Corporate Operations & Strategy - Technology-Enabled ...

Blue Owl (NYSE: OWL) is a leading asset manager that is redefining alternatives®. With over $250 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2024, we invest across three multi-strategy platforms: Credit, GP Strategic Capital, and Real Assets. Anchored by astrong permanent capital base, we provide businesses with private capital solutions to drive long-term growth and offer institutional investors, individual investors, and insurance companiesdifferentiated alternative investment opportunities that aim to deliver strong performance, risk-adjusted returns, and capital preservation.Together with over 1,100 experienced professionals globally, Blue Owl brings the vision and discipline to create the exceptional. To learn more, visit Role: The Corporate Operations & Strategy team is a fast-paced and dynamic team that works across Blue Owl globally to enable efficient, effective, and scalable operations. This lean team supports our Chief Operating Officer in driving the firm's mission of being a best-in-class investment shop where people like to come to work.We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced strategist to join our team and focus on technology enablement & strategic operations. In this role, you will be responsible for partnering with stakeholders across the platform to optimally identify and onboard technology and market data initiatives that power the firm's connected enterprise. You will serve as a preeminent partner to Technology and to Operations in this role.Responsibilities:Cross-Functional TechnologyMarket Data Selection: Lead the Request for Proposal (RFP) process for selecting new technologies and market data, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and requirements and synthesizing requirements across platforms and functions. Examples of these are: firmwide ERP, treasury system, privatepublic company market data, cash management system, etc.Technology Committee Leadership: Design, implement and spearhead a new technology products committee, facilitating discussions and decision-making processes across key stakeholders to drive technology strategy and innovation. Serve as the primary liaison to drive consensus on how systems speak to one another, including supporting the development of maps indicating the flow of information and primary and ancillary use cases, across various departments, ensuring seamless and efficient technology adoption.Market and Peer Analysis: Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies and vendors, and intelligence on peer firms to inform strategic decisions and maintain a competitive edge.Stakeholder Collaboration, Advisory & Communication: Collaborate with key stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into effective technology solutions. Serve as an objective party, facilitating inter-system relationship decisions that yield the best outcome for the firm at large. Work closely with the CTO to message prioritization of technology initiatives across platforms and functions, helping to manage expectations across parties.Acquisition Integration Roadmap: Partner with acquisition targets upon folding into Blue Owl's operations to evaluate which best in class technology practices to adopt vs. which systems to retire to ensure the firm continues to develop a best of bread user experience while minimizing technical debt.Oversight of Vendor Management: Work closely with the Head of Corporate Operations & Strategy in the day-to-day management of our vendor management function, providing tactical support in setting and achieving strategic vision for this component of the team's goals.Vendor Optimization: Partner with Vendor Management to understand Blue Owl's procurement landscape, reduce technical redundancy and maximize the value from our highest performing vendor relationships, ensuring we are leveraging complementary products andor extending the life of existing products.SystemMarket Data Consolidation and Decommission: Lead the process in collaboration with procurement and IT on periodic review of systemsmarket dataservices to confirm or negate ongoing use case, validate redundancy and build consensus to keep, consolidate, or decommission. This is to ensure Blue Owl doesn't create a disproportional legacy techmarket dataservice debt.Qualifications:BABS degree required with 13+ years of experience as a management consultant, information technology or in a strategy role with a Private Equity firm or other Financial Services organizationStrong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to drive consensus, influence decision-making at all levels and drive cross functional projects and initiatives.Deep understanding of technology selection processes, RFP management, and technology integration.Adept at evaluating key considerations, bringing stakeholders to the table and influencing the conversation to drive consensus and clear paths next stepsExcellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.Superior organizational skills; ability to multi-task and flex with changing prioritiesProject management experience covering project inception through execution, implementation and closeout preferredProven ability to influence and collaborate without direct reporting relationshipsIt is expected that the base annual salary range for this New York City-based position will be $275,000 - $300,000. Actual salaries may vary based on factors, such as skill, experience, and qualification for the role. Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, based on factors such as individual and team performance.Blue Owl is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

Created: 2025-02-16