Forward Deployed Investor

You are a subject matter expert with 3+ years of practitioner experience at an asset manager, credit fund, or insurer, with fluency across end-to-end investment workflows in your area, not just the data those workflows consume. Specifically, in one or more of the following:

Credit portfolio management and research. High yield, leveraged loan, or multi-strategy credit investing, covering screening, underwriting, credit committee process, and ongoing portfolio monitoring

Private credit and direct lending. Origination, underwriting, documentation review, or portfolio monitoring at a private credit or direct lending platform

CLO investing. CLO management, warehouse and portfolio construction, or CLO debt and equity tranche investing

Distressed and special situations. Stressed and distressed credit analysis, restructuring and process tracking, documentation and covenant analysis, or capital structure work

Buy-side transformation, data, or research technology functions. Investment data, quantitative or systematic credit research, chief data office, digital transformation, or AI strategy roles where you have led or contributed to AI and workflow transformation projects specifically in credit investing

Beyond your domain expertise, you are:

Demonstrably interested in technology applied to your domain. For example: participation in an internal AI, data, or research technology working group; external vendor champion or evaluation lead for domain tech. You may have already moved to a technology company focused on credit markets.

Familiar with and hands-on with modern domain tooling. Direct user experience of Rogo, Hebbia, AlphaSense, Octus, or comparable AI-native platforms in your workflow. You can speak from experience about what works, what doesn't, and why.

Comfortable operating inside confidential investment processes. You will sit close to live pipelines, positions, and internal research. You are disciplined about what does and does not travel between accounts, and clients trust you quickly because of it.

A strong communicator across styles and audiences. Extremely comfortable with the analysts who will be the day-to-day platform users. Highly credible with portfolio managers, heads of research, and CIOs. Strong writing and in-person skills. Able to flex style for technical and business audiences.

Highly collaborative across a broad internal network. The function operates in close partnership with GTM, Product, Engineering, and other 9fin teams. You are energised by cross-functional work, you bring people with you rather than working around them, and you know how to translate what you are learning in the field into inputs that other teams can act on.

Outcome-oriented. You measure success by whether clients are actually using the platform differently, not by how many meetings you held or decks you delivered.

Category leadership. 9fin is the reference platform for debt capital markets data and AI. Buy-side clients use us because there is no comparable alternative.

A genuine domain-expert role. You bring credit investing expertise; we back you with the platform, the product team, and the mandate to make it real inside client organisations.

Direct influence on the product. Field intelligence from your deployments feeds the product roadmap. What you learn on the ground shapes what 9fin builds next.

Series C stage, growing fast. Small enough that your work is visible, large enough to have the platform and customer base ready for real deployment.

Competitive Salary

Equity options

Pension (your minimum contributions are 4% with 9fin matching up to 7%)

Private Medical Insurance

Paid sick leave with Income Protection for long periods of illness

Group Life Assurance

Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes

25 holiday days per year

Local public holidays (with the ability to exchange them for alternative days)

Hybrid working model, to allow you the flexibility to decide how, where and when you do your best work

Work abroad for up to 3 months a year

1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service

Enhanced parental leave & flexible working arrangements available

Professional learning and development budget

Bi-annual team socials

Summer and Winter company social events

At 9fin we are dedicated to building and promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can reach their full potential and truly belong. We recognize that building diverse teams enables a more creative and productive environment. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be who we’re looking for — either for this role, or perhaps another.