Vice President, Product Design

Oaktree Capital Management • Los Angeles, CA

21d • $200,000 - $225,000

About The Position

Oaktree is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, with over $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 1400 employees and offices in 25 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. The Technology department at Oaktree Capital Management delivers secure, scalable, and innovative solutions that power the firm’s global investment and business operations. Through strong partnerships across the company, we drive digital transformation, advance operational efficiency, and provide a trusted data foundation to create measurable impact for Oaktree’s teams, clients, and partners. For additional information please visit our website at www.oaktreecapital.com . Summary Oaktree Capital is transforming its technology organization from traditional application development to modern product engineering — a shift that fuses AI, automation, and exceptional engineering culture to deliver institutional-grade investment platforms at scale The VP of Product Design will be a leader in shaping Oaktree’s digital product design experience. This leader will define the design vision, systems, and practices that ensure our products are not just functional and secure—but intuitive, elegant, and empowering for our investment teams, clients, and partners. This leader will establish and scale Oaktree’s design capability, ensuring our digital products reflect the same rigor and excellence that define our investment approach. This leader will introduce design thinking as a core operating discipline—embedding user empathy, experimentation, and iteration into how we build products.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in product design, UX, or human-centered design, including senior leadership.
• Demonstrated success building and scaling design practices in an enterprise or financial technology context.
• Expertise in applying design thinking methodologies to complex, data-rich workflows.
• Deep understanding of enterprise UX, data visualization, and design systems.
• Proven collaboration with engineering and product management in agile environments.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling ability.
• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Product Design, Computer Science, or a related field required.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree is preferred.
• Equivalent experience in design leadership within enterprise or financial technology environments will be considered.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the Product Design function within Product Engineering—covering UX, UI, research, and design systems.
• Partner with Product Engineering, Product Management, and business stakeholders to define the end-to-end experience across Oaktree’s digital ecosystem.
• Introduce and institutionalize the design thinking framework as the foundation for product discovery and delivery.
• Establish Oaktree’s design system and visual identity, ensuring coherence across products, especially investment lifecycle tools.
• Serve as a thought partner to senior leadership—helping connect user experience, business strategy, and data intelligence.
• Champion deep user research and contextual inquiry to uncover investor, client, and operational needs.
• Translate insights into clear user journeys, problem statements, and measurable experience goals.
• Facilitate creative exploration sessions that bring together product, data, and engineering to co-create solutions.
• Oversee rapid prototyping to visualize and test concepts before build—balancing fidelity with speed.
• Implement structured usability testing and continuous feedback loops to refine the experience post-launch.
• Build rituals and toolkits that embed these phases into product development cadences (e.g., design sprints, hypothesis-driven roadmaps, and UX metrics).
• Operationalize design delivery through scalable processes—user research, prototyping, and design reviews.
• Partner with engineers to ensure design fidelity and high-quality implementation.
• Oversee design system implementation using tools like Figma, Storybook, and Tailwind, aligned with Oaktree’s engineering standards.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees