirements into scalable product capabilities.
• Simplify private credit investment and operational workflows into automated, efficient solutions that improve usability, scalability, and business outcomes.
• Partner closely with engineering and UX teams to drive successful product delivery from concept through launch, including collaboration on architecture, APIs, and integrations.
• Lead go-to-market planning with Marketing, Sales Enablement, and Client Support to support strong market positioning, client adoption, and commercial success.
• Define and track product KPIs, manage the product backlog with discipline, and mentor Product Owners and cross-functional team members to foster product excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree such as an MBA or relevant professional certification such as CFA is highly desirable.
• 10+ years of experience in private markets finance or financial technology.
• Deep expertise in private credit investment and operational workflows, ideally through experience with a financial technology provider serving institutional clients or direct experience with a Private Credit Manager (GP) or institutional investor (LP).
• Proven success in a senior product management role delivering client-facing capabilities in a B2B enterprise SaaS or financial technology environment.
• Strong technical fluency with the ability to work effectively with engineering teams on product architecture, APIs, and complex system integrations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex financial and technical concepts to a range of stakeholders.
• Self-motivated, strategic, and results-oriented, with the ability to manage ambiguity and drive momentum in a fast-changing, high-growth market.

Preferred

• Master's degree such as an MBA or relevant professional certification such as CFA.
• Direct experience in CLOs, private debt, direct lending, leveraged finance, broadly syndicated loans, or adjacent credit platforms.
• Front-office exposure to deal screening, underwriting workflows, portfolio construction, credit monitoring, performance/IRR analytics, or investment decision support.
• Middle-office exposure to loan operations, covenant/compliance monitoring, cash flows, reconciliations, data controls, valuation, reporting, or fund/investor processes.
• History of conducting structured client discovery: workshops, design-partner programs, client advisory boards, market research.
• Product go-to-market experience: positioning, sales enablement, demos, pilots, packaging, adoption plans, client-support partnership.
• Exposure to AI/ML, workflow automation, document intelligence, agentic workflows, or data/analytics modernization in a regulated financial-services environment.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary Range: $200,000.00 - $220,000.00