Vice President, Product Management and Investor Relations (Private Equity)
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.
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.
- Prowed 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.
Reporting Relationships
The Vice President will report to the Head of Private Equity Product Management and Investor Relations.
Compensation
The anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below. Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance-based bonus.
- $180,000 - $225,000
Ares U.S. Core Benefits
- 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.
Additional Benefits
- Access to a world-class medical advisory team,
- Mental health app that includes coaching, therapy and psychiatry,
- 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.