Director, Product Management - Private Credit (NewYork)

Fitch Group; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Training & mentorship programs

Tuition reimbursement

Comprehensive healthcare

Job summary

Fitch Solutions in New York seeks a Director of Product Management for Private Credit Data Products. You will own the end-to-end lifecycle, shaping datasets and workflows for private credit, including covenant analysis and AI-supported extraction.

You will work with Engineering, Data, Design, and Sales to validate with clients and drive adoption. The role emphasizes strategic leadership blended with hands-on delivery in a hybrid New York office, focusing on revenue contribution and client

Qualifications

• 7+ years in product management in financial services or FinTech.
• Hands-on experience with private credit data and workflows.
• Familiarity with the private credit lifecycle from origination to monitoring.
• Track record delivering initiatives across cross-functional teams.
• Experience applying AI/ML to data problems in production.

Responsibilities

• Own the Private Credit Data Roadmap and prioritize work.
• Lead discovery with clients and translate needs into product bets.
• Drive end-to-end delivery: requirements to release.
• Support go-to-market and partner with Sales for launches.
• Measure adoption, data quality, and revenue impact post-launch.

Skills

Product management

Private credit data

AI/ML in production

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

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Director, Product Management - Private Credit (NewYork)

Requisition ID: 50275

Business Unit: Fitch Solutions

Category: Administration

Location: New York, NY, US

Fitch Solutions is currently seeking a Product Manager, Private Credit Data Products based out of our New York office.

Fitch Solutions is a leading provider of insights, data and analytics. It informs investment strategies, strengthens risk management capabilities and helps identify strategic opportunities. Its analysts, lawyers, journalists and economists offer in-depth views on credit markets/risk and individual credits, ESG, developed and emerging markets, and industry sectors. Fitch Solutions is part of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services with operations in over 30 countries. Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.

By becoming a part of the Fitch Solutions team, you will join a group of colleagues delivering critical data, insightful research, and comprehensive analytics that empower clients to make informed decisions. You’ll work in a dynamic environment where innovation is encouraged, and collaboration is key to developing solutions that address the evolving needs of global markets. With a portfolio of best-in-class, award winning brands, we offer you the opportunity to advance your career while contributing to a company known for its expertise and commitment to excellence.

About the Role

Private credit is one of the fastest-growing corners of the capital markets, and the data infrastructure hasn’t kept up. We’re building data products that close that gap for direct lenders, CLO managers, credit funds, and institutional investors. This role owns the product direction for our Private Credit data suite, from instrument-level datasets to the workflows and platform capabilities that deliver them. You’ll partner with Engineering, Data, Design, Sales, and Customer teams to decide what to build, validate it with clients, ship it, and measure whether it worked.

The core of what we’re building: combining market-leading legal analysis with AI-supported document extraction to curate structured data products and covenant analysis workflows across US and European private credit. The product roadmap also incorporates private monitored ratings data from Fitch Ratings, creating a view of the private credit landscape that doesn’t exist today. This PM decides what ships, in what order, and how those pieces reach clients.

The ideal candidate has real private credit domain knowledge and the product instincts to turn that into data products clients depend on. You’ll own the full lifecycle: discovery, requirements, trade-offs, delivery, launch, and iteration, and you’ll be measured on adoption, data quality, revenue contribution and client satisfaction.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

Own the Private Credit Data Roadmap

Define what gets built, in what order, and why. Set OKRs tied to coverage depth, data quality SLAs, and revenue contribution. Make prioritization calls with clear rationale and documented trade-offs.

Lead Discovery and Shape What We Build

Bring deep knowledge of Private Credit markets and run continuous customer discovery with direct lenders, CLO managers, and credit funds. Translate workflow friction into product bets, not feature requests. Validate before build, measure after launch.

Ship and Iterate

Drive agile delivery end-to-end: requirements through release. Translate needs into PRDs, epics, user stories and acceptance criteria, own sprint planning, backlog sequencing, and manage delivery risk directly with Engineering and Data leadership. Own adoption and retention metrics post-launch and use them to decide what to double down on or kill.

Go-to-Market

Support product launches and sales enablement. Partner with Sales to position new capabilities and close feedback loops with clients post‑launch.

What Makes This Role Different

Private credit data doesn’t work like public markets data. Source documents are unstructured and inconsistent across originators. Coverage is never complete. Clients need speed and accuracy on instruments where neither comes easy. You’ll own the product decisions that determine how we close those gaps: what to automate, what to curate manually, where to invest in coverage vs. depth, and how to build data products that hold up when the answer isn’t in a filing.

You’ll also be working at the intersection of two assets no competitor can combine: Covenant analysis operation producing structured data from private credit agreements, and proprietary Fitch Ratings credit signals on the same borrowers. The product challenge is turning that combination into something clients use daily, not just something that looks good on a capability slide.

You May Be a Good Fit if You Have:

• 7+ years in product management, ideally in financial services, financial information services, or FinTech
• Hands‑on experience with private credit data: you know why facility‑level terms don’t standardize across direct lending docs, how amendment and PIK toggle mechanics change economics mid‑life, and why coverage and timeliness are harder in private markets than public
• Familiarity with the private credit lifecycle from origination through structuring, servicing, and amendments, including how direct lending documentation differs from broadly syndicated loan facilities. You should understand both sides of the workflow: GP‑side (origination, structuring, portfolio monitoring) and investor‑side (screening, benchmarking, regulatory reporting), because the products you build will serve both
• A track record of driving initiatives from discovery through delivery across cross‑functional teams
• Experience applying AI/ML to data problems in production: document extraction, entity resolution, automated enrichment, or anomaly detection on unstructured source material

What Would Make You Stand Out:

• Experience building or managing commercial data products in credit, loans, or private markets
• Familiarity with how AI agents consume data products: tool design, semantic APIs, entitlement‑aware retrieval vs. traditional UI‑first delivery
• Experience spanning both data products and platform/website capabilities
• Familiarity with UX/UI principles and design thinking
• You benchmark against the best private credit data products in market and know where we lead and where we don’t
• Familiarity with private credit portfolio management or loan servicing platforms (Investran, Allvue, WSO, SentryPM, or similar) and how clients use them alongside data products like ours
• Experience with data validation workflows on unstructured legal documents, including defining accuracy thresholds and quality metrics for extracted fields

Why Choose Fitch:

• Hybrid Work Environment: 3 days a week in office required based on your line of business and location
• A Culture of Learning & Mobility: Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity
• Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and long‑term goals
• Promoting Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive healthcare offerings that enable physical, mental, financial, social, and occupational wellbeing
• Supportive Parenting Policies: Family‑friendly policies, including a generous global parental leave plan, designed to help you balance career and family life effectively
• Inclusive Work Environment: A collaborative workplace where all voices are valued, with Employee Resource Groups that unite and empower our colleagues around the globe
• Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days, matched funding for donations and ample opportunities to volunteer in your community

At Fitch, AI is embedded in how we work every day, supporting smarter decision‑making, streamlining workflows, and enabling new ways to create value for our business and clients. Intelligent solutions are increasingly part of our day‑to‑day operations, helping teams work more efficiently and think differently as we continue to evolve. We’re looking for colleagues who are comfortable operating in an AI‑enabled environment or who are curious, adaptable, and eager to build their AI literacy over time. We value professionals who embrace technology as part of continuous learning and who are committed to using it thoughtfully to enhance how work gets done.

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward‑looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch’s credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interest or any appearance of a conflict of interest. Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will be asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts prior to commencing employment. If you, or your immediate family, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.

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Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $140,000 and $180,000 per year. Actual salaries will be determined on an individualized basis and may vary based on factors including but not limited to education, training, experience, past performance, and other job‑related factors. Base pay is one part of Fitch’s total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, long‑term incentives, and other benefits sponsored by Fitch.