Assistant Vice President, Product Engineering

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 1200 employees and offices in 24 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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Summary

Oaktree is looking for a hybrid product manager and software engineer to join our growing product engineering team. As an AVP in Product Engineering, you will be at the front lines of understanding user needs and turning them into scalable, impactful technology solutions-hands-on and end-to-end. This role is ideal for someone who is equally passionate about building great products and writing great code. You will partner directly with users and stakeholders to define requirements, prototype solutions, and deploy production-ready systems-often in rapid, iterative cycles.

Responsibilities:

• Engage with users to understand pain points, workflows, and unmet needs.
• Translate user insights into clear product requirements, workflows, and use cases.
• Prioritize features based on user value, technical feasibility, and time-to-impact.
• Design and implement scalable, maintainable software solutions and services with modern architectures.
• Lead rapid prototyping and test new ideas, iterating based on feedback and performance.
• Manage technical tradeoffs and recommend pragmatic solutions under time or resource constraints.
• Contribute to architecture discussions, write production-grade code, and conduct peer code reviews.
• Ensure system performance, reliability, and security across deployments.
• Facilitate user testing, feedback loops, and documentation of new capabilities.
• Work closely with designers, data team, and operations to bring products to life.
• Coordinate end-to-end delivery from concept to deployment, including QA and launch planning.
• Ensure technical feasibility and alignment between business goals and engineering work.
• Monitor usage, performance, and feedback post-launch; drive improvements.Contribute to agile ceremonies (planning, standups, retrospectives) and engineering best practices.
• Propose enhancements to architecture, tooling, and development workflows.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in software development, with at least 2+ years of product-facing or cross-functional work.
• Strong coding ability in one or more modern languages (.Net Core).
• Experience designing and deploying cloud-native applications (e.g., Azure).
• Experience with full-stack development (frontend frameworks e.g., React w/ node.js + backend APIs).
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and product development lifecycles.
• Comfortable gathering requirements directly from users and making prioritization trade-offs.
• 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,
• Able to work independently and flexibly, wearing multiple hats as needed.
• Familiarity with enterprise software, internal tooling, or workflow automation.
• Exposure to analytics or ML/AI tools in a product setting.
• Experience / interest in vibe engineering.
• Demonstrated experience working in Agile team setting using Confluence and JIRA.

Nice to have

• Private credit workflow/debt expertise; previous financial services, portfolio management/PE, banking/financial, etc. industry experience; experience working with investment professionals / middle office business partners.
• CFA, CAIA is a plus

Education:

Bachelors Degree

Base Salary Range:

$145,000-$190,000

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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