Vice President, Technology Tool Management

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As a part of Brookfield’s $416B credit platform, Oaktree is a premier credit manager emphasizing an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investing across credit, equity, and real estate.

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As a part of Brookfield’s $416B credit platform, Oaktree is a premier credit manager emphasizing an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investing across credit, equity, and real estate.

Oaktree is committed to cultivating an environment that is collaborative, curious, inclusive and honors diversity of thought. Providing training and career development opportunities and emphasizing strong support for our local communities through philanthropic initiatives are essential to our culture.

Oaktree is wholly owned by Brookfield, a leading global investment firm with more than $1 trillion in assets under management. Brookfield owns and operates high-quality businesses and real assets that provide essential services and form the backbone of the global economy. It invests on behalf of institutions and individuals around the world across infrastructure, renewable power and transition, private equity, real estate, and credit.

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The Vice President (VP), Tool Management is responsible for the strategy, governance, and day-to-day operations of the firm's technology tooling portfolio. Spanning software development and Dev Ops tooling as well as IT asset, license, and SaaS lifecycle management, the role ensures cost-effectiveness, compliance, and alignment to business needs. Operating within a financial services environment, the VP partners with enterprise architecture, engineering, security, procurement, vendor management, and risk teams to maximize the value and minimize the risk of the technology tool estate.

This role serves as a brand ambassador for Technology at Oaktree and the Technology Strategy & Operations team, which aims to support digital transformation, service excellence, and disciplined execution. We are an ambitious team with an entrepreneurial mindset and strive to inspire, influence, and collaborate within and across teams.

• Manage the full tool lifecycle — evaluation, selection, onboarding, standardization, rationalization, and retirement — to eliminate redundancy and reduce total cost of ownership.
• Serve as the primary technical lead for incoming tool-evaluation requests, and define and own a standard, repeatable process for evaluating, scoring, and approving new tools.
• Serve as the focal point for license strategy and allocation — governing software licensing, subscriptions, entitlements, and maintaining accurate license positions.
• Partner with Procurement and Vendor Management on contract negotiation, renewals, and vendor performance for technology tools and platforms.
• Establish and enforce tooling governance, access controls, and usage standards in line with the firm's information security and regulatory obligations.
• Participate in vendor risk assessments and remediation for tools in partnership with Information Security, Risk, and Compliance.
• Track and report on tool usage — including active-user counts and adoption per tool, spend, utilization, and ROI — to confirm value; forecast usage and spend against budget, analyze deviations and consumption patterns; partner with tool owners to identify and execute cost-optimization opportunities across the portfolio.
• Partner closely with Enterprise Architecture to ensure the tool portfolio aligns to approved technology-stack standards, reference architectures, and application-build patterns; jointly govern tool selection so new and existing tools support target-state architecture.
• Partner with teams across…