Octus
Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. Since 2013, tens of thousands of professionals across hedge fund, investment banking, management consulting, and law firm verticals have come to rely on Octus to make better, faster, and more confident decisions in pace with the fast-moving credit markets.
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Working at Octus
Octus hires growth-minded innovators and trailblazers across the globe to drive our business and culture. Our core values – Action Oriented, Customer First Mindset, Effective Team Players, and Driven to Excel – define an organizational ethos that’s as high-performing as it is human. Among other perks, Octus employees enjoy competitive health benefits, matched 401k and pension plans, PTO, generous parental leave, gym subsidies, educational reimbursements for career development, recognition programs, pet-friendly offices (US only), and much more.
Role
Our Direct Data Services team sits at the hyper-growth intersection of product innovation, domain strategy, and direct client impact. Currently, our Head of Direct Data Services is the primary anchor for credit analyst expertise. We are seeking a Credit Workflow Strategist to partner with him to institutionalize, scale, and expand this deep workflow knowledge across our broader team and our AI product suite.
In this role, you will be deeply embedded in the complex day-to-day workflows of our clients—specifically within the leveraged finance (LevFin) credit markets—and tasked with translating those intricate analytical needs into robust, AI- and data-driven solutions.
Our team is based in our New York City office, and operates on a hybrid, 3 days/week schedule.
Credit Workflow Strategist responsibilities
- Partner with the Head of Direct Data Services to codify LevFin workflow intelligence, scaling and expanding solutions knowledge across the broader internal team and product suite
- Act as a client-facing domain expert and trusted advisor to build relationships and solve complex problems for buyside, sellside, and advisory accounts
- Investigate and map our users' complex financial processes (e.g., credit agreements, debt structures, and covenants) to embed Octus's AI platform seamlessly into their daily workflows
- Apply advanced AI and LLM tools to prototype, test, and design tailored workflows that optimize manual credit analysis and document-heavy research for our clients
- Coordinate with Octus’ product and engineering teams to translate real-world client feedback into platform enhancements and product features
What we look for
- Experience in the leveraged finance credit markets, either on the buyside (credit funds, direct lending, asset management), investment banking, or credit advisory side
- High proficiency and comfort with leading AI tools and LLMs, with a strong interest in prompt optimization and workflow automation
- Strong desire to be client-facing, with a proven ability to build partnerships and solve highly complex operational problems for institutional clients
- Organized, detail-oriented with the ability to prioritize and respond quickly; ability to navigate ambiguity and manage multiple ongoing workstreams
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
- Experience working directly with product, data, or engineering teams is a plus
At Octus, we consider a range of factors in connection with compensation decisions, including experience, skills, location, and our business needs and limitations. As a result, compensation may vary within and across similar roles and positions. Please note that the salary range information below is a good faith estimate for this position and actual compensation for any individual may fall outside this range if warranted by the circumstances applicable to that individual. If we identify a role that would be suitable for a broader range of skills and experience such that we would consider hiring at multiple levels then the range listed below may reflect that breadth.
The salary range estimate for this position is $135,000-$175,000.
The actual compensation will be at Octus’ sole discretion and will be determined by the aforementioned and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a performance-based annual bonus.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Octus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse work environment where all individuals are valued, respected, and treated fairly. We believe that diversity enriches our workplace and enhances our ability to innovate and succeed.
Skills Required
- Experience in the leveraged finance credit markets (buyside, investment banking, or credit advisory)
- High proficiency and comfort with leading AI tools and large language models, with interest in prompt optimization and workflow automation
- Proven ability to be client-facing, build partnerships, and solve complex operational problems for institutional clients
- Organized, detail-oriented with ability to prioritize, navigate ambiguity, and manage multiple ongoing workstreams
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Experience working directly with product, data, or engineering teams
Octus Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous paid time off is highlighted, combining vacation, sick time, and parental leave. Feedback suggests the policy is tenure-aware and provides a solid baseline for work-life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers, family medical leave, and amenities such as a Mother’s Room are described. Feedback suggests these offerings provide meaningful support for caregivers.
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible hybrid work approach is paired with home‑office reimbursements and commuter benefits. Feedback suggests these stipends and flexibility help accommodate different work setups and locations.
Octus Insights
What We Do
Octus, was founded in 2013 with a simple conviction: credit decisions deserve clarity, not chaos. Markets were fragmented. Intelligence was gated. Data lived in silos. Professionals were forced to stitch together incomplete pictures while the clock kept running. We built Octus to change that. Octus is the essential credit platform that tracks the entire credit lifecycle. From origination and underwriting to secondary trading, refinancing, distress and restructuring, we follow every development across leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, private credit and special situations. We structure millions of documents, surface risks, benchmark performance and deliver expert reporting and analysis in real time. What began as a newsroom fused with legal and financial expertise has evolved into a unified ecosystem. Octus brings together proprietary data, expert-driven intelligence and integrated workflow tools so credit professionals can analyze situations, uncover opportunities, manage portfolios, execute trades and stay compliant without ever leaving the platform. Insight and action finally live in one place. Today, nearly 40,000 professionals across the world’s leading banks, asset managers, CLO managers, law firms and advisors rely on Octus to move smarter and faster. They turn to us for breadth, depth and rigor forged over more than a decade, and for the speed, integration and precision that define the future of credit workflow. Our mission is direct and ambitious: end fragmentation, collapse the distance between intelligence and execution, and transform insight into impact. Because in credit, clarity isn’t just an advantage. It’s everything. Octus: Where credit becomes clear.
Why Work With Us
Octus is where real experts work together to cut through chaos and build clarity in credit. You feel your impact here. What you create shapes real decisions in the market. The problems matter. The people are sharp. If you want work that counts, this is the place.
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Octus Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Reorg has adopted a hybrid working policy. For non-remote employees located within a reasonable commuting distance to one of our offices, the requirement is to work from the office at least 2 days per week.
