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Los Angeles, California, United States
Onsite
Our Company
As a part of Brookfield’s $416B credit platform, Oaktree is a premier credit manager emphasizing an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investing across credit, equity, and real estate.
Oaktree is 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.
Oaktree is wholly owned by Brookfield, a leading global investment firm with more than $1 trillion in assets under management. Brookfield owns and operates high-quality businesses and real assets that provide essential services and form the backbone of the global economy. It invests on behalf of institutions and individuals around the world across infrastructure, renewable power and transition, private equity, real estate, and credit.
For additional information, please visit Oaktree’s website at http://www.oaktreecapital.com/
Summary
We are looking for a Vice President to join our newly formed Product Engineering group. This is a senior individual contributor who will be instrumental in building the next-generation platform for Oaktree's credit business -- one of the firm's largest and most complex investment strategies.
A note on title: Vice President is an internal title common across the financial industry. In terms of scope and expectations, this role is most comparable to a Senior or Staff Engineer at a technology company. We may update the title to reflect this more directly, but the substance of the role is what matters -- this is a hands-on, code-every-day engineering position. You will be deep in the codebase, building systems, solving hard problems, and shipping software. If you're looking for a role where you direct work rather than do it, this isn't it.
You will build data-intensive applications that sit at the heart of how Oaktree sources, analyzes, and manages credit investments -- from the data pipelines and integration layers underneath to the interfaces that investment professionals use every day. The scope is the full stack of the platform: ingestion, transformation, analytics, and the tools that put insights into the hands of the people making decisions. The goal is concrete -- help Oaktree's credit business scale well beyond $200 billion in AUM by building technology that makes our investment professionals faster, sharper, and more effective.
We don't have traditional product managers. You'll work directly with business stakeholders and leadership to understand goals, translate them into well-scoped engineering work, and own delivery. This means you need to be comfortable operating in ambiguity, talking to users, understanding their workflows, and making sound prioritization decisions without a PM handing you a spec.
We are modernizing our architecture and technology stack in the cloud. The vision and direction are established -- we're not starting from zero or chasing the bleeding edge. We are building a system that is battle-tested, mature, and powerful: proven patterns, reliable technologies, and architecture that will hold up under the weight of a growing global credit business. Within that framework, you'll have real influence. You'll help shape how the platform evolves, advocate for approaches grounded in your experience, challenge assumptions constructively, and bring strong opinions to the table about the components and subsystems you own. This is a collaborative environment where your perspective matters -- but one where we value pragmatism and durability over novelty. Our environment is Azure-based, but what matters most is that you've operated at scale in at least one major cloud platform and can bring that experience forward.
We emphasize the use of grounded generative AI throughout our engineering and product workflows. You should be excited about applying AI practically -- not as a novelty, but as a core tool for building better software and delivering more value to users.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Personal Attributes
* Outstanding organization skills with high attention to detail;
* Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills;
* Outstanding initiative and a strong work ethic;
* Responsible with a strong sense of dedication;
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills;
* Works well under pressure and with time constraints; and
* Flexible and team-orientated with strong integrity and professionalism.
Education
Base Salary Range
$190,000-$225,000
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. The base salary offered will be commensurate with experience and/or qualifications, industry knowledge and expertise, as well as prior training and education.
Equal Opportunity Employment Policy
Oaktree is committed to diversity and to equal opportunity employment. Oaktree does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present physical or mental disability, HIV status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran status, military service, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic violence victim status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state and local laws and ordinances. This policy applies to hiring, placement, internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, recruitment advertising, transfers, demotions, layoffs, terminations, recruitment advertising, rates of pay and other forms of compensation and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment. This policy applies to all Oaktree applicants, employees, clients, and contractors. Staff members wishing to report violations or suspected violations of this policy should contact the head of their department or Human Resources.
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