Associate, COO - Industry Research

Position Overview

We are seeking a strong business strategy candidate to join the Corporate Credit COO team in New York. This role directly supports the COO of Research and Investment Grade, with responsibility spanning IG and Performing Credit research, the IG credit business across public and private portfolio management, and Direct Lending.

The business strategy associate will work cross-functionally with senior portfolio managers, research analysts, and business leadership across Apollo's credit investment platform to drive operational excellence, shape how the business measures and reviews its performance and ensure the platform's processes, research infrastructure, and technology evolve as the platform scales.

We are looking for someone who brings deep experience scaling investment processes and workflows through technology and partnership with portfolio managers and research analysts – particularly in private credit, direct lending, or other asset classes where the operational challenges are rooted in unstructured data, document-heavy workflows, and the absence of standardized market infrastructure. The candidate should have strong operational and analytical capability with genuine curiosity about credit markets and the judgment to know which problems matter most. The candidate must be able to work independently across a complex, multi-strategy platform, move fluidly between solving a specific problem and thinking about the system that created it, and earn credibility with senior investment professionals through the quality and precision of their work.

Primary Responsibilities

The role maps directly to the core COO functions across the Corporate Credit platform:

Business Strategy & Operations

• Work across the PM and research teams to develop a deep understanding of how Apollo's credit business operates, identifying where process, structure, tooling, or resourcing gaps are creating friction or risk, and driving improvements that make the business more effective
• Own and drive cross-platform operational projects end-to-end, translating recurring pain points into durable solutions with clear ownership, governance, and adoption.
• Coordinate across research, portfolio management, data engineering, product, and technology teams to ensure business needs are understood and prioritized correctly, particularly efforts to systematize processes such as credit agreement parsing, covenant tracking, borrower financial monitoring, & pipeline data infrastructure
• Help design infrastructure and reporting layer across asset classes that gives portfolio managers and leadership real-time visibility into research views, deal status, portfolio risks, and performance
• Partner with the broader Corporate Credit COO organization on technology workstreams that cross multiple domains

Technology & AI

• Actively participate in research platform and technology transformation initiatives, partnering with product and engineering teams to deliver next-generation platform capabilities that support the business
• Help drive AI adoption and integration across the IG PM and Research businesses, identifying high-impact use cases, supporting implementation alongside the quant and technology teams, and tracking adoption across the platform

Business Reviews & Reporting

• Help drive the business review process, ensuring leadership has a clear, accurate, and current picture of progress against objectives. Own the preparation of materials for business reviews, risk reviews, and senior leadership updates, gathering inputs across teams and framing the narrative
• Own recurring analytical deliverables including research coverage tracking, performance metrics, and platform reporting

Qualifications & Experience

• 2-5 years of experience in business strategy, operations, or a technology-forward role within asset management, private credit, or a related investment business; direct experience with direct lending or private credit strongly preferred
• Demonstrated track record of working alongside portfolio managers and research analysts to scale investment processes through technology
• Product-oriented mindset: can think critically about how tools (especially AI), research workflows, and technology should work for the business, and translate business and research needs into clear requirements for product and engineering teams
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of problems end-to-end, from diagnosis through implementation and adoption, with minimal oversight
• Strong prioritization instincts and the ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams across teams and stakeholders with minimal oversight
• Strong presentation and verbal communication: concise, structured, and effective with senior investment professionals
• Intellectual curiosity about public and private credit markets and the technical and operational depth to understand how portfolio management and research processes operate and scale.

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 & 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.

Pay Range

$175,000 - $200,000

Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates) is committed to championing opportunity.

The firm and its affiliates comply with applicable discrimination and equal opportunities legislation in all of its jurisdictions and do not discriminate in employment or recruitment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

The contents of the qualifications and experience section of this job description are a guideline only. If an applicant can otherwise demonstrate their suitability for the role they will be considered.

The base salary range for this position is listed above. This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus based on personal, team, and Firm performance. Compensation ranges are based on several factors including job function, level, and geographic location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed here.