Product Lead - Private Credit (Direct Lending)

Role overview

Product Lead - Private Credit (Direct Lending) at Arcesium

Preferred qualifications and skills

• <li>5+ years of hands-on private credit experience, with meaningful exposure to the lifecycle, documentation, calculations, and workflows of private credit investments; product management experience is an advantage.</li>
• <li>Ability to work directly with data; SQL experience is strongly preferred, with familiarity in scripting, APIs, or low-code tools an advantage.</li>
• <li>Experience with platforms such as Wall Street Office, Allvue, Solvas, iLEVEL, or similar systems, preferred.</li>
• <li>Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, engineering, computer science, or a related field preferred; CFA, CA, MBA, FRM, or similar qualifications are an advantage.</li>

Employment details

• Location: Hyderabad

About the employer

• <p>Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions.
• We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.</p></div><p>Arcesium seeks a Product Lead with deep private credit expertise to build and evolve our Private Credit capabilities.
• <p><strong>Recruiting Security<br></strong>Emails from genuine Arcesium recruiters who are employees of the company will always come from the @arcesium.com domain.
• <p><em>Arcesium is an equal opportunity employer.</em></p></div>

Additional role details

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• <h2><strong>Company Overview</strong></h2>
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• We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow’s challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes. </p>
• <p>Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation.
• Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities.
• This is an individual contributor role, working closely with Engineering, Client & Partner Development, Sales, and Marketing.
• The product spans the deal-close and post-close lifecycle, including deal onboarding, portfolio monitoring, covenant and borrowing-base management, loan administration, reporting, and related workflows.</p>
• <p><strong>What you'll do:</strong></p>
• <ul>
• <li>Execute the Private Credit product roadmap, translating product strategy, client needs, and domain knowledge into requirements and prioritized capabilities.</li>
• <li>Own product definition and design, working with Engineering and QA through development, testing, launch, and iteration.</li>
• <li>Work with clients and design partners to validate product direction and translate recurring needs into scalable capabilities.</li>
• <li>Develop business scenarios, test cases, and validation models to ensure the product handles real-world private credit structures and calculations correctly.</li>
• <li>Take new capabilities from prototype through production readiness and broader client adoption.</li>
• <li>Partner with Sales, Pre-Sales, Forward Deployed, and Marketing on positioning, demonstrations, client discussions, and go-to-market.</li>
• <li>Contribute to competitive analysis, business cases, and prioritization of R&D investments.</li>
• <li>Prototype workflows, calculations, and automation using AI-assisted coding and modern development tools.</li>
• <li>Define AI-enabled capabilities for interpreting credit agreements, compliance certificates, borrower reporting, trustee reports, and other private credit documents.</li>
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• <p><strong>What you'll need:</strong></p>
• <li>Strong depth in one or more areas of private credit, with direct lending experience particularly valuable; experience in asset-based finance, structured credit, or adjacent credit strategies is also relevant — spanning unitranche, senior or subordinated lending, delayed-draw facilities, revolvers, asset-based lending, specialty finance, CRE lending, ABS, CLOs, or loan portfolios.</li>
• <li>Working knowledge of covenant monitoring and testing, compliance certificates, breaches, waivers, and amendments; borrowing bases, advance rates, collateral eligibility, concentration limits, and reserves; and loan lifecycle events including drawdowns, paydowns, prepayments, PIK, OID, assignments, and participations.</li>
• <li>Familiarity with cash waterfalls, priority of payments, OC/IC tests, triggers, and portfolio or collateral surveillance.</li>
• <li>Ability to read credit agreements and related reporting and determine what a product needs to capture, calculate, validate, and monitor.</li>
• <li>Strong Excel and financial-modeling skills, including independent validation of covenants, borrowing bases, waterfalls, or similar calculations.</li>
• <li>Experience with generative AI tools for prototyping, or a demonstrated aptitude to use them effectively.</li>
• <li>Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to explain complex credit concepts clearly.</li>
• <p>Arcesium's Personal Data Privacy Notice for Candidates is linked <a href="https://cdn.builder.io/api/v1/assets/8279000be2e444159cf06fa2a0d2c664/2026-07-16-personal-data-privacy-policy-candidates.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p> </p>
• In some cases, you may also be contacted by independent search firms engaged to recruit on our behalf; emails from their employees should always come from their firm's applicable domain.
• We'll never ask for your banking information or any payment as part of the recruiting process.
• If something seems off or you're contacted by an unexpected third party, please reach out to us at <a href="mailto:careers@arcesium.com">careers@arcesium.com (US/UK),</a> <a href="mailto:careers-india@arcesium.com">careers-india@arcesium.com (India) </a>or <a href="mailto:careers-europe@arcesium.com">careers-europe@arcesium.com (Portugal/Sweden)</a>. </p>