Vice President, Product Manager - GCO & Fund Accounting

Oaktree Capital Management•Los Angeles, CA

60d

About The Position

Oaktree is seeking a Vice President, Product Management to play a key leadership role in shaping and advancing Oaktree Capital's Compliance, Risk & Legal platforms that support the management of the firm's public and private investments. In addition, this role will partner with the fund accounting team to enhance solutions for their employees. This individual will be responsible for defining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for technology and data solutions that enable Compliance, Risk & Legal processes Working closely with Compliance, Risk, Legal & fund accounting professionals, operations, data, and technology teams, the Vice President will translate business needs into scalable platform capabilities that enhance transparency, performance insight, and risk management. This role requires a deep understanding of investment processes, both public and private markets, paired with strong product management expertise and a track record of delivering complex, enterprise-grade solutions in a financial services environment. This is a high-impact position that combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution, ensuring Oaktree's investment platforms continue to evolve to meet the firm's growing and diverse investment needs.

Requirements

Minimum of 8 years of experience in finance technology implementation platforms
Knowledge of Compliance, Risk & Legal workflows within the asset management industry
Working knowledge of fund accounting workflows and industry platforms
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
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.