Real Estate Credit - Office COO, Associate​/Principal

Real Estate Credit - Office of the COO, Associate/ Principal

New York

KKR is a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management as well as capital markets and insurance solutions. KKR aims to generate attractive investment returns by following a patient and disciplined investment approach, employing world-class people, and supporting growth in its portfolio companies and communities. KKR sponsors investment funds that invest in private equity, credit and real assets and has strategic partners that manage hedge funds.

KKR’s insurance subsidiaries offer retirement, life and reinsurance products under the management of Global Atlantic Financial Group. References to KKR’s investments may include the activities of its sponsored funds and insurance subsidiaries.

KKR Real Estate Credit was formed in 2015 to invest in real estate credit products and complement KKR Real Estate’s private equity platforms in the U.S. and Western Europe. KKR Real Estate Credit is an integrated real estate credit business that invests in loans and securities across the risk spectrum, from core through opportunistic. KKR Real Estate Credit has approximately $42 billion of AUM as of December 31, 2024, and invests primarily through six main pools of capital.

KKR has developed a dedicated investment services platform, K-Star Asset Management LLC (“K-Star”), to support asset management, loan origination and underwriting, securities investing, risk management, and client experience for KKR Real Estate Credit as it continues to scale. The K-Star team includes industry specialists in special servicing, asset management, due diligence, and loan closing, among other functional areas.

KKR Real Estate Credit’s investment philosophy begins with the broader investment approach that KKR has employed for four decades. KKR is a long-term fundamental investor focused on value creation and producing attractive risk-adjusted returns. Within KKR Real Estate Credit, we seek opportunities where we have a sourcing, underwriting or execution advantage by leveraging KKR’s brand, industry knowledge and relationships. Our experienced team is complemented by a deep bench of investment professionals in KKR’s private equity, real assets, credit and capital markets businesses, among others, that allow us to employ a differentiated approach to investing.

KKR Real Estate Credit is seeking to hire a senior professional to join the Office of the COO to help drive continued growth and scaling of the business.

Work across the department in a variety of core capacities, including:

• Streamline and lead fund liquidity management, stand up a portfolio management function for debt fund strategy, build out and manage asset optimization and risk management across all segments of portfolio construction

• Manage preparation for quarterly board meetings and earnings calls
• Ensure preparation of regular financial reporting in partnership with Finance team
• Execute on strategic growth initiatives to broaden the ownership base

• Coordinate with finance teams and KCM to optimize and manage facilities to match scale and needs of multiple capital sources; maintain and grow counter party relationships to drive best in class financing and develop syndication strategies

• Work with KKR Products team to accelerate delivery of critical tools, prioritizing business needs accordingly
• Devise solutions to improve efficiency across data and risk management, and increase reporting capabilities. Partner with engineering team in the implementation of such solutions

• Overall responsibility for helping to oversee critical aspects of the business unit’s operations
• Interface as well as build meaningful partnerships with both investing and non-investing KKR functional teams and key stakeholders (asset management, client solutions, investor relations, finance, technology, compliance) that work in support of the RE credit business to help enable the success of the platform
• Serve as a thought partner and…