
This is an exceptional opportunity for a professional with deep experience building financial technology software supporting private funds and alternative investments. In close collaboration with Sales, Product, Operations and Services teams, you will strategically define and implement the high-level roadmap for Clearwater’s Private Funds product line.
The successful candidate willbe responsible forarticulating the overall vision for the asset class,definingand documenting requirements, creating JIRA stories, and working closely with development teams to implement solutions. You will own the full product lifecycle—from market problem definition to user personas, workflow documentation, and business requirements for key functional groups within the privatefundsdomain.
Responsibilities:
Market Management & Strategy
Understand the competitive landscape across private funds, including PE, hedge funds, credit, and real assets
Work with internal and external influencers to develop scalable, repeatable solutions for the private funds market
Partner with Sales teams toidentifyand prioritize high-value market opportunities
Regularly stay abreast of industry changes (e.g., LP/GP reporting standards, ILPA guidelines, regulatory shifts) and represent Clearwater as a subject matter expert
Product Development & Requirements
Collaborate with Solutions and Product teams to understand client workflows, current pain points, and how Clearwater’s platform can enhance their operations
Leverage private fundsexpertiseto design products and features within the Clearwater system, including NAV reporting, capital account management, waterfall calculations, and fund-level analytics
Develop detailed business requirements and manage JIRA stories throughout the development lifecycle
Partner with development teams on feature design and ensure engineers understand the business value behind each deliverable
Define product capabilities necessary to capture high-priority private funds opportunities
Work with product owners to turn capabilities into development-ready products that can be delivered to clients
Stakeholder Communication & Roadmap
Communicate the private funds product roadmap to both internal and external stakeholders on a regular cadence
Speak with internal stakeholders about use cases, client needs, and the future direction of the private funds offering
Work with Sales, Operations, and Client Services to prioritize development projects and incorporate them into the Clearwater roadmap, balancing new market growth with profitability and client experience
Assistin defining the private funds offering andworkwith Marketing to update collateral and positioning materials
Client Success & Enablement
Put client success at the center of every product decision, ensuring new features solve real operational challenges faced by GPs, fund administrators, and LPs
Measure the success of new feature releases through adoption metrics and client feedback loops
Train internal users and clientsonnew private funds product functionality
Develop a deep understanding of Clearwater’s platform and build recognizedexpertisein private fund structures and operations
Requirements:
8+ years of experience in solutions or product leadership roles in financial services or financial technology, with a clear focus on private funds and alternative investments (PE, hedge funds, private credit, real assets)
Proventrack recordof successfully building and delivering product solutions for complex fund structures, including capital call management, waterfall distributions, fee calculations, and accounting
Deep knowledge of industry challenges such as regional regulations (e.g.,ILPA, NAIC, BMA,Solvency), LP/GP dynamics, and fund administrator workflows
Demonstrated success putting client success at the heart of product decisions, with examples of translating institutional investor and fund manager needs into product requirements
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex fund mechanics to both technical and non-technical audiences
Strong ability to synthesize and communicate results of data analysis
Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, with experience managing cross-functional stakeholder relationships across Sales, Engineering, Operations, and Client Services

Clearwater Analytics (NYSE: CWAN) is transforming investment management with the industry’s most comprehensive cloud-native platform for institutional investors across global public and private markets. While legacy systems create risk, inefficiency, and data fragmentation, CWAN’s single-instance, multi-tenant architecture delivers real-time data and AI-driven insights throughout the investment lifecycle. The platform eliminates information silos by integrating portfolio management, trading, investment accounting, reconciliation, regulatory reporting, performance, compliance, and risk analytics in one unified system. Serving leading insurers, asset managers, hedge funds, banks, corporations, and governments, CWAN supports over $8.8 trillion in assets globally. Learn more at cwan.com.