--- title: 'Forward Deployed Investor at 9fin' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/forward-deployed-investor-9fin-london-3w8g0krfqc06' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-06' --- # Forward Deployed Investor at 9fin - **Company:** 9fin - **Location:** London, United Kingdom - **Employment:** full-time - **Posted:** 2026-08-18 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9fin/7dbed4f2-c857-4ec3-b1de-1cf885ae7ee4 ## Job description ## About 9fin 9fin is the AI platform powering global debt markets — the world’s largest asset class at over $145 trillion. Debt markets are vast, global, and mission-critical, yet still run on fragmented data, PDFs, and manual workflows. 9fin replaces this broken infrastructure with a single platform that centralises proprietary credit data, deep analysis, and high-value workflows across global markets. Today, 9fin powers teams at 300+ blue-chip institutions worldwide, including global banks, asset managers, private equity firms, law firms, and advisors. The business is scaling at exceptional speed, with rapid expansion in the US and best-in-class retention driven by deep workflow adoption. We’re at a defining inflection point. With proven product-market fit and strong, global market pull, 9fin is accelerating toward becoming the category-defining platform for debt markets worldwide. ## THE ROLE 9fin's buy-side clients are the capital behind the credit markets. Credit funds, CLO managers, private credit platforms, and distressed investors run research, underwriting, portfolio monitoring, and relative value workflows that are deep and specialised. They are actively excited about what AI can unlock. Our job is to make that potential real inside their investment teams. The Forward Deployed Investor is the person who does it. You are a domain expert who has done the work yourself, and you can credibly sit across the table from a portfolio manager, a private credit underwriter, or a distressed analyst and say: "Here is how this changes the way you invest." You will work with 9fin's most strategic buy-side clients, drive deep adoption of our existing AI capabilities across the investment process, and become a critical voice in shaping what we build next. Every client engagement is a source of product intelligence. The insights you bring back from the front line will directly influence 9fin's AI product roadmap and sharpen how we win the next generation of buy-side accounts. ## WHAT YOU WILL DO - Map investment workflows and find the highest-value insertion points. Embed with client teams to document how sourcing, screening, underwriting, credit committee preparation, portfolio monitoring, and relative value work actually gets done end-to-end. Identify the three to five places where 9fin's AI can materially change the workflow. Co-author adoption success criteria with the client, tied to their investment outcomes. - Build 9fin's AI into those workflows. Take the identified insertion points and build them out using 9fin's toolkit: in-platform capabilities, MCP integrations, agents, and future capabilities as they ship. Weighted by workflow depth, not count. Iterate based on real usage behaviour, not intended usage. - Drive adoption at your served accounts. Onboard named users across investment, research, and risk. Run enablement sessions with power users, identify and support champions inside the client. Monitor active usage and address dormant seats before they become churn signals. Review adoption monthly with client champions and quarterly with the CIO, head of research, or equivalent sponsor. - Feed the field back into 9fin. Every deployment produces structured intelligence, fed to two consumers. First, product and engineering: prioritised requests tied to specific account and workflow context, patterns extracted across deployments. Second, the wider GTM cycle: case studies, demo assets, workflow evidence, and competitive intelligence that sharpen the next GTM cycle. - Spot expansion. Identify opportunities inside served accounts for new users, new use cases, new departments, or new products. Document with context and hand to Account Management for commercial follow-up. ## WHAT YOU BRING 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. ## WHY JOIN 9FIN - 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. ## OUR BENEFITS We’re a scaling start up, and we enjoy sharing our success, when the company succeeds, we always reinvest that in our people. We also offer huge amounts of responsibility, an abundance of opportunity for growth and a platform to truly excel. Financial & Insurance - 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 Time off - 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 Training & Culture - Professional learning and development budget - Bi-annual team socials - Summer and Winter company social events 9fin is an equal opportunities employer 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. ## About 9fin ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: 9fin is the AI-native intelligence platform that provides data, analytics, news, and AI-powered workflows for global debt capital markets. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C) - **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom - **Founded**: 2016 - **Founders**: Steven Hunter (CEO) and Hussam El-Sheikh (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Technology (Fintech), Debt Capital Markets, AI/Data Analytics - **Target customers**: B2B, specifically investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, law firms, private credit funds, and advisory firms. - **Mission or purpose statement**: To become the number one platform for debt markets globally, redefining how debt markets are understood and acted on by credit teams. ## Products & Services - **9fin Platform**: A unified platform combining breaking news from expert reporters, structured data and analytics, and AI-powered workflows. It covers leveraged finance, distressed debt, CLOs, private credit, ABF, and investment grade across North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific. - **9fin AI (AI Chat & Research Grid)**: Launched in June 2026, these tools help credit professionals move from question to conviction faster. AI Chat provides cited answers to complex credit questions in seconds. Research Grid enables users to build structured company comparisons in minutes using pre-defined or custom questions. Every output is grounded in proprietary debt market data and linked to source material. [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: $1.3 billion (as of Series C fundraise in March 2026) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/9fin) - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised to date: $253.95M [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/9fin) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not all investors are publicly listed, but the company has raised over $250M across Series A, B, and C rounds. - **Growth Signals**: - In June 2026, launched two major AI tools (AI Chat and Research Grid) [prnewswire.co.uk](https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/9fin-launches-next-generation-of-ai-tools-for-debt-capital-markets-302794326.html) - Powers credit teams at 300+ leading global institutions [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/about) - Employs 350+ people globally [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/about) - Scaled globally with offices in London, New York, Hong Kong, and Belfast [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/about) ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-native foundation**: Built from the ground up with a decade of proprietary debt market data powering its AI, creating a strong moat. [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/about) - **Deep domain expertise**: Co-founders have backgrounds in investment banking (J.P. Morgan) and engineering (Deutsche Bank), and the platform is calibrated by in-house credit, distressed, and legal analysts with decades of experience. [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/about) - **Comprehensive data**: Unifies public, private, and distressed credit data in a single connected view, replacing multiple legacy tools. [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/) - **Trusted by the market**: Used by 80% of trading desks among top-tier institutions. [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/) ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities and direction for growth**: Scaling globally and deepening the AI platform. The company is building "credit-specific AI agents that proactively monitor, draft and alert," moving from a source of intelligence to the platform where credit professionals get work done. [prnewswire.co.uk](https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/9fin-launches-next-generation-of-ai-tools-for-debt-capital-markets-302794326.html) ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: Emphasizes "true flexibility," "a culture of care," and the opportunity to "build at the edge" with the latest AI tools. The company values ambition and offers real opportunities to make an impact. [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/careers) - **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Offers a flexible work model: "Work from home, or from one of our great offices around the world. We encourage time with your team, while giving you the flexibility when you need it." [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/careers) - **Notable perks or engineering culture**: - Enhanced parental leave, flexible hours, and sabbaticals. [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/careers) - Engineers, product, and AI teams own the full experience, from data architecture to interface, working closely with customers. [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/careers) - High growth trajectory with global scaling, providing real career advancement opportunities. [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/careers) ## Sources 1. [9fin Careers Page](https://www.9fin.com/careers) 2. [9fin About Page](https://www.9fin.com/about) 3. [9fin Homepage](https://www.9fin.com/) 4. [CB Insights Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/9fin) 5. [PRNewswire - 9fin Launches Next Generation AI Tools](https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/9fin-launches-next-generation-of-ai-tools-for-debt-capital-markets-302794326.html) 6. 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