Product Lead - Private Credit (Direct Lending)

The role

This individual contributor will build and evolve Private Credit capabilities. You will execute the product roadmap and work with Engineering, Sales, and Marketing to manage the deal-close and post-close lifecycle.

What you will do

• Execute the Private Credit product roadmap
• Own product definition and design through development, testing, launch, and iteration
• Work with clients and design partners to validate product direction
• Develop business scenarios, test cases, and validation models
• Take new capabilities from prototype through production readiness
• Partner with Sales, Pre-Sales, Forward Deployed, and Marketing on go-to-market
• Contribute to competitive analysis and prioritization of R&D investments
• Prototype workflows, calculations, and automation using AI-assisted coding
• Define AI-enabled capabilities for interpreting private credit documents

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on private credit experience
• Meaningful exposure to the lifecycle, documentation, calculations, and workflows of private credit investments
• Working knowledge of covenant monitoring and testing, compliance certificates, breaches, waivers, and amendments
• Working knowledge of borrowing bases, advance rates, collateral eligibility, concentration limits, and reserves
• Working knowledge of loan lifecycle events including drawdowns, paydowns, prepayments, PIK, OID, assignments, and participations
• Familiarity with cash waterfalls, priority of payments, OC/IC tests, triggers, and portfolio or collateral surveillance
• Ability to read credit agreements and related reporting
• Strong Excel and financial-modeling skills
• Ability to work directly with data
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• Product management experience
• Direct lending experience
• Experience in asset-based finance, structured credit, or adjacent credit strategies
• SQL experience
• Familiarity in scripting, APIs, or low-code tools
• Experience with platforms such as Wall Street Office, Allvue, Solvas, iLEVEL, or similar systems
• Experience with generative AI tools for prototyping
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, engineering, computer science, or a related field
• CFA, CA, MBA, FRM, or similar qualifications

About the company

Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions.