Managing Director, Head of Market Structure & Platform Development – ACS

Position Overview

Apollo is a high‑growth, global alternative asset manager building foundational infrastructure for the private credit market. The AAT group is seeking a senior leader to scale market‑structure initiatives and commercialize the platform across the private credit ecosystem. The role reports to senior ACS leadership and interfaces with investment, trading, operations, legal, compliance, investor relations, regulatory affairs, and senior management teams.

• Own the Apollo side of the ICE Private Credit Intelligence partnership end‑to‑end: product development, data standards, go‑to‑market execution, and commercial strategy.
• Build and manage the document supply pipeline with centralized, consistent, automated delivery of deal documents to ICE for data extraction.
• Manage the transition of a securities master evolution from manual data entry to AI‑assisted data validation, reframing the workflow improvement role.
• Lead Apollo’s market‑structure strategy across the full stack of infrastructure required for private credit to scale, including data standardization (ICE), index development, secondary trading infrastructure, and digital transfer and settlement.
• Contribute to the continued evolution of Apollo’s secondary trading capabilities, ensuring that data infrastructure, pricing transparency, and settlement innovation reinforce each other.
• Serve as the primary interface between the infrastructure initiative and senior ACS/AAT leadership, providing clear reporting on milestones, adoption metrics, partnership status, and strategic decisions requiring escalation.
• Coordinate across trading, portfolio management, legal, compliance, operations, technology, investor relations, and insurance teams, recognizing that internal adoption across these constituencies is as critical as external enrollment.
• Translate between the language of markets (how traders and PMs think) and the language of infrastructure, influencing how platforms need to be built, governed, and commercialized.

• 15+ years of experience in private credit, leveraged finance, or structured credit markets, with meaningful time spent in both investment/trading roles and operational/infrastructure roles.
• Direct experience in portfolio management, trading, or origination of private credit assets; understand the asset class from the perspective of someone who has managed risk, not only processed transactions.
• Demonstrated track record of building something from zero to one: a new business line, platform, or operational capability. This is a build‑out role, not a maintenance role.
• Strong commercial instinct with experience designing business models, incentive structures, or go‑to‑market strategies; comfort owning a P&L and managing the transition from investment phase to revenue generation.
• Deep understanding of private credit operational mechanics: assignment agreements, settlement workflows, agent processes, and the full lifecycle from origination through secondary transfer and servicing.
• Ability to hold external partners accountable while delivering on internal commitments.
• Experience working with or across admin agents, custodians, fund administrators, servicers, and data providers; understanding the operational pain points at each node in the private credit ecosystem.
• Experience with market structure development or infrastructure buildouts in adjacent asset classes (e.g., syndicated loans, CLOs, ABS); familiarity with LSTA protocols, Clear Par, LXID/CUSIP infrastructure, or similar market utilities strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with data licensing and information services business models in financial markets.
• Entrepreneurial, collaborative, and solutions‑oriented with strong communication skills and high execution discipline; comfortable operating with significant ambiguity in a fast‑moving environment.

Base salary range: $500,000 plus discretionary annual bonus based on personal, team, and firm performance. Compensation ranges are based on 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.

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