Product Manager, Global Credit Portfolio Management

Company Profile

The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with $485 billion of assets under management, across 678 investment vehicles as of June 30, 2026. Founded in 1987 in Washington, DC, Carlyle has grown into one of the world's largest and most successful investment firms, with more than 2,500 professionals operating in 28 offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.

Carlyle's purpose is to connect people, ideas, and capital to fuel growth for companies and performance for investors, which range from public and private pension funds to wealthy individuals and families to sovereign wealth funds, unions and corporations. Carlyle invests across three segments - Global Private Equity, Global Credit and Carlyle AlpInvest - and has deep expertise across industries, markets, and geographies.

At Carlyle, we believe that a wide spectrum of experiences and viewpoints drives performance and success. Our CEO, Harvey Schwartz, has stated that, "To build better businesses and create value for all of our stakeholders, we are focused on assembling leadership teams with the strongest insights from a range of perspectives." Reflecting this view, emphasis is placed on development, retention and inclusion through our internal processes and seven Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). We cultivate a culture where ideas are openly shared and challenged, connecting diverse expertise and perspectives to drive enduring value.

Position Summary

This Product Manager role is responsible for defining and shaping the technology strategy for the Portfolio Management Domain within Global Credit, with a focus on Private Credit (Direct Lending and Opportunistic Credit), Asset Backed Financing (ABF), Real Assets, and Cross-Platform funds.

The Product Manager will partner closely with senior business leaders across Portfolio Management, Fund Management, Operations, and Compliance-and with other product managers in adjacent Credit domains-to ensure platforms enable effective portfolio management, operational efficiency, and robust risk management. Success hinges on tight collaboration across domains and translating strategic needs into actionable roadmaps and adopted solutions.

Key functions include:

• Define and communicate the product vision and roadmap for the Portfolio Management Domain.
• Shape business architecture and influence roadmaps to ensure scalability, integration, and data quality.
• Drive and measure product adoption through engagement, enablement, and change management.
• Lead proactive resource planning and capacity management to support balanced delivery.
• Provide program updates and executive communications on priorities, milestones, and risks.
• Manage vendor relationships, ensuring accountability and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Oversee end-to-end product delivery, unblocking execution when required.
• Act as a subject matter expert in Private Credit, ABF, and portfolio management workflows.
• Champion process improvement and standardization across portfolio management.
• Collaborate with other Global Credit product managers to ensure integrated, cross-domain delivery.
• Perform buy-vs-build assessments and provide technical and vendor oversight to ensure execution excellence.
• Strong working knowledge of JIRA, including creating and managing tickets, maintaining backlogs, tracking priorities and dependencies, documenting requirements and acceptance criteria, and driving issues through resolution.

Primary Responsibilities

Strategy & Vision - 25%

• Partner with senior leaders in Private Credit, ABF, Real Assets, and Cross-Platform funds to translate business strategy into actionable domain initiatives.
• Ensure the Portfolio Management Domain strategy supports business growth, efficiency, and risk management.
• Align domain initiatives with firmwide data and reporting standards, collaborating with Enterprise Data and other domains.

Stakeholder Engagement - 25%

• Serve as a trusted advisor to portfolio management leaders, providing insights into technology options and tradeoffs.
• Facilitate alignment between business and technology through steering committees, demos, and working groups.
• Build consensus across functions when competing priorities arise and ensure transparency into decision-making.

Product Requirements, Technology Oversight & Delivery - 30%

• Lead agile delivery teams in executing initiatives, ensuring timely, high-quality outcomes.
• Balance strategic transformation projects with ongoing production needs.
• Oversee requirements practices ensuring business needs are translated into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with technology leads to optimizing delivery and team processes.
• Measure adoption and business impact of delivered solutions and adapt roadmaps accordingly.

Process Support - 20%

• Maintain governance processes for intake, prioritization, and delivery in alignment with senior stakeholders.
• Ensure business cases, value analyses, and charters clearly define scope, outcomes, and costs.
• Document domain processes and identify opportunities for simplification and automation.

Requirements

Education & Certificates

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Concentration in accounting, finance or relevant business domains field is strongly preferred.

Professional Experience

• 6+ years overall relevant technical experience ,required
• Experience in product management, product ownership, or business analyst experience in financial services, preferred
• Extensive expertise in Private Credit (Direct Lending, Opportunistic Credit), ABF, Real Assets, and Cross-Platform funds, preferred
• Demonstrated success engaging senior stakeholders and managing competing priorities.
• Experience leading cross-functional delivery teams in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Familiarity with portfolio management platforms and order management systems strongly preferred.
• Experience in managing technology vendors and technology teams.
• Familiarity with technology development lifecycle.

Competencies & Attributes

• Self-starter with strong accountability, ownership, and ability to influence outcomes while fostering team success.
• Proven ability to define and communicate a product vision and translate it into execution.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills, with the ability to build consensus across domains.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts for business and technology audiences.
• Experience writing requirements and documenting business processes.

Benefits/Compensation

The compensation range for this role is specific to New York and takes into account a wide range of factors including but not limited to the skill sets required/preferred; prior experience and training; licenses and/or certifications.

The anticipated base salary range for this role is $180,000 to $200,000.

In addition to the base salary, the hired professional will enjoy a comprehensive benefits package spanning retirement benefits, health insurance, life insurance and disability, paid time off, paid holidays, family planning benefits and various wellness programs. Additionally, the hired professional may also be eligible to participate in an annual discretionary incentive program, the award of which will be dependent on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

Due to the high volume of candidates, please be advised that only candidates selected to interview will be contacted by Carlyle.

Who We Are

When people, ideas, and capital come together, opportunity expands across private markets. At Carlyle, this belief has shaped how we invest for decades, fueling growth for companies and delivering performance for investors.

Visit our website to learn more about our firm and the ways our platform is shaping private markets.