Associate COO - Industry Research
Overview
We are seeking a strong business strategy candidate to join the Corporate Credit COO team in New York. This role directly supports the COO of Research and Investment Grade, with responsibility spanning IG and Performing Credit research, the IG credit business across public and private portfolio management, and Direct Lending. The business strategy associate will work cross-functionally with senior portfolio managers, research analysts, and business leadership across Apollo's credit investment platform to drive operational excellence, shape how the business measures and reviews its performance and ensure the platform's processes, research infrastructure, and technology evolve as the platform scales. We are looking for someone who brings deep experience scaling investment processes and workflows through technology and partnership with portfolio managers and research analysts – particularly in private credit, direct lending, or other asset classes where the operational challenges are rooted in unstructured data, document-heavy workflows, and the absence of standardized market infrastructure. The candidate should have strong operational and analytical capability with genuine curiosity about credit markets and the judgment to know which problems matter most. The candidate must be able to work independently across a complex, multi-strategy platform, move fluidly between solving a specific problem and thinking about the system that created it, and earn credibility with senior investment professionals through the quality and precision of their work.
What You'll Do9
- 1Build and drive cross-platform operational projects end-to-end translating recurring pain points into durable solutions with clear ownership governance and adoption
- 2Coordinate across research portfolio management data engineering product and technology teams to ensure business needs are understood and prioritized especially efforts to systematize processes such as credit agreement parsing covenant tracking borrower financial monitoring and pipeline data infrastructure
- 3Design infrastructure and reporting layer across asset classes that gives portfolio managers and leadership real-time visibility into research views deal status portfolio risks and performance
- 4Help design technology workstreams that cross multiple domains technology and AI actively participating in research platform and technology transformation initiatives delivering next-generation platform capabilities that support the business
- 5Drive AI adoption and integration across the IG PM and Research businesses identifying high-impact use cases supporting implementation alongside quant and technology teams and tracking adoption across the platform
- 6Help drive the business review process ensuring leadership has a clear accurate and current picture of progress against objectives own preparation of materials for business reviews risk reviews and senior leadership updates gathering inputs across teams and framing the narrative
- 7Own recurring analytical deliverables including research coverage tracking performance metrics and platform reporting
- 8Scale investment processes and workflows through technology and partnership with portfolio managers and research analysts especially in private credit direct lending or other asset classes
- 9Participate in technology workstreams that coordinate across research portfolio management data engineering product and technology teams to ensure business needs are understood and prioritized
Requirements7
- 12-5 years of experience in business strategy operations or a technology-forward role within asset management private credit or a related investment business with direct experience with direct lending or private credit strongly preferred
- 2Demonstrated track record of working alongside portfolio managers and research analysts to scale investment processes through technology
- 3Product-oriented mindset translating business and research needs into clear requirements for product and engineering teams
- 4Ability to take ownership of problems end-to-end from diagnosis through implementation and adoption with minimal oversight
- 5Strong prioritization instincts managing multiple concurrent workstreams across teams and stakeholders with minimal oversight
- 6Concise structured effective communication skills with senior investment professionals
- 7Intellectual curiosity about public and private credit markets and technical operational depth to understand how portfolio management and research processes operate and scale
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$175 - $200k per year
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