Vice President, Product Management and Investor Relations (Private Equity)

Job description

Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry. Job Description Position Overview The Vice President will be a key member of the Private Equity Product Management and Investor Relations team, helping shape and execute the product management, fundraising and investor relations activities across Ares Private Equity strategies. The role sits at the center of fundraising execution, strategic content development, LP communications and investor engagement, ensuring the Private Equity group presents a clear, differentiated and technically rigorous view of its strategies, performance and value creation to the market and its investor base. This role requires a polished private markets professional who combines investment fluency, strong project management, commercial judgment and exceptional analytical and communications skills to manage high-stakes deliverables in a fast-moving environment. The successful candidate will be a trusted partner to the senior leadership of the Private Equity group, the broader PE investment team and the Ares relationship management team, with the maturity to help drive fundraising priorities, ongoing and ad hoc investor servicing support of sophisticated LPs and represent the business credibly both internally and externally. Key Responsibilities Help Drive Fundraising and Investor Engagement: Play a central role in advancing fundraising and investor relations priorities by helping shape fundraising campaign strategies, preparing for LP and prospect meetings, developing targeted follow-up materials, coordinating diligence workstreams and ensuring investors receive thoughtful, timely and commercially effective responses. Own the Private Equity Product Narrative: Lead the development and ongoing refinement of the core narrative for Ares Private Equity strategies, translating investment philosophy, portfolio construction, performance drivers, value creation priorities and market positioning into compelling, differentiated messaging for investors. Lead Strategic Investor Content: Drive the creation of high-caliber fundraising and investor materials, including pitchbooks, private placement memoranda, due diligence questionnaires, quarterly communications, case studies, white papers, social media posts and bespoke LP deliverables. Serve as the Content Quarterback: Set the standard for quality, consistency and precision across investor-facing materials, ensuring content is analytically sound, commercially sharp, technically accurate and appropriately tailored for sophisticated investors. Translate Investment and Portfolio Insights: Develop a deep command of strategy performance, portfolio company developments, fund-level considerations, co-investment activity, competitive positioning and broader market themes, and convert those inputs into crisp, persuasive, investor-ready content. Advance Fundraising and Diligence Readiness: Anticipate investor questions, identify messaging gaps, prepare senior leaders for investor interactions and lead the content and diligence workstreams required to support active fundraising, continuation vehicles, co-investment processes and strategic client engagement. Identifying and Implementing Process Improvements: Strengthen the team’s operating model by improving processes, refining reporting and diligence templates, and identifying effective ways to leverage data, technology and AI to raise the quality, consistency and efficiency of product management deliverables. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree required, with a strong academic record. Approximately 7+ years of relevant experience industry experience with 2-4+ years in private markets investor relations, product management, fundraising, or placement agent advisory. Experience at a leading private equity firm, alternative asset manager, placement agent, investment bank, institutional consultant or other top-tier financial services platform. Demonstrated private equity or broader private markets fluency, including the ability to understand and articulate investment strategy, portfolio performance, value creation, market environment and fund-level considerations. Experience developing, drafting or reviewing investor materials such as DDQs, PPMs, pitch books, quarterly reports, investor letters, white papers or other investor communications. Strong analytical capability and facility with financial, operating and performance information; high proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint, Word and AI tools. General Requirements Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex investment content into polished, precise and institutionally credible messaging. Commercial judgment, intellectual rigor and professional presence to interact effectively with investment professionals, senior firm leadership, investors and cross-functional partners. Proven ability to manage multiple senior stakeholders, high-priority deliverables and compressed timelines with ownership, urgency and sound judgment. Outstanding attention to detail and consistently high standards for accuracy, responsiveness, organization and execution quality. Collaborative team orientation with the ability to lead workstreams independently while contributing effectively within a lean, high-performing team. Series 7, Series 63 and SIE licenses, or ability to obtain following hire. Reporting Relationships Partner, Head of Product Management and Investor Relations for Opportunistic Credit and Private Equity Compensation The anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below. Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance-based bonus. Note, the range takes into account a broad spectrum of qualifications, including, but not limited to, years of relevant work experience, education, and other relevant qualifications specific to the role. $180,000 - $225,000 The firm also offers robust Benefits offerings. Ares U.S. Core Benefits include Comprehensive Medical/Rx, Dental and Vision plans; 401(k) program with company match; Flexible Savings Accounts (FSA); Healthcare Savings Accounts (HSA) with company contribution; Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance; Long-Term Disability (LTD) and Short-Term Disability (STD) insurance; Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Commuter Benefits plan for parking and transit. Ares offers a number of additional benefits including access to a world-class medical advisory team, a mental health app that includes coaching, therapy and psychiatry, a mindfulness and wellbeing app, financial wellness benefit that includes access to a financial advisor, new parent leave, reproductive and adoption assistance, emergency backup care, matching gift program, education sponsorship program, and much more. There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.