VP Product Manager, Credit Technology
About Us
We are a leading global asset management firm with over 3,000 employees across 20 offices in 15 countries, helping millions of investors around the world pursue their financial goals. We hire critical thinkers who thrive in a collaborative culture where we solve real problems while building the future of finance.
- Continuously invest in a high-performance and inclusive culture, celebrating and valuing a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints.
- Encourage career mobility, allowing you to learn different functions and technologies while we benefit from your experience across teams.
- Run technology pro bono programs that support the non-profit community and offer volunteer opportunities for our engineering teams.
- Offer education reimbursements and ongoing training in technology, communication, and diversity & inclusion.
- Embrace knowledge sharing through lunch-and-learns, demos, and technical forums.
- Consider our people our greatest asset—helping you learn and grow while delivering impactful technology solutions.
About You
You are excited to be part of a vibrant engineering community that values diversity, hard work, and continuous learning. You:
- Love solving complex real-world business problems.
- Recognize that cross-functional collaboration is a core component of success.
- Believe there are multiple ways to solve technical problems and are willing to debate trade-offs.
- Have become a stronger engineer by learning from mistakes.
- Are a doer, eager to grow your career and gain experience across technologies and business functions.
Responsibilities
- Own the multi-year product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Credit Technology platforms supporting research, analytics, trading, and portfolio management workflows.
- Serve as a senior product partner to credit analysts, portfolio managers, traders, credit analytics teams, engineering leads, and technology leadership.
- Translate complex credit business needs into clear product priorities, requirements, business cases, and delivery plans for engineering and data teams.
- Lead roadmap prioritization across competing stakeholder needs, balancing business value, regulatory and operational risk, technical feasibility, scalability, and time-to-market.
- Lead cross-functional governance and decision forums to align stakeholders on priorities, scope, dependencies, risks, tradeoffs, and measurable outcomes.
- Drive delivery of tools, dashboards, data products, workflow applications, analytics capabilities, and AI-enabled solutions that improve credit decision-making and operating efficiency.
- Establish product success measures, adoption metrics, data quality indicators, and performance dashboards to evaluate impact and guide investment decisions.
- Oversee testing, validation, rollout, change management, and user adoption for complex business logic and mission-critical credit applications.
- Partner with engineering leadership on platform architecture, system design trade-offs, API strategy, data integration, and long-term modernization opportunities.
- Partner with engineering leadership on capacity planning, sequencing, dependency management, and resourcing decisions across the Credit Technology portfolio.
- Own post-release accountability by monitoring adoption, operational health, product stability, user feedback, and continuous improvement opportunities after rollout.
- Communicate product strategy, delivery progress, risks, and recommendations to senior business and technology stakeholders in an executive-ready format.
- Coach and mentor junior product managers, analysts, and cross-functional contributors while scaling consistent product practices, governance, prioritization discipline, and operating model maturity within Credit Technology.
Requirements
- 8+ years of product management, technology strategy, business analysis, or related experience within financial services, asset management, capital markets, or enterprise technology.
- Demonstrated experience leading product strategy and roadmap execution for complex platforms, data products, workflow tools, analytics applications, or trading and investment technology solutions.
- Strong understanding of fixed income, credit markets, investment research, portfolio management, trading workflows, or related asset management processes.
- Proven ability to partner with senior investment professionals, business stakeholders, engineers, data teams, and technology leaders to define and deliver high-impact solutions.
- Experience gathering and refining complex requirements, structuring business cases, prioritizing roadmaps, and translating ambiguous needs into actionable product deliverables.
- Strong analytical and technical fluency, including familiarity with data models, relational databases, APIs, dashboards, reporting tools, and modern software delivery practices.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, executive presentation, and influence skills in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, Financial Engineering, Business, or a related technical or quantitative field.
Preferred Qualifications
- PhD, MBA, CFA, or advanced degree in a quantitative, technical, or finance-related field.
- Experience with credit investment platforms, trading systems, portfolio analytics, research management tools, risk analytics, or investment data platforms.
- Hands-on familiarity with SQL, Python, Power BI, or similar data analysis and visualization tools.
- Experience delivering AI-enabled, data science, or automation capabilities for investment, research, trading, or operational workflows.
- Experience operating in a highly regulated financial services environment with strong attention to controls, resiliency, auditability, and data quality.
- Track record of mentoring product talent and improving product operating models, governance, prioritization, and stakeholder engagement practices.
What Success Looks Like
The successful candidate will bring strategic direction and execution discipline to Credit Technology, strengthen alignment between investment teams and engineering, improve the quality and usability of credit data and analytics, and deliver platforms that enhance research, trading, portfolio management, and decision-making across the credit lifecycle.
Pay
PIMCO follows a total compensation approach, including a base salary and a discretionary bonus. Base salary is determined by core job responsibilities, relevant experience, internal level, and market factors. The discretionary bonus rewards performance based on company, business, team, and individual achievements.
Salary Range: $150,000.00 - $225,000.00