Forward Deployed Investor

9Fin; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

9fin seeks a Forward Deployed Investor to work with buy-side clients and translate investment workflows into AI-enabled processes. You will sit with portfolio managers, credit underwriters, and distressed analysts to show how 9fin can unlock hidden value through data-driven insights.

You will map sourcing, screening, underwriting, and monitoring workflows, co-author adoption criteria, and lead deployment across accounts. This role shapes product direction through frontline client feedback.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of practitioner experience at asset manager, credit fund, or insurer.
• Fluency across end-to-end investment workflows in your area.
• Experience with AI-enabled investment workflows is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Map investment workflows and identify high-value insertion points.
• Embed with client teams to document sourcing, screening, underwriting, credit committee, portfolio monitoring, and relative value work end-to-end.
• Identify three to five places where 9fin's AI can materially change the workflow.
• Co-author adoption criteria with the client, tied to their investment outcomes.
• Build 9fin's AI into those workflows and drive adoption across accounts.
• Take the identified insertion points and build them out using 9fin's toolkit (in-platform capabilities, MCP integrations, agents).
• Onboard named users across investment, research, and risk and run enablement sessions.

Skills

Credit portfolio management

High yield

Leveraged loan

Multi-strategy credit investing

Private credit & direct lending

CLO investing

Distressed credit analysis

Investment data / AI in finance

End-to-end investment workflows

Buy-side transformation

Job description

About 9fin 9fin

is the AI platform powering global debt markets - the world's largest asset class at over $145 trillion. Debt markets are vast, global, and mission-critical, yet still run on fragmented data, PDFs, and manual workflows. 9fin replaces this broken infrastructure with a single platform that centralises proprietary credit data, deep analysis, and high-value workflows across global markets. Today, 9fin powers teams at 300+ blue-chip institutions worldwide, including global banks, asset managers, private equity firms, law firms, and advisors. The business is scaling at exceptional speed, with rapid expansion in the US and best-in-class retention driven by deep workflow adoption. We're at a defining inflection point. With proven product-market fit and strong, global market pull, 9fin is accelerating toward becoming the category-defining platform for debt markets worldwide.

The Role

9fin's buy-side clients are the capital behind the credit markets. Credit funds, CLO managers, private credit platforms, and distressed investors run research, underwriting, portfolio monitoring, and relative value workflows that are deep and specialised. They are actively excited about what AI can unlock. Our job is to make that potential real inside their investment teams. The Forward Deployed Investor is the person who does it. You are a domain expert who has done the work yourself, and you can credibly sit across the table from a portfolio manager, a private credit underwriter, or a distressed analyst and say: "Here is how this changes the way you invest." You will work with 9fin's most strategic buy‑side clients, drive deep adoption of our existing AI capabilities across the investment process, and become a critical voice in shaping what we build next. Every client engagement is a source of product intelligence. The insights you bring back from the front line will directly influence 9fin's AI product roadmap and sharpen how we win the next generation of buy‑side accounts.

What You Will Do

• Map investment workflows and find the highest-value insertion points.
• Embed with client teams to document how sourcing, screening, underwriting, credit committee preparation, portfolio monitoring, and relative value work actually gets done end-to-end.
• Identify the three to five places where 9fin's AI can materially change the workflow.
• Co-author adoption success criteria with the client, tied to their investment outcomes.
• Build 9fin's AI into those workflows.
• Take the identified insertion points and build them out using 9fin's toolkit: in-platform capabilities, MCP integrations, agents, and future capabilities as they ship. Weighted by workflow depth, not count.
• Iterate based on real usage behaviour, not intended usage.
• Drive adoption at your served accounts.
• Onboard named users across investment, research, and risk.
• Run enablement sessions with power users, identify and support champions inside the client.
• Monitor active usage and address dormant seats before they become churn signals.
• Review adoption monthly with client champions and quarterly with the CIO, head of research, or equivalent sponsor.
• Feed the field back into 9fin.
• Every deployment produces structured intelligence, fed to two consumers. First, product and engineering: prioritised requests tied to specific account and workflow context, patterns extracted across deployments. Second, the wider GTM cycle: case studies, demo assets, workflow evidence, and competitive intelligence that sharpen the next GTM cycle.
• Spot expansion.
• Identify opportunities inside served accounts for new users, new use cases, new departments, or new products.
• Document with context and hand to Account Management for commercial follow‑up.

What You Bring

You are a subject matter expert with 3+ years of practitioner experience at an asset manager, credit fund, or insurer, with fluency across end-to-end investment workflows in your area, not just the data those workflows consume.

• Credit portfolio management and research.
• High yield, leveraged loan, or multi‑strategy credit investing, covering screening, underwriting, credit committee process, and ongoing portfolio monitoring.
• Private credit and direct lending. Origination, underwriting, documentation review, or portfolio monitoring at a private credit or direct lending platform.
• CLO investing. CLO management, warehouse and portfolio construction, or CLO debt and equity tranche investing.
• Distressed and special situations. Stressed and distressed credit analysis, restructuring and process tracking, documentation and covenant analysis, or capital structure work.
• Buy‑side transformation, data, or research technology functions. Investment data, quantitative or systematic credit research, chief data office, digital transformation, or AI strategy roles where you have led or contributed to AI and workflow transformation projects specifically.