Hedge Fund Product Lead

Olive Asset Management is the overseas asset management platform of Noah Holdings (NYSE: NOAH; HKEX: 6686), a leading wealth and asset management group serving high-net-worth individuals and institutional clients worldwide.

Olive specializes in alternative investments across private equity, hedge funds, and direct investments. As part of Noah Holdings’ global platform, Olive combines institutional-grade investment processes with deep client insights to deliver differentiated alternative investment solutions.

We are hiring a Hedge Fund Product Lead based in the United States, either in New York or Palo Alto
, to lead Olive Asset Management’s hedge fund product franchise end to end.

This is a hands‑on investment leadership role with a clear mandate: build a multi‑strategy hedge fund product architecture, source and screen hedge fund managers rigorously, convert high‑conviction ideas into platform products through commercial negotiation, and maintain disciplined ongoing investment monitoring.

Success in this role will depend less on pure sales coverage and more on product selection judgment, manager access, investment due diligence capabilities, and the ability to work closely with internal and external stakeholders across the U.S. and Asia.

The successful candidate will personally drive manager research and due diligence, lead a team of approximately 5–8 professionals, and partner closely with risk, legal, compliance, operations, and distribution teams.

• Design and continuously refine a full‑spectrum hedge fund product strategy framework across major strategy categories, including equity long/short, global macro, multi‑strategy, credit, quantitative, event‑driven, and relative value.
• Establish clear product selection criteria, portfolio construction principles, and platform allocation logic aligned with client risk profiles and market regimes.
• Own the long‑term hedge fund product roadmap in partnership with senior investment leadership and international product stakeholders.
• Proactively source, identify, and screen global hedge fund managers, with a focus on institutional‑quality GPs.
• Conduct rigorous manager due diligence across investment process, risk management, operational infrastructure, track‑record integrity, capacity, and alignment of interest.
• Build, maintain, and expand a high‑quality network of relationships with leading hedge fund managers and industry intermediaries to support a continuous product pipeline.
• Lead qualitative and quantitative screening across primary opportunities and, where relevant, fund of hedge funds or multi‑manager structures.
• Form independent investment views and present clear, decision‑ready recommendations to investment committees and senior stakeholders.

• Own the full product introduction lifecycle, from initial manager engagement through investment committee approval, documentation, and platform onboarding.
• Lead commercial negotiations on fees, terms, capacity reservations, side letters, and other commercial arrangements to secure favorable outcomes for clients and the firm.
• Coordinate cross‑functional work streams across legal, compliance, operations, risk, and distribution to support controlled and efficient product launches across relevant jurisdictions.

• Design and operate ongoing monitoring frameworks covering performance attribution, risk exposures, style drift, operational changes, liquidity, and key‑person risk.
• Lead regular manager reviews, follow‑up due diligence, and escalation processes when material issues arise.
• Produce concise investment theses, monitoring reports, and hold / add / redeem recommendations for internal stakeholders and client‑facing teams.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team focused on hedge fund research, product selection, and platform management.
• Partner with distribution and client coverage teams on product education and sales enablement, ensuring recommendations remain aligned with suitability and applicable regulatory requirements.
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