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About the Role
Athene is building the next generation of its retirement solutions business, expanding how we serve distribution partners and deliver differentiated financial solutions to investors. This role will lead the strategy, structuring, validation, and development of innovative financial products for RIA, wealth management, and self-directed investor markets.
Responsibilities
- Lead product strategy for new wealth management channels, identifying unmet investor and advisor needs, evaluating market opportunities, and developing differentiated financial solutions.
- Design and evaluate sophisticated financial product structures, applying knowledge of annuities, capital markets, derivatives, investment products, and financial guarantees.
- Assess trade-offs across investor outcomes, risk, economics, and regulatory considerations.
- Engage directly with wealth management firms, investment platforms, and distribution partners to validate demand, co-develop solutions, and establish commercial viability.
- Own the product lifecycle from concept through approval and launch, translating product designs into specifications and leading cross-functional execution.
- Develop business cases and product recommendations for senior executives, leveraging Athene and Apollo's broader capabilities to advance innovative solutions and long-term growth opportunities.
- Champion data-driven decision-making, emerging technologies, and responsible AI-enabled capabilities to accelerate market insights, evaluate product opportunities, and improve development processes.
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant experience in financial services, including financial product strategy, structuring, development, commercialization, or relevant experience preferred.
- Deep understanding of annuity and retirement products, including product structures, economics, regulatory considerations, and wealth management distribution dynamics.
- Demonstrated success developing and launching complex financial products, with strong knowledge of capital markets, investment structures, derivatives, financial guarantees, and risk management.
- Strong commercial judgment and experience collaborating with wealth management firms, investment platforms, or other distribution partners to translate market needs into viable financial solutions.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead complex cross-functional initiatives through formal or informal leadership, combining critical thinking, creativity, adaptability, a bias for action, and an understanding of how AI can responsibly enhance analysis and execution.
Skills
- Annuity and retirement products
- Capital markets
- Derivatives
- Investment products
- Financial guarantees
- Risk management
- AI
- Critical thinking
- Creativity
- Adaptability
- Bias for action
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
- CFA, actuarial credentials, or an advanced degree preferred
About the Company
- Athene is driven to do more for its customers and the financial professionals who offer its products.
- Athene offers more than the basics to create an inclusive and dynamic work environment.
- Athene is building the next generation of its retirement solutions business.
- Athene and Apollo have strategic growth initiatives.
- Athene is a Military Friendly Employer.
- Athene is committed to inclusion.
Equal Opportunity
- Athene is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.