KBRA Direct Lending and Private Markets - Product Owner (NY)

Position Title: KBRA Direct Lending and Private Markets - Product Owner (NY)

Entity: KBRA Analytics, LLC

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: New York, NY

Summary/Overview:

The Product Owner will play a key role in supporting the Head of KBRA Direct Lending and Private Markets, driving the execution of product strategies and turning ideas into reality. This role requires a deep understanding of direct lending, private markets, and B2B product management. The Product Owner will manage the development and delivery of innovative solutions, ensuring alignment with market needs and organizational goals. The role encompasses responsibilities for building internal capabilities to support staff in curating content and developing products that users enjoy using, with a focus on exceptional user experiences. The ideal candidate is self-motivated, knowledgeable about the domain, and capable of independently bringing ideas to life to allow the business head to focus on strategic initiatives like content creation and identifying new opportunities.

This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and driven individual to contribute to KBRA’s growing Direct Lending and Private Markets business. As a Product Owner, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of KBRA’s products and internal processes, working at the intersection of innovation, strategy, and execution to enhance team productivity, organizational success, and user satisfaction.

Key Job Requirements:

• Product Strategy and Execution: Collaborate with the business head to define and implement product strategies, ensuring they align with broader business objectives and market opportunities.
• Product Roadmap: Develop and maintain a comprehensive product roadmap, securing executive buy-in and guiding product development efforts.
• Requirements Gathering: Work closely with internal stakeholders to define product requirements, including user stories, acceptance criteria, and workflow maps. Ensure alignment with team capabilities and organizational goals.
• Product Development: Oversee product development initiatives, managing cross-functional teams and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality solutions for both external-facing products and internal tools.
• UI/UX Collaboration: Work closely with UI/UX designers to ensure the development of intuitive, engaging, and user-friendly products that enhance the user experience.
• Team Leadership: Lead and collaborate with a team of engineers, ensuring alignment with the product roadmap and driving the successful execution of technical initiatives. Advocate for dedicated engineering resources for DLD-specific product development.
• Vendor Management: Identify and engage with third-party vendors and platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks) to integrate solutions that enhance internal capabilities.
• Agile Practices: Lead agile processes, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and daily stand-ups, ensuring effective collaboration and delivery.
• Capability Awareness: Understand capabilities across the organization’s various pods, leveraging established patterns and capabilities to accelerate development and improve efficiency.
• Usage Insights: Utilize tools like Datadog and Pendo to analyze usage insights from internal tools, translating findings into potential roadmap features and presenting recommendations to the business head.
• Content Curation Support: Build internal capabilities and processes that enable staff to efficiently curate and manage content for external-facing products.
• Process Optimization: Ensure that product enhancements improve internal processes, address operational inefficiencies, and enhance team productivity.

Key Highlights of Role Impact:

• Enhance internal tools and processes to improve operational efficiency and support content curation for external products.
• Develop user-friendly and engaging products through close collaboration with UI/UX teams.
• Translate complex business needs into actionable product requirements and deliverables.

Key Skills/Experience:

• 7+ years of experience.  
• Proven experience in product management within the private markets and direct lending sectors.
• Strong understanding of the private markets investment lifecycle, including asset classes such as private equity, and private credit.
• Familiarity with modern data technologies such as Snowflake and Databricks.