Position OverviewApollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager providing clients with excess return across the risk-reward spectrum through yield, hybrid, and equity strategies.Apollo's Alternative Asset Trading (AAT) group sits within Apollo Capital Solutions (ACS) and is building the foundational infrastructure for the private credit market. Public and private credit markets are converging, the $40T+ private credit market is scaling rapidly, yet the data, settlement, and workflow infrastructure underpinning it remains manual and fragmented. Apollo is leading the effort to change that.We are seeking a senior leader to scale Apollo's market structure initiatives and commercialize the platform across the private credit ecosystem. This is a market structure and business-building role operating at the intersection of strategic partnerships, commercial execution, and operational buildout. The role reports to senior ACS leadership and interfaces broadly across Apollo's investment, trading, operations, legal, compliance, and senior management teams.The role reports to senior ACS leadership and interfaces with Apollo's investment teams, trading desks, operations, legal, compliance, investor relations, regulatory affairs, and senior management.<h3></h3>Primary ResponsibilitiesICE Private Credit Intelligence – Platform Ownership<ul><li>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</li><li>Build and manage the document supply pipeline with centralized, consistent, automated delivery of deal documents to ICE for data extraction</li><li>Manage the transition of a securities master evolution from manual data entry to AI-assisted data validation reframing the workflow improvement role</li></ul>Broader Market Structure Initiatives<ul><li>Lead Apollo's market structure strategy across the full stack of infrastructure required for private credit to scale; data standardization (ICE), index development, secondary trading infrastructure, and digital transfer and settlement</li><li>Contribute to the continued evolution of Apollo's secondary trading capabilities, ensuring that data infrastructure, pricing transparency, and settlement innovation reinforce each other</li></ul>Internal Stakeholder Management<ul><li>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</li><li>Coordinate across trading, portfolio management, legal, compliance, operations, technology, investor relations, and insurance (Athene) teams recognizing that internal adoption across these constituencies is as critical as external enrollment</li><li>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</li></ul>Qualifications &amp; Experience<ul><li>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</li><li>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</li><li>Demonstrated track record of building something from zero to one: a new business line, platform, or operational capability. This is a buildout role, not a maintenance role</li><li>Strong commercial instinct with experience designing business models, incentive structures, or go-to-market strategies; comfort owning a P&amp;L and managing the transition from investment phase to revenue generation</li><li>Deep understanding of private credit operational mechanics: assignment agreements, settlement workflows, agent processes, and the full lifecycle from origination through secondary transfer and servicing</li><li>Ability to hold external partners accountable while delivering on internal commitments</li><li>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</li><li>Experience with market structure development or infrastructure buildouts in adjacent asset classes (e.g., syndicated loans, CLOs, ABS); familiarity with LSTA protocols, ClearPar, LXID/CUSIP infrastructure, or similar market utilities strongly preferred</li><li>Familiarity with data licensing and information services business models in financial markets</li><li>Entrepreneurial, collaborative, and solutions-oriented with strong communication skills and high execution discipline; comfortable operating with significant ambiguity in a fast-moving environment</li></ul><h3></h3>About ApolloApollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade credit to private equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. As of September 30th, 2025, Apollo had approximately $840 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit www.apollo.com.<h3></h3>Our Purpose &amp; Core ValuesOur clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be:<ul><li>The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.</li><li>The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.</li><li>A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.</li></ul>We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:<ul><li>Outperform expectations</li><li>Challenge Convention</li><li>Champion Opportunity</li><li>Lead responsibly</li><li>Drive collaboration</li></ul>As One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.<h3></h3>Our BenefitsApollo relies on its people to keep it a leader in alternative investment management, and the firm's benefit programs are crafted to offer meaningful coverage for both you and your family.Pay Range$500,000Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates) is committed to championing opportunity.The firm and its affiliates comply with applicable discrimination and equal opportunities legislation in all of its jurisdictions and do not discriminate in employment or recruitment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.The contents of the qualifications and experience section of this job description are a guideline only. If an applicant can otherwise demonstrate their suitability for the role they will be considered.The base salary range for this position is listed above. This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus based on personal, team, and Firm performance. Compensation ranges are based on several factors including 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.

<h5>Apollo aims to be a leading provider of flexible and long-duration capital enabling the energy transition. </h5>Apollo’s Sustainable Investing Platform leverages our deep experience across asset classes to deploy capital in key sectors driving the energy transition and decarbonization. The scale and breadth of this opportunity is significant, and across asset classes, Apollo sees the opportunity to deploy, commit, or arrange more than $100 billion by 2030.Since 2022, Apollo-managed funds have deployed, committed or arranged over $59 billion¹ into energy transition, infrastructure and sustainability-related investments, supporting companies and projects across infrastructure, wind, solar, storage and renewable fuels, as well as a wide range of technologies to facilitate decarbonization. Apollo has also played an active role in helping finance the transformation of certain traditional energy companies.

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

Position OverviewApollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager providing clients with excess return across the risk-reward spectrum through yield, hybrid, and equity strategies.Apollo's Alternative Asset Trading (AAT) group sits within Apollo Capital Solutions (ACS) and is building the foundational infrastructure for the private credit market. Public and private credit markets are converging, the $40T+ private credit market is scaling rapidly, yet the data, settlement, and workflow infrastructure underpinning it remains manual and fragmented. Apollo is leading the effort to change that.We are seeking a senior leader to scale Apollo's market structure initiatives and commercialize the platform across the private credit ecosystem. This is a market structure and business-building role operating at the intersection of strategic partnerships, commercial execution, and operational buildout. The role reports to senior ACS leadership and interfaces broadly across Apollo's investment, trading, operations, legal, compliance, and senior management teams.The role reports to senior ACS leadership and interfaces with Apollo's investment teams, trading desks, operations, legal, compliance, investor relations, regulatory affairs, and senior management.<h3></h3>Primary ResponsibilitiesICE Private Credit Intelligence – Platform Ownership<ul><li>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</li><li>Build and manage the document supply pipeline with centralized, consistent, automated delivery of deal documents to ICE for data extraction</li><li>Manage the transition of a securities master evolution from manual data entry to AI-assisted data validation reframing the workflow improvement role</li></ul>Broader Market Structure Initiatives<ul><li>Lead Apollo's market structure strategy across the full stack of infrastructure required for private credit to scale; data standardization (ICE), index development, secondary trading infrastructure, and digital transfer and settlement</li><li>Contribute to the continued evolution of Apollo's secondary trading capabilities, ensuring that data infrastructure, pricing transparency, and settlement innovation reinforce each other</li></ul>Internal Stakeholder Management<ul><li>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</li><li>Coordinate across trading, portfolio management, legal, compliance, operations, technology, investor relations, and insurance (Athene) teams recognizing that internal adoption across these constituencies is as critical as external enrollment</li><li>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</li></ul>Qualifications &amp; Experience<ul><li>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</li><li>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</li><li>Demonstrated track record of building something from zero to one: a new business line, platform, or operational capability. This is a buildout role, not a maintenance role</li><li>Strong commercial instinct with experience designing business models, incentive structures, or go-to-market strategies; comfort owning a P&amp;L and managing the transition from investment phase to revenue generation</li><li>Deep understanding of private credit operational mechanics: assignment agreements, settlement workflows, agent processes, and the full lifecycle from origination through secondary transfer and servicing</li><li>Ability to hold external partners accountable while delivering on internal commitments</li><li>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</li><li>Experience with market structure development or infrastructure buildouts in adjacent asset classes (e.g., syndicated loans, CLOs, ABS); familiarity with LSTA protocols, ClearPar, LXID/CUSIP infrastructure, or similar market utilities strongly preferred</li><li>Familiarity with data licensing and information services business models in financial markets</li><li>Entrepreneurial, collaborative, and solutions-oriented with strong communication skills and high execution discipline; comfortable operating with significant ambiguity in a fast-moving environment</li></ul><h3></h3>About ApolloApollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade credit to private equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. As of September 30th, 2025, Apollo had approximately $840 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit www.apollo.com.<h3></h3>Our Purpose &amp; Core ValuesOur clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be:<ul><li>The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.</li><li>The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.</li><li>A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.</li></ul>We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:<ul><li>Outperform expectations</li><li>Challenge Convention</li><li>Champion Opportunity</li><li>Lead responsibly</li><li>Drive collaboration</li></ul>As One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.<h3></h3>Our BenefitsApollo relies on its people to keep it a leader in alternative investment management, and the firm's benefit programs are crafted to offer meaningful coverage for both you and your family.Pay Range$500,000Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates) is committed to championing opportunity.The firm and its affiliates comply with applicable discrimination and equal opportunities legislation in all of its jurisdictions and do not discriminate in employment or recruitment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.The contents of the qualifications and experience section of this job description are a guideline only. If an applicant can otherwise demonstrate their suitability for the role they will be considered.The base salary range for this position is listed above. This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus based on personal, team, and Firm performance. Compensation ranges are based on several factors including 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.

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

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