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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

Additional Information

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.

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