AVP, Product Owner of Investment and Trading Technology

Position: AVP Investment and Trading Technology (AVP, Product Owner of both home-grown and vendor investment platforms)

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Work Model: Hybrid (3 Onsite / 2 Remote)

Duration: Permanent Full Time, Direct Hire

Salary Bonus: 150k to 190k 30% Bonus Excellent Benefits Program

What You Will Do:

• The ideal candidate will perform business analysis & serve as product owner of both home-grown and vendor investment platforms. It is crucial for this individual to have previous private debt workflow/debt experience such as the lifecycle of a deal and the deal debt process.
• The ideal candidate will interface with investment and investment adjacent teams frequently so having an understanding in their processes and workflows is necessary. The candidate should have previous experience in designing detailed workflows, working with the development team to build applications, streamlining operations, gather in depth requirements, interface & work with stakeholders/leadership, and uncovering growth opportunities. The candidate should demonstrate excellent communication skills, curiosity, be solution oriented and have a collaborative approach.
• Understand user (investment teams) needs, gather / define business requirements, and turn them into specs for the development team
• Drive the end-to-end technology product development framework and define near term product vision as well as articulate to the development team, and leadership
• Frequently interface with and be the voice of core application users; anticipate / resolve for user needs proactively
• Define and prioritize core features and functionality for the development team
• Be a subject matter expert of private deal workflows and associated technology that supports business needs
• Document and maintain product, feature requirements, enhancement requests, make recommendations for improvements and/or alternatives of business applications
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills while working with a global team

What Gets You The Job:

• 8 years of experience as an investment application product owner or business analyst
• Private credit workflow/debt expertise; previous financial services, portfolio management/PE, banking/financial, etc. industry experience
• Experience designing and building in depth workflows, systems, writing in depth requirements, product road mapping / future state vision, defining OKRs, maintaining backlog and prioritization queue,
• Excellent communication skills; experience working with the investment professionals / middle office business partners, development team, partnering with leadership, etc
• Proven track record in learning new business functions and technology (both internally developed and vendor implementations), as well as bridging the gap between both groups to drive results and deliver core and enhanced features
• Ability to dissect complex technical and business problems, provide detailed analyses and actionable recommendations (proactive and reactive), and optimize for efficiencies
• Experience with investment applications such as private credit portfolio monitoring platforms, OMS products - Aladdin / Charles River, Risk analytics, ESG & research applications, etc
• Demonstrated experience working in Agile team setting using Confluence and JIRA
• SQL Knowledge, CFA, CAIA is a plus
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills while working with a global team

Please send your resume to Dave Lim, Senior Technical Recruiter for immediate consideration.

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