Associate Director CPS

Position Overview

ABOUT APOLLO

Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade credit to private equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. As of June 30, 2024, Apollo had approximately $696 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit www.apollo.com.

OUR PURPOSE AND CORE VALUES

Our clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be:

The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.

The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.

A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.

We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:

Outperform expectations

Challenge Convention

Champion Opportunity

Lead responsibly

Drive collaboration

As One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.

OUR BENEFITS

Apollo relies on its people to keep it a leader in alternative investment management, and the firm’s benefit programs are crafted to offer meaningful coverage for both you and your family

Apollo’s Client & Product Solutions (CPS) organization globally supports the end-to-end sales, marketing and servicing of our global investor base. CPS globally supports clients originating from large Institutional asset owner channels (ICPS) as well as individual investors and their intermediaries originating through Global Wealth Management (GWM) channels including banks and financial institutions, independent financial advisors, and family offices. CPS India teams work collectively across various functions to build capabilities that support delivering excellence at scale in our global client services, business services, digital, data & enablement (DDE) functions.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
We are seeking a senior, hands-on product leader, who will refine the product line vision, align the execution roadmap and data dependencies and work closely with partner functions to execute the multi-year vision. This individual will work closely with global product and sales stakeholders, technology teams, partner groups within DDE to develop capabilities for pre-onboarding, onboarding, and servicing phases of the client lifecycle. As a Product Owner, you will understand business needs and servicing priorities, navigate the existing product landscape and develop the target state vision and strategy for how to achieve it.
1. BI Strategy & Product Ownership
• Execute the multi-year Business Intelligence roadmap for distribution intelligence
• Align product strategy with business goals, prioritizing enhancements and managing a BI feature backlog
• Manage the end-to-end product development lifecycle for BI capabilities—from requirement gathering to delivery, change management and monitoring adoption
• Develop and track success metrics and KPIs to ensure value delivery
2. Data Intelligence & Architecture
• Lead the design and implementation of data models, pipelines, and analytics layers for sales, marketing, and distribution enablement
• Serve as a bridge between business and technology teams, translating functional needs into scalable solutions
• Oversee data quality management processes and governance to ensure high-confidence reporting
• Enable self-service analytics and scalable reporting solutions using tools like Tableau, Snowflake, Alteryx, and SQL
3. Technical & Functional SME
• Setting best practice standards for data pipeline, dashboard design and performance optimization
• Design and develop emerging tools and technologies including AI/Machine Learning and LLM applications
• Partner with CRM and data teams to augment our analytics capabilities front to back
• Develop and execute change management plans including stakeholder alignment, communication strategy, training sessions, and documentation
• Proactively identify process or reporting gaps and lead cross-functional initiatives to close them
• Drive and run transformation projects, stay abreast with latest technology trends, evaluate and onboard new tools to enable scale

Qualifications & Experience

• 8–12 years’ experience in analytics or product management roles, ideally in asset management, with a proven track record as a hands-on product owner
• Strong background in BI tools and data platforms (e.g., Tableau, Snowflake, SQL, Alteryx, Salesforce)
• High data literacy, analysis techniques, and ability to communicate insights to drive collective decision-making
• Good understanding of data science, machine learning, and generative AI concepts and application in business
• Experience managing SDLC, backlog prioritization, agile delivery cycles, and stakeholder management
• Organized and effective execution – set and manage expectations, model work ethic, proactively manage efforts across multiple teams, rigorously communicate
• Excellent documentation, analytical, and reasoning skills (e.g., adheres to best practices in meeting management, regularly completes tasks and conducts business with minimal supervision).
• Self-starter with a strong work ethic and genuine willingness to learn, results-oriented, and highly accountable
• Strong interpersonal skills to interact effectively with various internal and external constituents
• Flexible with working hours and time zones

Apollo provides equal employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, veteran status, gender/sex or sexual orientation, or any other criterion or circumstance protected by applicable law, ordinance, or regulation. The above criteria are intended to be used as a guide only – candidates who do not meet all the above criteria may still be considered if they are deemed to have relevant experience/ equivalent levels of skill or knowledge to fulfil the requirements of the role. Any job offer will be conditional upon and subject to satisfactory reference and background screening checks, all necessary corporate and regulatory approvals or certifications as required from time to time, and entering into definitive contractual documentation satisfactory to Apollo.