Senior Vice President, Product Management - Business Development and Client Relations

Oaktree Capital Management•Los Angeles, CA

63d•$200,000 - $225,000

About The Position

Oaktree is seeking a Senior Vice President, Product Management to serve as a strategic leader responsible for advancing Oaktree Capital's investment and client platforms that enable the firm's global business development teams to win, serve, and delight clients. This role will drive the vision, strategy, and execution of integrated technology and data capabilities that enhance how Oaktree presents investment insights, manages portfolios, and delivers an exceptional client experience across public and private markets. Partnering closely with business development, investor relations, investment, and technology leaders, the SVP will ensure Oaktree's platforms are differentiated, scalable, and aligned with the firm's growth objectives. The successful candidate will combine deep product leadership experience with a strong understanding of institutional investment management, data-driven storytelling, and client engagement. This role heavily utilizes Salesforce as a key solutions platform, so strategic solutions mindset within the Salesforce ecosystem is critical. This is a high-visibility role that blends strategic direction with operational excellence-bridging the gap between investment expertise and client impact. The SVP will champion innovation in how Oaktree leverages its investment data, analytics, and digital tools to strengthen relationships and deliver superior outcomes for clients worldwide.

Requirements

Minimum of 10 years of experience in finance technology implementation platforms
Strong experience in leveraging Salesforce for strategic solutions
Knowledge of Business Development and Client Relations workflows within the asset management industry
Proven ability to manage tasks with competing priorities and deadlines, independently determining order of priority and self-initiating other value-added tasks
Strong background in data, operations, finance, and analytics with an ability to synthesize across domains.
Expertise in Agile product development, OKR frameworks, and platform-centric architecture.
Excellent communication, leadership, and strategic thinking skills.
A demonstrated ability to influence others at all levels in a very collaborative way
Shown ability to coordinate across large teams and gain consensus
Experience implementing workflow tools preferred
Experience in the areas of project management, financial management and change management
Experience working on developing vision or strategy, and any experience with innovation is a plus
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Visio, Project, PowerPoint, MS SharePoint/Teams or equivalent applications

Nice To Haves

Experience in driving digital transformations or platform-based product strategies.
Familiarity with intelligent systems, AI/ML, and cloud-native technologies.
Prior experience building scalable, real-time platforms in data-rich environments.
Exposure to alternative asset management, high-growth enterprise environments where adaptability is essential
Experience working in a regulated financial services or alternative investments environment.

Responsibilities

Create a product vision for your assigned business problems to solve, heavily leveraging Salesforce
Conduct market research, user interviews, competitive analysis, and data analysis to inform product decisions.
Collaborate closely with UX/UI designers and engineers to ensure high-quality product experience.
Track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure success and iterate quickly.
Align your assigned business problems to solutions that drive clear outcomes
Lead investment strategy and opportunity cross-functional teams through requirements gathering, prioritization, planning, and delivery.
Collaborate with business users on how best to optimize the end-to-end business processes
Collaborate with technology on how best to optimize the technology platform for the business processes.
Develop a super user community / center of excellence for the technology platforms within the business to minimize key person risk and standardize business process and technology usage.
Act as a high-level subject matter expert of both the business processes and technical detail within the platform to improve the time to market on technology solutions.
Drive training (planning and delivery) to ensure users are maximizing the capabilities of the platform.
Facilitate QA and UAT efforts by driving test case definition to reduce the number of bugs in production.
Collaborate with the Enterprise Data team to establish and maintain governance / standards around data within the platform to improve data quality
Engage with peer firms and external providers to ensure Oaktree is keeping pace with leading practice and leveraging the most relevant capabilities of the technology platform.

Benefits

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.

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